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Corporate Planning: Formulation of company policy, models for strategic planning, evaluation and implementation of strategy, management of change, effects of economic activity.
Enterprise Development: Professional Self Development: Assertiveness, production market strategy, sources of information.
Building production, site management, planning, control and organisation, work study techniques.
Resource Management: Manpower planning, plant management, sub-contractor selection, co-ordination, control and payment, material purchasing systems.
Production Management: Analysis of construction methods and strategies, physical production systems, on and off site factory production.
Project planning and programming techniques, short, medium and long term planning, planning progressing and controlling, method statement, programming techniques. Advanced construction planning and programming techniques. Use of commercial planning and control software in construction situations.

On completion of this module you will be able to:
LO1: compare and contrast the various construction methods and strategies;
LO2: create plans and programmes for the control and co-ordination of construction projects;
LO3: evaluate resource management strategies and concepts in a construction industry context;
LO4: demonstrate the use of planning and programming techniques for construction and their value in the
decision making and problem-solving processes;
LO5: discuss and evaluate the corporate planning and marketing strategies utilised in construction.