OBJECTIVE:

This study aims to develop the students' ability to appraise and evaluate current innovation and research in the construction industry, in both building technology and management; to have an understanding of the issues surrounding the sustainability of the global environment and gain an appreciation of the impetus for change in the industry; to assess the difficulties of knowledge transfer and implementation.

OUTCOMES:

1. Evaluate current innovation in construction.

2. Assess the implication of sustainability.

3. Formulate strategies for knowledge transfer and implementation.

4. Evaluate the implementation of changing practices on the construction industry

TASK:

Consider that you are working as a project manager in a LLC in Muscat, Where the company is manly focusing on Flat constructions .Your Company's vision is to develop projects based on sustainable Innovations. It is an Oman based construction company established in the year 1989. It is one of the leading providers of integrated building and infrastructure in Oman. The ISO 9001: 2008 certified company has diversified to constitute various services and activities related to construction like civil construction, landscaping and Building Services.

The company is named as the ‘best construction company' to work in Oman by Business Today, The company offers services in the commercial and residential sectors. With a workforce of more than 1500, the organization strongly believes in investing its resources into human resource development initiatives to enhance its every individual's skills and industrial competencies.

The company also provides a conductive atmosphere for a number of activities for its employees and holds features like Sustainable environment induction program, employee involvement scheme, periodical performance review, behavioral and technical training etc.

You are required to select residential flat project and submit a report on the recent innovative trends in the construction industry covering about 20 pages.

The course work report should be written by the students based on a real construction project which covers the following details.

- Based on materials, design and management strategy analyze the possibilities that you find for implementing innovation in the construction of residential Flat.

- Relate the residential Flat project with sustainable Concepts such as Resource consumption minimization, Protection of the natural environment and use of renewable and recyclable resources

- Apart from the traditional construction practices, analyse some changing practices such as new technologies and software's used in your selected project.

- Suggest some methods to improve the efficiency of knowledge transfer related to your construction project based on

- Communication problem
- Accessibility of information

- Non-updating of information
- Lack of skill

Report Format

1) The front cover of the report should have MEC logo and no page number should appear. It must be in printed form using the following margin spacing (see sample title form)
- Top: 1.0 inches

- Left: 1.5 inches
- Right: 1.0 inches
- Bottom: 1.0 inches

2) The report must be in black ink and is typed written in the English language using 12 points font of "Times New Roman ", on an A4 size standard paper.

3) The spacing of the lines must be 1.5 inches, using ‘justification' alignment for the running text, ‘center justification' for the chapter heading, and ‘left justification for the section heading/sub heading if any.

4) The font used for the chapter number and title is 18 points font; for the sections is 16 points font; and 14 points for sub sections if any.

5) The page number should be in the ‘footer' at the middle. The page number in the ‘Table of Contents' where there is the ‘List of Tables', ‘List of Figures' must be in Roman numerals, (e.g. i, ii, ii,...) and all other pages must be assigned a running Arabic number (1,2,3,...) starting from 1.

6) Every figure and table must have a figure number in an Arabic numeral (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2 . and Table 1, Table 2,...). The figure title is centered at bottom of figure. The table name is centered at the top of the table. Appendices are not required in this report.

Report Sections

The Report should contain a minimum of 20 pages with the following sections:

- Cover Page
- Table of contents
- Proposal
- Introduction
- Main body of report
- Conclusions
- References

The report should start from the ‘cover page' to the ‘references' with the following sections:

1. Cover Page ( refer to sample copy uploaded in the Moodle)
2. Proposal

Write a proposal for the coursework with a proper time plan not exceeding 2 pages.

3. Table of contents:

- ‘Table of Contents' must be in bold upper case size 16 points font in the middle of page (centered)

- ‘List of Figures', ‘List of Tables' (if any) must be in the upper case without bold and use Roman numerals to number the pages.

- All chapter topics should be written in upper case without bold.

- Subtopics written in each chapter should be numbered using Arabic numerals and indented one tab.
3. Proposal
The CW proposal may include:
- CW outputs: Short paragraph (or bullets) to summarize the expected outputs of the assignment. (Analysis, calculations, discussion, research on.., etc)
- Tools: Short paragraph to mention the required tool for this assignment. (Software, Lab instruments, site visit, survey, journals, textbooks...etc) that has to be used to prepare the CW and why this tool?
- Time Plan: A student has to submit a brief schedule to show the possibility of finishing the assignment before the due date.
- Others (if any)

Note: one or two pages are enough to write the proposal.

4. Introduction (Minimum one page)

The introduction sets the context for the report, the background and overview of the report content on the innovative technique used. It summarizes briefly the outline of the entire report and focus on the statement of its objective. It will describe how the report was organized.

5. Main body of report (minimum fifteen pages)

- Describe the strategy being employed in the innovation in construction aspects and the relations of them in present construction industry.
- Focus on the facts and identify the problems for implementing innovation in construction.

Main body and report

- Present the breakdown summary of the data gathered for the Present findings in an organized manner.
- Elaborate the concept of innovation in construction by presenting sub topics relevant to the main topic.

6. Conclusion (maximum one page)

Every report should include a concluding statement regarding the subject matter. State how the principles and methods that can be used for adding value to the process of Innovation in construction. Then the wide range of technology used in construction industry. Also the Knowledge transfer methods in construction industry. Increasing value based on innovation not only for the construction industry but also for society as a whole.

7. References (one page)

Report should include the source from website journals and reference books in Harvard CU style of referencing