Course detail
Economy of Construction Industry
FAST-NVA030Acad. year: 2025/2026
Position of industry of building materials in national economy. Organisation of building materials production. Basic characteristic of industrial firm. Foundation, lifetime and closure of industrial firm. Property and sources of property coverage. Inventory management and financing. Costing and price setting in building materials production. Management of operational and investment costs and returns. Standardization and remuneration. Accounting and taxation. Principles of marketing. Controlling and quality management.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Aims
Knowledge about organization and economy of industry production.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
OLERÍNY, Milan. Řízení stavebních projektů: ceny a smlouvy v zahraniční praxi. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2002. C.H. Beck pro praxi. ISBN 9788071796657.
Stavební podnik: Studijní opora [online]. 1. VUT FAST, 2008 [cit. 2022-10-31].
The Costs of Building a House. Centaur Media, 2014. (EN)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NPC-SIM Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Construction company and production in the construction company
- 2. Normalization of work and performance; Normalization and remuneration in the construction industry
- 3. Managing Material and Supplies Costs.
- 4. Managing labor costs.
- 5. Cost control of machines and production equipment.
- 6. Valuation of production, prices in the construction industry.
- 7. Investments.
- 8. Corporate Finance.
- 9. Taxes, accounting and operational records.
- 10. Marketing.
- 11. Business organization systems, types of business association.
- 12. Benchmarking, management of production costs with respect to the competitiveness of the company.
- 13. Planning circuits and plan control systems, documentation of changes.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Assignment of semestral work.
- 2. Marketing Analysis.
- 3. Costs of materials.
- 4. Costs of wages.
- 5. Transport costs.
- 6. Calculation of the price of construction work.
- 7. Aggregate budget of buildings
- 8. Investment evaluation.
- 9. Price sensitivity analysis.
- 10. Calculation of break-even point.
- 11. The overall evaluation of the investment.
- 12. Presentation of work.
- 13. Handing in and final control.