- BLD 108 - Construction Leadership and Motivation
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Includes the role of the construction supervisor; helping employees perform better; training, motivating and leading others; teams and team building; leadership skills in action. This course does not meet general education requirements.
Lecture 2 hours per week.
2 credits
- BLD 109 - Understanding and Managing Project Costs
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Includes construction estimates, who controls project costs, labor cost control, reporting and analyzing actual costs, loss prevention, cost control strategies, and post-project evaluation.
Lecture 2 hours per week.
2 credits
- BLD 116 - Communication for Construction Supervisors
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Includes listening, understanding, communicating and negotiating within all organizational levels of the construction industry; assisting others in communicating clearly; getting the point across with the difficult person. This course is not intended to satisfy general education requirements.
Lecture 2 hours per week.
2 credits
- BLD 117 - Contract Documents and Construction Law
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Covers contractual relationships; contract forms and documents; managing general conditions; good documentation processes; differing site conditions; time impacts; negotiation of resolutions.
Lecture 2-3 hours per week.
2-3 credits
- BLD 118 - Problem Solving and Decision Making
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Covers the problem identification process; solving human performance problems; the decision-making process; labor costs and subcontractors; problem prevention; risk, emergencies and crisis.
Lecture 2 hours per week.
2 credits
- BLD 119 - Accident Prevention and Loss Control
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Presents safety communication and motivation; project and traffic control; selection of methods and equipment to prevent losses; delegating responsibility and equipment maintenance; government safety regulations and inspections.
Lecture 2 hours per week.
2 credits
- BLD 144 - Plumbing Code and Certification Preparation
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Teaches the use of the plumbing code standard book (BOCA), references standards, the reading and use of charts and tables, and preparation for the journeyman's certification and the cross-connection control certification test.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- BLD 188 - Introduction to Construction Supervision
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Teaches an appreciation for the demanding job of constuction supervision, covering such topics as scheduling, motivation, poor and subordinate relations, and working with other trades.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- BLD 195 - Topics In
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Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.
May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- BLD 199 - Supervised Study
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Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.
May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- BLD 215 - OSHA 30 Construction Safety
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Covers all topics included in the OSHA 30-hour course. Prerequisite: OSHA 10 Certification.
Lecture 2 hours per week.
2 credits
- BLD 216 - Productivity Improvement for the Construction Manager
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Covers skills for the effective supervisor; personnel management; quantifying lost labor productivity; record keeping, control, changes and defect analysis; improving productivity with new technology. Prerequisite:
BLD 247 and
BLD 109.
Lecture 2 hours per week.
2 credits
- BLD 217 - Managing the Construction Project
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Introduces project delivery systems; managing and understanding risk; planning the work; working the plan; managing methods and materials; understanding finances; working with project partners; understanding people involved in the process. Prerequisites:
BLD 247 and
BLD 109.
Lecture 2 hours per week.
2 credits
- BLD 247 - Construction Planning and Scheduling
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Introduces principles of planning and scheduling of a construction project. Includes sequence of events and processes on a construction site. Studies scheduling techniques including the critical path method.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
