Construction methods and equipment management

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1:Module 1: Introduction to course and Planning Process of Equipment Lecture 1: Planning process of equipment – Factors affecting equipment selection, Planning equipment utilization, Equipment utilization chart. Module 2: Cost of Owning and Operating Construction Equipment Lecture 2: Estimation of Ownership cost (Average Annual Investment method) – Elements of ownership cost, Depreciation accounting methods, Cost Estimation using Average Annual Investment method.Week 2:Module 2: Cost of Owning and Operating Construction Equipment Lecture 3: Estimation of Ownership cost (Time value method)
– Use of compounding factors in Equipment cost estimation based on time value method.
Lecture 4: Operating cost of Equipment
– Operating cost components, Illustrations on estimation of operating cost.
Lecture 5: Equipment cost estimation
– Caterpillar & Peurifoy method – Illustrations on use of Caterpillar method and Peurifoy method for estimation of total equipment cost.Week 3:Module 3: Equipment Life and Replacement Analysis Lecture 6: Equipment Life and Replacement Analysis (Part 1) – Physical life, Profit life, Economic life, Illustrations on determination of economic life of equipment. Lecture 7: Equipment Life and Replacement Analysis (Part 2) – Equipment Replacement analysis- Intuitive method, Minimum cost method, Maximum profit method. Lecture 8: Equipment Life and Replacement Analysis (Part 3) – Determination of economic life based on equivalent annual cost (using time value concept).Week 4:Module 4: Engineering Fundamentals of Moving Earth Lecture 9: Engineering Fundamentals of Moving Earth – Machine Performance-Required power, Available power, Usable power, Rolling resistance, tractive force, co-efficient of traction, Effect of grade on tractive effort, Effect of altitude on performance of IC engines, Performance chart, ways to define payload of equipment.
Module 5: Earthmoving and Excavating equipment Lecture 10: Bull Dozers – Bull Dozers-Types of dozer blades, blade adjustments, Blade performance, production estimation. Lecture 11: Scrapers (Part 1) – Scrapers, Scraper operation, types of scraper, Components of production cycle of scraper and pusher. Lecture 12: Scrapers (Part 2) – Illustrations on production estimation of scraper and balancing interdependent machines.Week 5:Module 5: Earthmoving and Excavating equipment
Lecture 13: Front End loaders – Front-End loaders –loader attachments, productivity estimation. Lecture 14: Excavators – Excavators-Front shovels and backhoes, operation, factors affecting selection, production estimation. Lecture 15: Trucks – Production cycle, cycle time estimation, Productivity of trucks, balancing interdependent machines.Week 6:Module 6: Piles and Pile driving equipment Lecture 16: Piles and Pile driving equipment (Part 1) – Pile types: Precast and cast in situ piles, pile hammers, principle of pile hammer, factors affecting pile hammer selection. Lecture 17: Piles and Pile driving equipment (Part 2) – Types of pile hammer: Drop hammer, Single acting and double acting steam hammers, Diesel hammers, Vibratory pile drivers.
Week 7:Module 7: Lifting equipment Lecture 18: Cranes (Part 1) – Cranes, Crane motions, Principles of lifting mechanism of crane, types of cranes-lattice boom crawler crane, lattice boom truck mounted cranes, telescopic boom crane. Lecture 19: Cranes (Part 2) – Types of cranes-Tower cranes, Factors affecting lifting capacity of crane, Range diagram.Week 8:Module 8: Concreting equipment Lecture 20: Concreting equipment (Part 1) – Steps in concrete making process, types of concrete mixer machines. Lecture 21: Concreting equipment (Part 2) & Conclusion – Methods of handling and transporting concrete, Consolidation of concrete, Methods of finishing and curing of concrete.