The aim of this module is to provide the students with:

• An understanding of the practical technologies involved in civil engineering and infrastructure construction processes.
• An understanding of typical ground engineering problems and solutions that can be applied to civil engineering works.

The aim of this module is to develop students' understanding of planning and estimating techniques and how and when these techniques are applied within a typical construction project lifecycle. The module will also develop students' understanding of commercial management, cost management and decision-making to support bidding for construction projects. The module also aims to introduce students to collaborative practices and professional perspectives in solving project planning and construction risk for the built environment and to allow students to work in cross disciplinary teams to plan and deliver a project.

The aim of this module is to provide the student with:

• Working knowledge of methods of measurement and quantification of framed buildings and structures.
• Working knowledge of the New Rules of Measurement 2 (NRM2) for framed buildings, and the Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement, 4th edition (CESMM4).
• An understanding of the role of Building Information Modelling from a QS perspective (5D).

The aim of this module is to enable the student to develop essential knowledge and understanding in the fundamentals of accounting, financial and risk management, and use them to support management decisions at project and company level in construction.

The aim of this module is for the student to understand the function, technology, design and operation of selected building services systems typically deployed in medium to large (i.e. high-rise) commercial, non-domestic buildings. They are also to understand the principles considered in the development of environmental management strategies, sustainability considerations in the design and operation of selected services systems, and the provisions required in building design to accommodate those systems.

This module aims to introduce students to principles of contract law relevant to the procedures typically enacted in standard forms of construction contract; introduce students to the use of different forms of contract within a contract suite to assemble construction project relationships. Focusing on the JCT SBC/Q standard form of contract as an example and approaching it from the perspective of the client's consultant quantity surveyor, the module also aims to: introduce the central tenets of effective contract administration focused on the management of cost, time, and change; and to make students familiar with the methods by which the client's quantity surveyor prepares financial reports and cashflow forecasts, interim valuations, and final accounts.

This module aims to:

• Introduce students to the estimating function of construction contracting organisations.
• Develop student knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of the estimating function within construction contracting organisations.
• Develop student ability to quantify the work to derive rates for typical construction projects.

This module aims to introduce students to:

• The role of the main contractor during the pre-contract phase, including methods of integrating contractor and supply network expertise into the project solution.
• Standards-compliant value engineering.
• Methods of work organisation and supply network mobilisation; cashflow optimisation.
• The ongoing commercial management of projects to ensure contractor solvency, including cost-value reconciliations.
• Contractual mechanisms available to the contractor (in specific situations) to claim extensions of time and payment of loss and expense as typified by the JCT SBC/Q standard form of construction contract.
• Conflict avoidance.
• Escalating methods of dispute resolution.