Course detail

Calculation

FAST-V41Acad. year: 2021/2022

Price. Price theory. System of prices. Price strategy. State price policy. Price policy of firm. Pricing. Sorts of prices. Demand and supply. Cost price. Contract. Tender. Supply price. Price agreement. Price in building industry. Developer budget. Cost limits. Price of construction. Bill of quantity. Cost estimating. Cost of building works. Fixed and variable costs. Net unit price. Overhead costs. Profit, fees of architects, quantity surveyors and structural engineers. Hourly rates. Building price books. Information about cost estimating in Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, USA, Canada. Parity prices. Statistics of building prices, indexes. Software and databases for estimating for personal computers.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Alena Tichá, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of labour engineering and work economy in civil engineering. Knowledge and skills are required especially from areas of work, material, machines and equpment standardization, wage and salary issues and coding and classification of building production issues.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction. Basic terms.
2. Prices. Price system. Price information.
3. Price policy. Price law.
4. Price creation. Kinds of prices.
5. The costs oriented price creation
6. Costs. Kinds of costs and the division of the costs.
7. Prices in the civil engineering in the Czech republic
8. Investments. Contractual relations
9. The price of the construction
10.–11. The price of the building object
12. Prices of project works and engineering activities
13. Price tools and products

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To get knowledge about cost oriented price generation in civil engineering. To acquire skills by working with cost estimating data and up-to-date software products for cost estimating and costing in civil engineering, that are normally used in construction practice.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Hackney J.W.: Control and Management of Capital Projects. New York 1992
Lucey T.: Costing. London 1993
Tichá, Marková ,Puchýř: Ceny ve stavebnictví I,II. Brno 1999

Recommended reading

Friedman D.D.: Price Theory. Ohio 1986

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Alena Tichá, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction. Basic terms. 2. Prices. Price system. Price information. 3. Price policy. Price law. 4. Price creation. Kinds of prices. 5. The costs oriented price creation 6. Costs. Kinds of costs and the division of the costs. 7. Prices in the civil engineering in the Czech republic 8. Investments. Contractual relations 9. The price of the construction 10.–11. The price of the building object 12. Prices of project works and engineering activities 13. Price tools and products

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Alena Tichá, Ph.D.