• The importance of financial management and control in contracting
• Corporate strategies in construction companies
• Financial management at the company level
• Cash flow forecasting (S-curves, net cash flow)
• Costing (need, cost accounts)
• Cost and value reconciliation at the project level
• Production of financial accounts for construction companies
• Corporate analysis and ratio analysis applied in construction
• Economic comparison (present worth, equivalent annual cost, etc.)
• Profitability measurement (NPW, DCY, etc.)
• Construction Plant financial appraisal (calculation of plant hire rate, optimum life, etc.)
• Development appraisal techniques (residual valuation, de-velopment valuations using DCF)

• Structural Requirements for Buildings
• Substructure Design – Foundations
• Substructure Design – Basements
• Structural frames and suspended floors
• Superstructure – External walls and cladding
• Superstructure – Roofs
• Services in Buildings
• Offsite construction
• Low carbon construction

• What is management and its important for professional practice
• Good and bad examples of management and their effect on individuals, organisations and service delivery.
• A critical evaluation of management theories.
• Understanding of the complexities of team building
• Relevance of management competencies to personal development planning

• Construction Industry
• Organisation and Culture
• Project Administration
• Cost Control of Buildings
• Pre and Post Contract
• Whole Life Costing
• Measurement
• Tendering and Procurement
• The role and responsibility of a quantity surveyor within construction industry

• Underlying dynamics of urban structural change within individual cities and within urban systems.
• Urban economic issues – population decline, urban public finance, sustainability, urban transport problem and solutions.
• Urban change and the property market local office market cycles, the influence of financial institutions and the local land market on urban change.
• Property-led local economic development policies – historical perspective, financial incentives, grants to developers, the role of housing, measurements of success

• Introduction to Construction Project Procurement
• Procurement Arrangement Options
• Construction Contract Use in the UK
• Principles of Contract Law
• Partnering
• Procurement through Public Private Partnerships
• Claims
• Negotiating
• Managing Conflicts and Disputes
• Towards Better Contracting Practices

• VRM and the construction procurement processAn Introduction to Value Management, Value Engineering – Function Analysis and other VE tools, Risk, uncertainty and the construction industry, Risk and procurement of PPP projects, The Risk Management framework., Sources, events and effects of project risk, Tools and techniques of Risk Management, Risk response and mitigation, Client Briefing, A Review of North American Practice

• Management Information systems for integrated work environment
• Electronic Documents Management
• Development strategy for information systems
• Introduction to IT Infrastructure and EDI
• E-business in construction
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• Mobile computing in construction
• Smart/Intelligent Building
• Information systems and Knowledge Management
• IT-ethics and human-IT relationship

Students are supported throughout Research Dissertation by an allocated supervisor. There is no formal syllabus, the research project process is supported by VLE with on line resources including PowerPoint slide packs and written guidance material on aspects of good practice in preparing the research project work. Students are introduced to research project requirements early.