Lecture 1a Learning

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This lectures provides some tools to help make you more efficient at learning. If you want to climb to the top of your field you should start thinking of ways to make the journey less cumbersome and more effective and enjoyable. if you like this video and want to see more related videos click subscribe and click on my YouTube channel. You don't need to do this for this course but it may help you in other areas and courses.
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Watching this in 2024. Tom is a Canadian Gem. Great Job Professor.

XYZ-Drafting_and_Designs

Not to compare you with others but you're much better than our tutor on this subject. Teaching is a skill and not everyone has it. Thank you

AymanAlHafeth

I'm doing construction management and Quantity surveying at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa, professor Tom helps me to understand some concepts of construction management
Sir you are the best, i'm learning a lot with you
I wish to do my honours in Canada

joshnkole

First, thank you for the videos. I look forward to watching them all.

RE: Change, and image at 12:07
I remember Robert Heinlein talking about this phenomenon in one of his non-fiction books. It was probably 45-50 years ago, and what he was discussing was acculturation. One of the examples he referenced was some people he encountered in Barrow, Alaska. The world they had been born into revolved around things like ice fishing and trying not to get eaten by polar bears, but they were living in a world where there were airplanes in the sky overhead and you could buy a chocolate shake down on Transit Street. The ability of the locals (Inuit) to adapt to their new reality was mixed. They were acculturated.

I thought that was interesting because that used to be a phenomenon experienced mainly by very localized communities experiencing rapid growth, and individuals who moved far from their homes. And now we're all acculturated in our own culture and it's a more-or-less constant phenomenon.

My point was in reference to your comments on change. My thinking is that it can be an exciting time or a real "embrace the suck" moment, but there's no real point in doing anything other than meeting it head on and making your peace with it. One thing I've noticed is that the change I resisted in the past tends to become the comfortable present that I don't want to change. The implication being that the change I resist today will be the comfort zone of tomorrow.

Predictions on changes to the construction industry...?

I think that it will mainly be in the area of tools and materials.

I've used a lot of geomaterials, mainly geogrid, to replace or augment traditional base materials.
RCP culvert pipes have build in gaskets and you don't have to paint the spigot with mastic anymore.
I use a Topcon laser, not a transit. Pipe lasers let you line up very long stretches of pipe and the inspector only needs seconds to pass you.
I used to own a motor grader that had 4 control levers on each side of the steering wheel and two more to the driver's right. Climate control was limited to a choice of being hot and sweaty or being covered in dust. Now they have joystick controls, satellite uplinks, laser and a cabin that wouldn't be out of place in a luxury car.
I can do rough surveys with Google Earth Pro that are accurate to within 12" of resolution.

I don't think that there will be much change in the structures themselves in the sense that while there will likely always be a niche for modular buildings, almost all structures are, for all practical purposes; bespoke. The nature of building process from permitting and land clearing, through ground work and construction to final hand-over, in unlikely to change significantly in and of itself. The things that go INTO construction yes, the process itself... I think I would likely find the processes used to build the Pyramids very familiar.

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Excellent choice to start the course with what’s the best strategy to learn…

saldoug

I'm a sophomore in High School watching your YouTube Videos (thanks for making them) and they are really helping me decide whether or not I should apply to MSOE. Is Math a necessity in becoming a Construction Manager and careers before becoming a Construction Manager.

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2024 but this here is topnotch. Thanks, from the Gambia.

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landodeniega

Thanks Mr Tom
Wonderful lectures
Are you teaching the ( fundamental of construction estimation)
Or construction contracting bid management)
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wesolveheat

thankyou sir im 26 but am looking into construction management very helpful to have a general idea of this subject

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i am last year civil engineering undergraduate student. i want to become project manager. what should i do ? what path and steps should i follow to become Project manager? in short and minimum time....

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