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2023-2024 Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Catalog

CMT 216 Costs and Productivity

Lecture: 3 Lab: 0 Clinic: 0 Credits: 3
This course covers the relationships between time, work completed, work-hours spent, schedule duration, equipment hours, and materials used. Topics include production rates, productivity unit rates, work method improvements, and overall total project cost control. Upon completion, the student should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how costs may be controlled and productivity improved on a construction project.

Pre-requisite(s): CMT 210.  
Course is typically offered in Spring.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
At the completion of the course, the students should be able to do the following:

  1. Demonstrate how the basic elements of work come together on a project.
  2. Describe what forces impact crew productivity.
  3. Differentiate between production and productivity.
  4. Explain how work estimated is converted into project budgets.
  5. Demonstrate how a cost reporting system does not control project costs by itself.
  6. Solve problems that are causing cost overruns.
  7. Control how to isolate productivity constraints.
  8. Demonstrate how to use simple industrial engineering techniques
  9. Describe the involvement of the crew in meetings will improve productivity
  10. Plan key production work items to maximize productivity
  11. Demonstrate how costs considered to be non-variable can affect the overall cost