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Course Catalog 1999/2000


Civil and Mining Engineering

ABX004 12.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
QIII-IV

LANGUAGE:English/Swedish

EXAMINER
B Johansson Prof


PREREQUISITES
Basic courses and other obligatory courses for the Civil Engineering Programme, fulfilled job training period.

COURSE AIM
The aim o the course is to give trining in planning, design, quantity surveying and to prepare a bid for a civil engineering projekt or an industrial building.

CONTENTS
The course deals with an ongoing project e.g. a road, a rail road or an industrial plant which shall be built on a design and build contract. The students work in groups simulating a project team in a construction company. The groups prepare their technical and commercial proposals in competition with each other. The result of the work is a bid for the job including description of the proposed technical solutions which shall be defended in simulated negotiation about the contract. Current subjects that will be included in the project are, management, soil mechanics, construction and design of steel-, concrete- and wood constructions.

TEACHING
The teaching will start with some general lectures. Lectures intended to assist in solving the current problems are given as needed. The groups have possibility to consult the teachers who give advise but not solutions.

EXAMINATION
The examination consists of the simulated negotiations and the written documents.
COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS/CREDITS
Part 2 9.00ECTS
Part 1 3.00ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE


Further information: International Office

Valid for the academic year 1999/2000.

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