1. B. Sc. (Hons) Construction Management B. Sc. (Hons) Construction Management Chia Fah Choy chiafc@mail.utar.edu.my Faculty of Engineering and Science Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak 53300 Kuala Lumpur Phone: 03-4107 9802 Fax: 03-4107 9803 Email: fes@mail.utar.edu.my

2. UEMC 2513 Building Economics and Finance UEMC 2513 Building Economics and Finance Chia Fah Choy chiafc@mail.utar.edu.my Faculty of Engineering and Science Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak 53300 Kuala Lumpur Phone: 03-4107 9802 Fax: 03-4107 9803 Email: fes@mail.utar.edu.my

3. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 Chia Fah Choy, Senior Lecturer, UTAR B. App. Sc. (Hons.) Construction Management and Economics M. Sc. Construction Management (Project Management) PhD Candidate QUT International Doctoral Scholarship

4. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 UEMC 2513 BUILDING ECONOMIC AND FINANCE Part A – Building Economics Part B – Finance

5. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 UEMC 2513 BUILDING ECONOMIC AND FINANCE Part A – Building Economics 1.Investment Analysis 2.Life Cycle Costing 3.Introduction to Urban Land Economics 4.Economics of Property Development

6. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 Textbooks Lucey, T. (2002) Quantitative Techniques, 6 th Edition, Continuum, London Seeley, I. H. (1996) Building Economics, 4 th Edition, Palgrave

7. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 Additional Reference Harvey J. and Jowsey E (2004) Urban Land Economics, 6 th Edition, Palgrave Manser J. E. (2002) Economics: A Foundation Course for the Built-Environment, Spon Press Myers D. (2004) Construction Economics: A New Approach, Spon Press

8. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 Assessment 1.Coursework: 30% a.Quiz: 10% b.Assignment: 10% c.Mid-Term test:10% 2.Final Examination: 70%

9. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 Student Comments NoComments 1 The lecturer is very experince in the unit, which is very much appreciated. Mr. Chia is strict in the class, which is good for the students. But, this lecturer has the favouring-certain-students attitude, which some other students may be ignored. Overall rate on the lecturer, satisfied. 2 he is the only lecturer that always bring in the new idea for us, however this semester he seems like giving more stress to us, i think that might be our learning attitude was let him upset. But i'm very enjoy to attend his class, 3 This subject are quite tough for me... in order to understand the concept. You are a really good lecturer as keep on advising us always... Thanks.. 4 From the way he conducts the lecture, one can see that he had put much effort in all his presentation slides and lecturing. He planned well on what to teach and clearly stated them out. As the subject is more towards calculation, perhaps it is better he could give us more exercises to be done in class rather than barely tell us verbally how the calculations are done. 5 Mr. Chia understand student's difficulties and provided useful resource and info together with a good presentation.maintaning the standard 6 explanation if can be made in a easier understanding way will be much more appreciated. question set up using hyper super difficult understanding words make the student confused.

10. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 Student Comments NoComments 1 Mr. Chia always have his way to teach us to make us more understand to the subject, provided with useful resource and info together with a good presentation. 2 some of us really weak for this subj. even only few formula, but sometimes really hard to catch even have do revision.

11. © Chia Fah Choy 2005 “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Churchill