CE732. Heavy Machinery & Construction Sites (ects: 4)

Technological features of construction machinery and historic development. Efficiency, machine productivity, functional analysis, construction activities costs. Soils and their characteristics associated with earthworks. Earthworks: relaxation, excavating, loading, transportation, laying, condensation. Exploitation - performance - productivity of constructions machines: Work breakdown structure (WBS), the basic working cycle, functional analysis and activities costing. Types of construction machinery and equipment for technical works: Excavators, transportation machinery, loading, laying, condensation and aggregates manufacturing. Moving/rolling resistance calculation, moving speed, productivity and the hourly cost of autonomous and combined construction machines for basic operations. Concrete production and placing Machinery, asphalt works machines, special foundations and geotechnical machinery (tunnels, retaining structures, remediation), basic mechanical worksite equipment and facilities, electronic equipment (monitoring, recording, handling equipment) and information technology in civil engineering technical works. Construction Site Organization & Scheduling