Employment of major construction equipment and estimation of their production. A comprehensive introduction to concrete constituents, admixtures, construction methods, and testing. The course also introduces the types of mixers, ready mix concrete, pumping equipment, hot weather concreting, shotcreting, precast, cast-in-place, and prestressed concrete construction. It also covers formwork design for walls, columns and slabs as well as the employment of concrete construction equipment and calculation of their productivity of equipment including excavators, pile drivers, dumping trucks, and other types of heavy equipment.