Introducing the organizations and management approaches affecting the client and working area of the architect, with their technical-economical-political and social properties; Defining management duty of the architect in architectural practice as manager-designer, manager-constructor and project manager in office/business/project management; Making architects, who are going to take managerial roles, able to realize and use the approaches and methods in order to direct project design towards defined cost-time-quality objectives and increase managerial effectiveness.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
It is required to attend 70% of the courses, those who did not attend 70% of the lectures can not take final exam.
Instructor(s)
Professor Esin KASAPOĞLU
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Tuesday, 9:00-10:45, Ataköy Campus 1C-12-14
Office Hour(s)
Prof.Dr. Esin Kasapoğlu; due to request; 2.C.12
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture, practice by case study and exam.
Principle Sources
Bennett, F. L. (2003) The Management of Construction. Butterworth-Heinemann.
Bielefeld B. (2013) Basics Project Management Architecture. Birkhauser
Barrie, D. S., Paulson, B. C. (1992) Professional Construction Management. McGraw-Hill International Editions
Sears, S. K., Sears, G. A., Clough, R. H. (2008). Construction Project Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Jaggar, A., Ross, A., Smith, J., Love, P. (2002). Building Design Cost Management. Blackwell Science.
Barutçugil, İ. S. (1986). İnşaat Yönetimi. İnkılap Kitabevi. –
Hendrickson, C. (2008). Project Management for Construction. http://pmbook.ce.cmu.edu
Other Sources
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction of course: Aim - content - method; Introduction to Construction Management; Leadership role of architect in design and construction
Oral presentation
2. Week
Management and organization concepts,
Oral presentation
3. Week
Historical account of management
Oral presentation
4. Week
Construction sector; Building production (construction) projects
Oral presentation/case study
5. Week
Time, cost and resource planning and control in building production (construction) projects
Oral presentation
6. Week
Time, cost and resource planning and control in building production (construction) projects
Case study
7. Week
Technical, organizational and economical feasibility studies in building production (construction) projects
Oral presentation
8. Week
Technical, organizational and economical feasibility studies in building production (construction) projects
Case study
9. Week
Mid-term exam
Exam
10. Week
Building production (construction) projects: Contractor Selection types
Oral presentation
11. Week
Building production (construction) projects: Contract types
Oral presentation
12. Week
Building production (construction) projects:Contract types and Specification types
Oral presentation
13. Week
Building production (construction) projects: Organizational models (project delivery systems)
Oral presentation
14. Week
Building production (construction) projects: Organizational models (project delivery systems)
Oral presentation
15. Week
16. Week
Final exam
Exam
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Studio work
3
20
Final Exam
1
50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Critical Thinking: Ability to inquire, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions.
PO-2
Communication: Ability to use appropriate representational media to transmit essential formal elements at design process.
PO-3
Investigation: Ability to gather, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within design processes.
PO-4
Design: Ability to reproduce the design information in the creative thinking process, to reach new and original results through universal design principles such as sustainability and accessibility.
PO-5
World Architecture: Understanding world architecture in terms of their historical, geographical and global factors.
PO-6
Local Architecture / Cultural Diversity: Understanding the architectural formations and samples of a geography through its historical and cultural context. Understanding the divergent canons of cultural values, behavioral, social and spatial patterns.
PO-7
Cultural Heritage and Conservation: Understanding of conservation discourses and methods, and the subjects of cultural heritage, conservation awareness, environmental concerns and ethical responsibility.
PO-8
Sustainability: Ability to design projects by using the information regarding the natural and built environment to reduce the undesirable environmental impacts on future generations through means.
PO-9
Social Responsibility: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility about protecting the commonweal, having respect for historical/cultural and natural resources and improving the life quality.
PO-10
Nature and Human: Understanding of the relationship between human, the natural environment and the design of the built environment.
PO-11
Geographical Conditions: Understanding the relationships of site selection, settlement and building design by considering the cultural, economical and social properties as well as the natural characteristics such as soil, topography, vegetation and watershed.
PO-12
Life Safety: Understanding the basic principles of security and life-safety systems in the conditions of natural disasters, fire, etc. through building and environment scales.
PO-13
Structural Systems: Understanding of the basic principles of structural behavior in withstanding gravity and lateral forces and the evolution, range, and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-14
Environmental Systems: Understanding the principles of physical environmental systems’ design such as lighting, acoustics, climatization and the use of appropriate performance assessment tools.
PO-15
Building Envelope Systems: Understanding of the basic principles involved in the appropriate application of building envelope systems and associated assemblies.
PO-16
Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic design principles of building service systems such as plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, and fire protection systems.
PO-17
Building Materials and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles utilized in the appropriate selection of construction materials, products, components and assemblies, based on their inherent characteristics and performance, including their environmental impact and reuse.
PO-18
Integration of Building Service Systems: The ability of assessing, selecting and integrating the structural, environmental, security, envelope and service systems of the buildings for building design.
PO-19
Programming and Evaluation: Ability to prepare and evaluate an architectural project program by considering the public benefits in regards of client and user needs, appropriate examplers, space and equipment requirements, financial limitations, site conditions, relevant codes, laws and design principles.
PO-20
Comprehensive Project Development: Ability to produce a comprehensive architectural project that demonstrates to make design decisions across various scales.
PO-21
Considering Building Costs: Understanding the fundamentals of building construction and use costs.
PO-22
Architect-Client Relationship: Understanding of the responsibility of the architect to elicit, understand, and reconcile the needs of the client, owner, user groups, and the public and community domains.
PO-23
Collaboration: Ability to work in collaboration with others and in multidisciplinary teams to successfully complete design projects.
PO-24
Project Management: Understanding of the methods for competing for commissions, selecting consultants and assembling teams, and recommending project delivery methods.
PO-25
Practice Management: Understanding the basic principles in the architectural practice processes like financial management, business planning, quality management, risk management, discussion and reconciliation.
PO-26
Leadership: Understanding of the techniques and skills architects use to work collaboratively in the building design and construction process and on environmental, social, and aesthetic issues in their communities.
PO-27
Legal Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility to the public and the client as determined by regulations and legal considerations involving the practice of architecture.
PO-28
Professional Practice: Understanding and fulfillment of employer and intern rights and responsibilities for development of profession.
PO-29
Ethics of Profession: Understanding of the ethical issues involved in profession regarding social, political and cultural issues in architectural design and practice.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Having theoretical and practical knowledge regarding the basic principles of project management which supports architecture, reducing and improving risks and leadership.
LO-2
Learning the leadership role of the architect in the begining, design and design development processes.
LO-3
Identifying the requirenments of the architect, client, owner and user, analyzing them, developing solution alternatives.
LO-4
Having theoretical and practical knowledge regarding to contracting and labor contracts.
LO-5
Having theoretical and practical knowledge regarding to assignment, personnel management, specifying consultants and methods of project distribution.
LO-6
Having theoretical and practical knowledge regarding to basic principles about marketing and financial management which support the architecture profession.
LO-7
Having theoretical and practical knowledge regarding to workplanning wich supports the architecture profession and being able to plan the work.
LO-8
preparing the full and right documentation of the construction process which belongs to the Project for workplanning.
