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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction	Türkçe
Level of Course	Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery	Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator	Prof. Dr. TURHAN NEJAT ARAL
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course	The aim of the course is to have computer-aided calculations of tender works and work schedules, quantity surveying, estimation works, unit price analyzes and related applications; to teach basic information about contract contents, technical specifications, preparation of progress payment accounts, provisional and final acceptance procedures, factors affecting building cost and calculation methods.
Course Content	In the course, basic concepts related to building cost, cost management; cost estimation, planning and control, factors affecting cost in building construction, time and resource management; time and resource estimation, planning and control, construction site management; construction site planning, work progress supervision, risk management; risk planning and control, quality management; basic information about and regulations, tender works, quantity surveying and surveying, progress payment preparation, provisional and final acceptance procedures, technical specifications and contracts will be taught practically.

The aim of the course

The aim of the course is to have computer-aided calculations of tender works and work schedules, quantity surveying, estimation works, unit price analyzes and related applications; to teach basic information about contract contents, technical specifications, preparation of progress payment accounts, provisional and final acceptance procedures, factors affecting building cost and calculation methods.

Course Content

In the course, basic concepts related to building cost, cost management; cost estimation, planning and control, factors affecting cost in building construction, time and resource management; time and resource estimation, planning and control, construction site management; construction site planning, work progress supervision, risk management; risk planning and control, quality management; basic information about and regulations, tender works, quantity surveying and surveying, progress payment preparation, provisional and final acceptance procedures, technical specifications and contracts will be taught practically.

Learning Outcomes

Discuss formal composition systems and the methods used in architecture.
Comment on the basic principles and methods of architecture and planning.
Summarize the parallel and divergent canons of architecture and urban design, city, art, technology and human sciences of the Western world.
Identify with sufficient scientific background the effect of the non-Western philosophy on the architectural canons in Western architecture.
Retain the basic principles of ecology and architects' responsibilities with respect to environment and human interaction in architecture.
Predict the needs to design sites and buildings to accommodate individuals with varying physical abilities.
Outline an architectural project informed by a comprehensive program from schematic design.
Provide theoretical bases of distinct approaches and design methods in contemporary architecture.
Interpret the shifts occuring in the natural-artificial, legal–political and economic factors that shape the practice of architecture.
Recognize art activities shaping the manner, bacground and senses of an architectural design.
Distinguish the local traditions, materials and regional heritage in architecture including vernacular traditions.
Possess awareness of economic and aesthetic parameters and clients' demands in a design project.
Discuss the diversity of needs, behavioral norms, and social and spatial patterns characterizing different cultures in architecture.
Integrate the principles of structural behavior of the load carrying structural systems in the architectural design.
Recognize building codes, standards and conventions in the architectural design and architects' legal responsibilities.
Incorporate the basic principles of plumbing, electrical wiring, heating and air-conditioning and alike into the design.
Classify the basic principles of acoustics and lighting systems, and energy use.
Define the principles, conventions, standards, applications, and restrictions pertaining to the manufacture and the use of increasing number and types of construction materials.
Identify the ethical issues involved in the formation of professional judgments in architecture design and practice.
Formulate the proper presentation of the subject matter of an architectural project.
Analyze the examples of contemporary international architectural design with a critical point of view.
Employ basic methods of data collection and analysis to address all the aspects of design process in city planning, urban planning and landscape architecture.
Design a comprehensive architectural project, including a critical review of appropriate precedents, an analysis of site conditions and a definition of site selection and design assessment criteria.
Employ appropriate representational media, including computer technology, to convey essential formal elements at each stage of the programming and design process.
Integrate structural, environmental and life-safety systems, building envelope systems, and building service systems into building design.
Describe technically precise design and structural behavior for the purposes of review and construction.
Utilize technically precise inventory and documentation of a historic place within the rules established by the relevant authority.
Assemble a comprehensive software program for an architecture project including an assessment of client and user needs, an inventory of space and equipment requirements, an analysis of site conditions and a definition of site selection and design assessment criteria.
Design sites and buildings to accommodate individuals with varying physical abilities.
Respond to natural and built site characteristics and their effects in the development of a program and the design of a project.
Design different methods of project delivery, the corresponding forms of service contracts and the types of documentation required to render competent and responsible professional service within the legislation of a building.
Judge the individual role of an architect in the professional field and his/her responsibility.
Work successfully in research and design stages of an architectural project within a team.
Consent lifelong learning principles in professional life as well as follow up development and improvement in the field of architecture.
Discuss social and professional issues.
Administer the limited energy resources and take responsibility to protect the environment.
Integrate the basic principles and responsibilities of organization and legislation as they apply to the practice of architecture.
Configure, as an integral part of the design, an appropriate combination of building materials, components, and assemblies to satisfy the requirements of building programs.

Weekly Course Subjects

1	The place and importance of cost estimation/planning/control in the architectural profession. Course introduction, defines basic concepts related to building cost.
2	Cost types: initial investment cost, usage cost, indirect cost, direct cost, fixed cost, variable cost, etc. factors affecting the cost, cost estimation and calculation techniques.
3	Land selection and arrangement of projects, projects that must be included in the tender dossier, technical and management organizations of the administrations, general specification for construction works.
4	Cost planning before design: Creating a budget, Cost planning during the design phase, Types of cost estimates during the construction phase, Cost estimation methods and applications, cost planning and control.
5	Building quantity surveying and surveying processes and application
6	Unit price definitions, unit price analyses, examples
7	Application: Making a work breakdown Quantity Surveying and Discovery Samplings
8	Cost management, planning and control, factors affecting cost in building construction
9	Basic information examples about technical specifications
10	Basic information and examples about contracts
11	Work programs, site management and organization charts, construction management models.
12	Working on homework and evaluating it, sample studies
13	Progress payment preparation, provisional and final acceptance concepts
14	Building cost course content summary

Resources

1- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0263786312000841

2- https://www.wbdg.org/resources/estimating

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