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SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION HANDBOOK 2 addition, this track aims at the development of innovation-minded construction managers. Although the course titles may not show it, many courses deal with innovative concepts such as value orientation, life cycle thinking, systems thinking and systems engineering and cradle-to-cradle thinking. Again, the idea behind this is that in our view the current students must be prepared for their role as innovation enablers for a sustainable construction industry. The profile of the construction manager of the future The lists provided in this section are based on the trend analysis made in the previous section and complemented with the results of subject-specific interviews with specialists in the field of CME and a graduate student survey conducted by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CiTG) in 2005. Regarding the general and scientific personal requirements of the construction manager of the future, he or she should have the following qualifications: 86 • A thorough scientific attitude. In his or her scientific attitude he or she does not restrict himself or herself to the specific boundaries of the CME domain and is able to cross these boundaries • The ability to reflect on the complete scope of matters and issues in the domain: is able to form an opinion and contribute to discussions • As an academic, the manager understands the potential benefits of research and is able to understand and incorporate the results of research • Understands the importance of oral and written communication skills, in particular in English, and can make effective use of these • Has the habit to reflect upon his or her own work and continuously uses relevant information to improve his or her competences • Is able to operate (or lead) multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams Regarding the domain-specific requirements of the construction manager of the future, he or she should have the following qualifications: • Is able to work from different disciplinary viewpoints and levels, including the ability to recognize and to work with the interconnections that exist between levels • Has a life-cycle mindset: is able to make decisions which guarantee future values and benefits • Has a demand- and client-oriented mindset: is able to help clients to specify their needs and to translate these into products with most benefit for both client and supplier • Understands the fundamental difference between process- and project management and is able to apply the underlying techniques and methodologies in projects • Understands the concepts of dynamic control at strategic, tactic and operational levels in the different life-cycle stages of projects • Is able to recognise and to control uncertain factors (i.e. risk management), with a special attention for process aspects and (not individual) safety aspects • Understands the concepts for optimal design/composition of plans and projects, incorporating technical, financial, economical and social viewpoints • Is able to recognize the relevant legal aspects during construction processes and is able to analyze these in the context of public and private institutional frameworks • Understands the concepts of financial engineering including project financing and financial accounting and is able to recognize the associated risks
HANDBOOK 2 SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION • Is able to make a well-considered judgement of the applicability of IT instruments at individual, project and company levels. The list regarding general, scientific personal and domain-specific requirements was the starting point for the development of MSc CME specialization at the Delft location of the 3TU GS. As mentioned earlier, the section Design and Construction Processes at the Faculty CiTG leads in the development process of the MSc CME programme in Delft. The mission of this section is the scientific clarification and practical promotion of the theme “process and system innovation in buildings”. This goal will be achieved by creating a link between innovation and the scientific research providing a significant contribution to both science and the society. This contribution will be realised by the “Living Building Concept” (LBC) as developed within the section. The LBC is an extensive theoretical framework of concepts wherein the value plays an equally significant role as the cost of a construction work. This approach will have widespread consequences for the relationships between stakeholders, the methods of tendering construction works, the assignment of tasks as well as the sharing of responsibilities and risks Ridder, 2005). The introduction and adoption of advanced information and communication technologies in the construction industry is seen as one of the key enablers for this change. Many of these concepts are (or will be) integrated with the obligatory and elective courses and are the research subjects of the graduation projects, which are conducted under the supervision of staff members of the involved section. In this respect, the participation of Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) becomes of crucial importance, because of their wide experience in both education and research in several of the areas that are covered by the LBC. The Faculty of TPM aims to use internationally oriented teaching and research to make a significant contribution towards providing sustainable solutions to complex (social) problems which involves analyzing the structure and operation of technical multi-actor systems as well as the development of intervention strategies, practices, and instruments for designing and improving systems of this kind. Based on the findings in the sections 5 and 6, the specific research profile of the section Design and Construction Processes at the faculty CiTG and the available expertise at the Delft location of the 3TU GS, a two-year MSc CME programme (divided in 8 blocks) has been developed (Table 2). Table 2. Structure of the MSc CME programme in Delft Note that the whole CME programme has been benchmarked against similar CME programmes offered outside the Netherlands including programmes offered by the university of Loughborough and 87
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