Description

The Department of Construction Management and Earthquake Engineering continues the tradition of the Department of Building Economics, brought to life in 1965. In the Department, the first in Poland specialisation of Organization and Management in Building Industry was introduced in 1974 and it is conducted continuingly by the Department staff members up till now. In its long-time history, the Department undertook numerous organizational changes, including its name updating (e.g. the following names were used: Department of Technology and Management, Department of Technology and Management in Building Industry, Department of Metal Structures and Construction Management). The Department of Construction Management and Earthquake Engineering, in its present form, is the first and the only one in Poland to direct its scientific-research targets into a broad range of building enterprise management, investment schedules, optimization of investment process, investment risk, cost estimations, Bayesian networks, neural networks, dynamics of metal structures and earthquake engineering. In its scientific-research studies, the Department cooperates with a number of research institutions in Poland and abroad.

Within the teaching framework conducted by the staff members of the Department, at both full-time and part-time courses in the fields of civil engineering, transportation, environmental engineering, geodesy and cartography, the legacy of technical, economic and social sciences is used. The teaching domain of the Department covers a wide spectrum of problems, such as building economics, building work contracts, organization of building manufacture, cost estimation and technology of specific works, management modelling of enterprises, decision theory and engineering diagnostics, management and marketing, numerical methods, structural design, dynamics of metal structures and earthquake engineering. The staff members of the Department conduct classes in Polish and English, including the classes of the graduation profile of Technology and Organization in Building Industry (1st cycle) as well as Technology and Management in Building Industry (2nd cycle).

Offer for industry

• Schedules of construction works
• Optimization of investment process in its all phases
• Risk assessment of construction projects
• Cost estimates and bills of works
• Technical expert opinions concerning e.g. technology, organization and cost estimation of building engineering works
• Experimental tests and numerical analyses of the behaviour of metal structures subjected to dynamic loads
• Measurements of structural vibrations
• Seismic resistance tests
• Analyses of the effectiveness of vibration reduction methods

Equipment

• shaking table
• 16 channel vibration measurement system with a set of acceleration and displacement sensors
• 64 channel system for dynamic strain measurements