For those students who need additional study to meet this requirement, support coursework may be obtained at Virginia Tech or elsewhere. Note that nine credit hours of undergraduate coursework for this support may be applied to the graduate program of studies. The following is a partial list of courses that are or will be available to the graduate student entering the Construction Management Program. An examination of the professional and technical management activities applicable to the building process including the conceptual, planning, design, bid, negotiation, construction, and occupancy phases of public and private projects. Emphasis is placed on the integration of the planning, design, and construction efforts to achievement maximum project quality and value.
Emphasis is both at a company macro level and a project operational level.
Value engineering, cost monitoring and cost controls are explored for optimizing decision-making. This course contrasts aspects of the US construction industry with similar yet fundamentally different operating procedures utilized within the international construction community. Areas of concentration include participant organization and culture, project delivery methods, multinational teams, and unique operational and management activities essential in the international market. This course examines methods of integrating principles of environmental control into facility management decisions to achieve the financial, planning, marketing, and operations goals. This course covers the fundamentals of construction processes and technology as applied to CSI Div.