Learning objectives
Knowledge and learning capability
The class will provide at students fundamental knowledge necessary to organize and to manage a work site and to understand related technological evolutions and changes of regulations
Skills
The student will know basic concepts about the most common construction technologies and about the related operation procedures.
Independent judgement.
The class will make the students able to apply at realization of works all technical and theoretical background learned in the previous classes
Communication skills
The student will learn and he will make experience to be able to make the required decisions for construction site organization and how and he will learn how to explain them to a customer.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The class is organized in blocks, each one of them dedicated to a specific aspect of organization and management of working operations and working places.
Direction of works
- Task and duties of Director of Works
- Administrative activities and work accounting
Civil Engineering materials
- Granular materials and unbounded materials
- Bricks
- Asphalt concretes
- Cement concretes and mortars
- Quality control, in-field tests, in-lab tests
- C.E. mark
Organization and management of works and working places
- Working plan
- Excavations, backfilling, embanking and demolitions
- Soil stabilizations
- In place recycling of asphalt pavements
- Launching and laying down
- Formworking and casting
- Laying down
- Provisional works
Safety of working sites
- Act 81/2008, involved people and related duties
- Risk evaluation and procedures for prevention and for protection
- Conditions of working places, sources of risk and personal protection tools for workers
- Technical organization, management and procedure for safety of mechanical plants for working sites
Full programme
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Bibliography
Lecture notes, references and slides will be provided during the class
Teaching methods
The class will be composed by a series of lectures and a series of seminars
Assessment methods and criteria
Learning evaluation will be with an oral exam. The evaluation procedure will be explained during the class
Other information
It is strongly recommended to attend the class
