BCOM 230 - Construction Equipment

1. Accurately calculate the cost of owning and operating equipment including investment cost, depreciation, and other economic factors.
2. Explain the various engineering fundamental factors, i.e. rolling resistance, grade, coefficient of traction, altitude, temperature/pressure, travel distance, drawbar pull, rim pull, etc., and be able to calculate the effects of these factors on equipment performance and productivity.
3. Explain the uses of various earth moving equipment including tractors, bulldozers, crawlers, trenchers, scrapers, backhoes, clamshells, loaders, etc.
4. Explain how motion and time studies are used to calculate production rates for equipment.
5. Be able to use data from studies and rate tables to calculate productivity rates.
6. Accurately calculate production rates of various construction equipment, including tractors, bulldozers, crawlers, trenchers, scrapers, backhoes, clamshells, loaders, etc., under varying environmental and job related/site conditions.
7. Contrast and compare the productivity rates of equipment based on scope of operation, technical specifications, safety considerations, budget constraints, schedules, etc.
8. Describe the various types of piles and pile driving equipment and their applications.
9. Select appropriate pumping equipment by type, size and task requirements.
10. Describe the various types and uses of grouts, pumps and application equipment.
11. Describe precautions for safe use of construction equipment.
12. Explain equipment physical life, profit life and economic life cycle and be able to apply economic factors such as maintenance and operation cost, investment cost, inflation and downtime to equipment replacement alternatives.

• Productivity calculations
• Selecting equipment
• Maintenance costs
• Operating costs

 
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