Program Overview

Program Overview

The Architectural Engineering program offers a comprehensive course, ARE 480: Construction Economics and Finance. This course provides a framework for understanding and interpreting the economic and financial issues in relation to the construction industry, construction firms, and construction projects.

Course Details

• Credits: 3
• Lab Hours: 0
• Lecture Hours: 3
• Tutoring Hours: 0

Course Description

The course covers the economic theories of development and construction of built facilities and infrastructure and the roles of these processes in the general economy. Participants will benefit by gaining a better understanding of the conceptual frameworks of economic analysis that underly a variety of approaches to practical problems encountered in the construction process.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

• Prerequisite Courses:
  • ARE 355: Quantity Surveying
• Corequisites: none

Institution

The course is offered by Alfaisal University, located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.