Individual (one engineer)Member $220.00 | Non-Member $270.00
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INSTRUCTOR:
Nils J. Gransberg, Ph.D., AC, A.MASCE
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Purpose and Background
This introductory-level course is designed to teach engineers and other construction professionals’ principles, tools, and techniques used to accurately develop unit pricing for heavy civil projects and understand how general contractors prepare competitive bids. State DOTs, municipalities, and other public owners utilize unit pricing to procure competitively bid heavy civil and other production-driven public works construction projects. Engineers play a key role in developing design products, producing quantity take-offs, and assisting owners in the procurement and administration of the work. These courses are designed to “bridge the gap” between the skills and tools taught in typical undergraduate civil engineering and what is needed to work in industry as an entry-level civil engineer. This course will take an estimated 5 hours to complete.
Benefits and Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Calculate production-driven equipment and crew productivity.
- Develop and optimize task-oriented construction equipment packages.
- Calculate sustained production rates for earthmoving equipment packages.
- Calculate yield and production rates for asphalt batching and screening plants.
- Organize asphalt and concrete paving trains.
- Employ fundamental tools and techniques to develop accurate pricing for unit price heavy civil construction projects.
- Explain the differences between balanced, mathematically unbalanced, and materially unbalanced bids.
- Analyze and properly employ public bid tabulations.
- Develop unit price databases.
Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Achievement of the learning outcomes by attendees will be assessed through a final exam.
Who Should Attend?
- Entry-level engineers
- Architects and design professionals
- Public owners or owner’s representatives
- Capital projects staff
- Construction administrators
- General contractors
- Project engineers
- Project managers
- Other construction professionals
Pre-requisites
- There are no hard prerequisites for taking this course.
- Recommend completing the online course, Estimating Quantities for Unit Price Projects. This course, Unit Price and Bid Development, builds upon topics covered there.
- Recommend education or work experience in civil engineering, heavy-civil construction, public works, general contracting, quantity surveying, cost engineering, project scheduling, other design disciplines, or similar.
Course Outline
Module 1 : Earthwork Production and Equipment Packaging
Lesson 1.1 = Introduction
Lesson 1.2 = Equipment and Crew Production Rates – this video contains a short quiz
Lesson 1.3 = Construction Equipment Packages
Learning Exercise
Lesson 1.4 = Earthmoving Equipment Production
Learning Exercise
Module 2 : Asphalt and Concrete Paving
Lesson 2.1 = Introduction
Lesson 2.2 = Batching and Screen Plant Equipment – this video contains a short quiz
Lesson 2.3 = Plant Equipment Production
Learning Exercise
Lesson 2.4 = Paving Train Production
Learning Exercise
Module 3 : Developing Unit Price Bids
Lesson 3.1 = Introduction
Lesson 3.2 = Estimating Unit Prices – this video contains a short quiz
Lesson 3.3 = Estimating Means and Methods
Learning Exercise
Lesson 3.4 = Unit Price Bids Part 1 – this video contains a short quiz
Lesson 3.5 = Unit Price Bids Part 2
Learning Exercise
Module 4 : Unit Price Database Development
Lesson 4.1 = Introduction
Lesson 4.2 = Bid Tab Analysis Part 1 – this video contains a short quiz
Lesson 4.3 = Bid Table Analysis Part 2
Learning Exercise
Lesson 4.4 = Unit Price Database Development Tools
Learning Exercise
How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion
This course is worth .5 CEUs/ 5 PDHs. To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher.
How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?
1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]