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Standard forms of construction contract. Analyses, interpretation and application of condition of contract clauses. Definition of works; meaning of completion, sectional completion, time for completion. Extension of time, instructions, defect liability and maintenance clauses; insurance and payment. Liability of contractor, subcontractor and suppliers. Bankruptcy and insolvency. Preparation of financial statements and final account; determination and preparation of termination accounts; position of parties in absence of express provision, regulatory clauses and statutory conditions. Liability of professional advisers. Scenario-based exercises to help the students to develop requisite skills in contract administration. Dispute resolution mechanisms, trends in commercial dispute resolutions. Alternative dispute resolutions. Emphasis on arbitration, introduction to the latest arbitration and conciliation Acts in Nigeria and other international documents. Institutions promoting alternative dispute resolutions locally and internationally. Cases in alternative dispute resolution in the Nigerian construction industry making use of adjudication, arbitration mediation, conciliation among others. Multi- door Court systems at State and Federal levels.

Analyses, interpretation and application of condition of contract clauses. Introduction to common standard forms of contract in use in the construction industry. The following are to be examined: Latest or current versions of JCT variants, FIDIC, NEC and the Nigerian standard form in use by the Bureau of Public procurement. Construction contracts record management. Claim and administration of claim in construction contract. Types of claims. Claims initiation, preparation, presentation and negotiation. Types of claims, quantification of claims, restitution claims – claim for a “reasonable sum”. Claims avoidance and prevention. Delay analysis and extension of time, acceleration claims.

Structure of the construction industry. Variation in workload of the construction industry. Relationship of output of construction industry to available resources. The construction economy, its relation to the national economy. Effect of government actions on the Construction Industry. Functional requirements and cost implications of constructional methods. Economics of building development. Nature and scope of development projects. Factors affecting the supply and demand for landed property. Introduction to the methods of valuation of landed property, including simple calculations. Construction and use of valuation tables.

Review of fundamental concepts in construction economics: estimate, cost, price and value, the concept of value for money. Preliminary estimates, methods of preparing approximate estimates. Theory and practice of construction cost planning and cost control. Cost planning principles and types of cost planning methods. Construction cost data: characteristics of cost data, accuracy and consistency of cost data. Presentation of cost plan and formats. Utilizing the outputs of cost planning and approximate estimates. Analysis of current research on the practice of cost planning and cost control in Nigeria.

Building cost indices and locational indices: principles, build up and uses. Use of cost analysis data and indices in establishing preliminary estimates of future projects. Advanced cost planning and cost control to align cost plan with preliminary estimate or cost limit; cost modelling techniques; cost engineering techniques: cost estimating or assessment methods employed in cost engineering. Effect of Building geometry on construction cost; development economics: aims of private developers and preparation of developer’s budget. Investment appraisal techniques. Aims of public developers and the use of cost/benefit analysis for evaluating public projects. Choice and acquisition of sites and their effects on developments. Sources of funds for development, public investment, mortgage financing. Development bonds, loans, grants, subsidy and taxation. Group assignment, using peer support to develop the knowledge and skill for aligning cost plan to preliminary estimate or cost limit.

Nature of projects and project environment; introduction to project management; major professional bodies responsible for project management and introduction to their books of knowledge. Managing the construction client; project strategy; managing the construction process: work breakdown structure. Construction programming – types of programmes; programming techniques: the Gantt chart, network analysis among others. Managing project finance: client cash flow, contractor’s cash flow and cash flow forecasting; project control – earned value method; techniques and principles of Total Quality Management (TQM). Lean thinking in construction; project commissioning and testing of installations. Managing project completion; project management software. Introduction to project monitoring and evaluation. Application of project management toolkits to green construction.

Statistical data: types, sources and methods of collection. Presentation of data: tables chart and graphs. Errors and approximations. Frequency and cumulative distributions, measures of location, partition, dispersion, skewness and Kurtosis. Rates, ratios and index numbers.

Elementary set theory, subsets, union, intersection, complements, Venn diagrams. Real numbers; integers, rational and irrational numbers, mathematical induction, real sequences and series, theory of quadratic equations, binomial theorem. Complex numbers; algebra of complex numbers; the Argand diagram. De-Moivre’s theorem, nth roots of unity. Circular measure, trigonometric functions of angles of any magnitude, addition and factor formulae.

Function of a real variable, graphs, limits and idea of continuity. The derivative, as limit of rate of change. Techniques of differentiation. Extreme curve sketching; Integration as an inverse of differentiation. Methods of integration, Definite integrals. Application to areas, volumes.

Concept of entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship/corporate entrepreneurship,). Theories, rationale and relevance of entrepreneurship (Schumpeterian and other perspectives. Risk-taking, necessity and opportunity-based entrepreneurship and creative destruction). Characteristics of entrepreneurs (opportunity seeker, risk taker, natural and nurtured. Problem solver and change agent. Innovator and creative thinker). Entrepreneurial thinking (critical thinking, reflective thinking, and creative thinking). Innovation (concept of innovation, dimensions of innovation, change and innovation, Knowledge and innovation). Enterprise formation, partnership and networking (basics of business plan, forms of business ownership, business registration and forming alliances and join ventures). Contemporary entrepreneurship issues (knowledge, skills and technology, intellectual property, virtual office, networking). Entrepreneurship in Nigeria (biography of inspirational entrepreneurs, youth and women entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship support institutions, youth enterprise networks and environmental and cultural barriers to entrepreneurship). Basic principles of e-commerce.