TEACHING

Courses taught at Florida International University

BCN 3240: Construction Equipment

This course provides the student with an understanding of construction equipment with particular emphasis on equipment selection, cost, productivity, capacity, and flexibility.

BCN 3611: Construction Cost Estimating I

This course provides an introduction to material quantity surveys based on construction methods, drawings, and specifications.

BCN 3640: Economic Planning for Construction

This course investigates nature of construction costs, funding sources, capital requirements, bonding, insurance, risk, and bidding procedures.

BCN 4612: Construction Cost Estimating II

This course stresses quantity take-off and pricing policies, applications of estimating techniques, and use of estimating software.

BCN 5626: Construction Cost Analysis and Control

This course investigates different types of estimating techniques in relation to different stages of construction, productivity analysis, measurement of progress, and techniques of cost control.

BCN 5645: Construction Economic Analysis

This course investigates the principal methods and techniques used in engineering economic analysis as applied to construction projects.

BCN 6775: Decision and Risk Analysis in Construction

This course provides an overview of decision and risk analysis associated with different stages of project life cycle.

BCN 6916: Developments in Construction Technology

This course investigates the principal technologies and emerging applications in the construction industry.