Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology · Courses
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18 courses with the subject CM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CM 100BUILDING CONSTRUCTION GRAPHICS3
Fundamental principles of Building Construction Graphics are presented in weekly lectures and are developed in the lab through a wide variety of assignments and a semester long project. Emphasis is placed on the core competencies of graphic communication for the built environment, how design professionals communicate ideas, from inception through construction. Students will learn foundation concepts including: measurement and scale and the reading of and interpretation of architectural drawings - plans, sections, elevations. Other topics include an explanation of graphic symbols and abbreviations, dimensioning, typical US sheet sizes, proper sheet (page) layout, sheet arrangement, sheet sequence (set), and drawing relationships on a sheet. Students will begin to understand and apply construction regulations, specifications and standards such as CSI Masterformat, Project delivery, ADA accessibility, building codes, zoning regulations, and LEED.
This course offers a sampler of the entire CM program. It provides the first introduction to the principles of management, construction industry, roles and responsibilities, and an overview of common project management tools. Upon successful course completion, students will be able to understand terminology common to the construction industry, general principles of management and the roles and responsibilities of parties. Students will be familiar with selected planning and control tools and common safety concerns and protocol. This course concludes with a final CM project.
This course introduces students to the skills and tools necessary to prepare cost estimates for construction projects. The course focuses on the blueprint reading and determination of quantities (materials takeoff). Classes will include lectures, problems, examples and a term project. This course aims to increase and improve the working knowledge of students in construction estimating and to train them as professional construction managers. Upon successful course completion, students will be able to read blueprints, and perform quantity takeoff for various work items. Students will utilize computer software to prepare required deliverables. Perform quantity take offs and pricing for a small construction project. Emphasis shall be placed on the scope of work, coordination and quantity surveys for the building components for residential and commercial projects.
This course introduces students to horizontal construction including equipment and selected construction methods. This includes economy, selection, and productivity of common construction equipment and construction procedures for industrial and heavy civil construction. Upon successful course completion, students will be able to understand terminology and units of measurements related to equipment usage in industrial and heavy civil projects. Understand standard designations, sizes, and graduations of equipment and perform comparative cost analysis for owning and operating heavy equipment. Perform the proper selection, applications, utilization and productivity of heavy equipment and understand general processes/methods for constructing industrial and heavy civil projects. Show awareness of construction Safety (OSHA regulations for excavation, inspection and protection). 2026-2027 COURSE CATALOG 121
Building Materials and Applications is a comprehensive study of building construction technology, which includes various building systems, the construction process and the materials used in those systems and processes. The study of the methods and techniques of material extraction, manufacturing assembly and installation are covered in depth. Students will learn about specific material’s properties, characteristics, and their combinations to form composite elements. Construction regulations and standards including building codes, zoning regulations, and ADA accessibility are studied. The construction process is examined, including the roles of professionals such as regulatory agencies, the design team, the construction team, financing agencies, the owner, and the user. Professional industry entities dealing with building specifications such as the CSI (construction specifications institute), their composition and organizational components such as Masterformat and Project Delivery are covered as well as green rating systems such as LEED (leadership in energy and environmental design) for new construction. The course also provides an overview of building structural design. Students will develop several semester projects that tie directly to lectures and offer practical application of textbook material. Each project will focus on basic building materials such as wood, concrete, masonry, and steel construction. Students will design and draft simple construction documents with attention on construction details for different assemblies.
A management course in contract documents, safety, planning, scheduling, production control, and law and labor. Topics include contracts, planning, cost, production, peripheral documents, and cost and work analysis. Students implement CM practices in their final project and project presentation. Upon successful course completion, students will be able to explain construction contract documents, planning and scheduling, cost and production controls. Describe laws and labor issues related to construction projects. Demonstrate the ability to plan and schedule a construction project. Implement job site safety practices and procedures. Identify use of tools and equipment along with method of use in construction and perform common procedures at the job site. Describe and recognize requirements in construction documents. Describe terms and methods in techniques for planning, scheduling and supervision and identify laws and labor issues in construction. Demonstrate problem solving techniques and dexterity in planning and scheduling projects. This course concludes with a final Capstone project. Prerequisites: CM130 and CM260.
This course involves the study of those regulations directly affecting the practice of land surveying in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts such as the Registration Law (MGL Chap. 112, Secs. 81D-81T), the regulations of the Board of Registration of Professional Engineers and of Land Surveyors (250 CMR), the Subdivision Control Law (MGL Chap. 41), the Zoning Act (MGL Chap 40A) and the Massachusetts Land Court Manual of Instructions. Students will be introduced to other bodies of regulations often encountered in the practice of land surveying such as municipal subdivision regulations, the Wetlands Protection Act, and the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act. Emphasis is on applying the various regulations in a professional practice.
The study of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical systems for facilities both residential and commercial is taught. Students will learn to understand the basic design and construction terminologies used to be able to read and understand HVAC, plumbing and electrical construction documents. Also included is the presentation of the basic principles found in vertical circulation, security, fire protection, noise control and room acoustics, energy sources, and green building design considerations. Field trips to area construction and building sites augment class studies. Prerequisites: MA120 and PH212. 122 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
The purpose of this course is to provide the student with the fundamental understanding of land surveying, including both the theory of surveying as well as the hands-on use of modern surveying instruments. Specifically, the theory portion of the course includes surveying computations of: grade, direction, traverse adjustment, area, volume, and horizontal & vertical curve geometry. The instrumentation portion of the course includes making field measurements of elevation, distance and angle using the appropriate land surveying equipment including: the tape, engineer’s level, transit, theodolite, EDMI, and total station. An introduction to construction layout is also included. Upon successful course completion, students will understand the use of measuring systems and the proper mathematical calculations to produce accurate and correct true distances and the use of a level and the mathematical calculations to determine elevation differences. Understand the use of a transit to determine vertical and horizontal angles to locate reference points as applied to construction staking and surveying. Students will have an improved understanding of the rule on Construction Surveying and layout in the operation of the construction industry. Prerequisites: MA120 and PH212.
This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of boundary law, including the creation of boundaries, nature of title, legal descriptions of property, methods of conveying title, researching property title and boundaries, identifying basic components of deeds, easements, water boundaries, and resolving basic boundary conflicts. The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a strong fundamental understanding of the aspects of property rights, interests and nature of title and how it can be affected by actions, deeds and the law and familiarize the student with the various definitions and legal terms used in the surveying and conveyancing professions. The course is designed to teach concepts that appear frequently in the exams to become a registered Professional Land Surveyor.
Building on the principles taught in Principles of Boundary Law I, this course covers special topics such as water boundaries, unwritten transfers, and writing legal descriptions, along with the roles of statute and case law in the boundary decision process. Students will be introduced to case law relating to boundary disputes, evidence, easements, adverse possession, rights of access and other topics. Students will complete a final project that will involve the application of legal principles to an actual surveying problem, requiring them to make boundary decisions involving conflicting evidence. Drawing on case law and real-life examples, students will grapple with the same types of questions that appear on the exams to become a registered Professional Land Surveyor.
This course introduces the student to the fundamental theories and techniques for horizontal and vertical measurements. The course combines emphasis on mathematical skills related to surveying measurements with applications of the use of survey instruments including automatic levels and total stations. Basic skills and knowledge of areas including horizontal and slope measurements, differential, profile and trigonometric leveling, traversing, data collection and fundamental construction layout techniques are taught. The course includes online lectures and a weekly field lab (offered remotely). Prerequisite: Students must have some professional experience with land surveying and access to survey equipment.
This course introduces the student to the various technologies currently used in land surveying and data acquisition applications. Theory and application are taught in the use of Total Stations, Photogrammetry, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as well as recent applications of Drone Survey technology and Laser Scanning. Emphasis is on understanding how the technology works and its application to various tasks within the land surveying profession. Prerequisite: Students must have some professional experience with land surveying..
