Project Planning, Scheduling & Control
Gold Seal: 5 Credits * BC Housing: CPD Points TBD
Description
Save money on your projects, build the brand recognition and reputation that you desire for yourself and your business by learning to effectively manage your project's schedule, costs & resources. Effective planning, scheduling, and control, is the difference between being on time, or behind time; making money or losing money; and most importantly being stressed-out or stress-free. In these trying times it is more important than ever to have the tools, skills, and knowledge to adapt and be agile on your projects. This Gold Seal accredited course will provide you with the fundamental skills and knowledge required to successfully plan, schedule, and most importantly control simple to complex construction projects. This online course provides participants with both the technical and soft skills to be successful in managing your projects.
Through this course you will learn to:
- Manage projects to deliver on time
- Analyze and determine sequence and duration of construction activities
- Plan for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous (VUCA)
- Apply change and claim management principles and conduct time impact analysis to your project
- Learn both the soft (leadership, communication, management) and technical side of project management planning and scheduling
- Plan construction activities for various building projects
- Apply and manage resources effectively
- Develop and review critical path method (CPM) schedules
- Develop a construction plan and schedule (baseline schedule)
- Develop effective short term look ahead schedules
- Monitor, control and update project progress including accelerating and delaying construction using the DIRECT Anatomy of a Recovery Method
- Analyze performance and productivity information from past construction projects for use in planning future projects
- Identify bottlenecks, and waste use the Ching FOCCCUS method and Lean thinking to reduce and eliminate them
- Change and claim management identification and relief documentation
- Manage time, cost, quantity, and quality performance for construction projects
- Ensure proper communication structures are in place to effectively implement the planning and scheduling process
- Implement a number of management and leadership skills that are required to successfully plan, schedule and control projects
This course is suitable for anyone involved in the management of construction projects including:
Project Coordinators
Facilities Managers
Assistant Superintendents
Superintendents
Assistant Project Managers
Sub-contractors
Project Managers
M&E coordinators
LEED coordinators
BIM coordinators
Architects and Designers
Estimators
Field Engineers
Course Duration
This online course will be delivered both synchronously with three live 2-hour webinars, plus asynchronously with 22 added recorded sessions that you can access directly through online links provided. There will be one online multiple-choice test to complete. The total duration of the course is 30 hours.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Attendance and participation in all three workshop sessions are mandatory for workshop completion. * Please note that if a student misses a class session, we are unable to transfer a registration or provide a partial refund of the registration fees*
Delivery Method: Virtual Session – Zoom Meeting
Course Fee Includes: Access to the course, course materials, and a digital certificate upon completion.
This course is delivered in partnership with local and provincial construction associations across Canada. You will be participating with a group of industry peers from multiple regions.
Sharing a single registration between two or more individuals is not permitted. Please register each person that will be in attendance.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this session.
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for anyone involved in the management of construction projects including:
Project Coordinators
Facilities Managers
Assistant Superintendents
Superintendents
Assistant Project Managers
Sub-contractors
Project Managers
M&E coordinators
LEED coordinators
BIM coordinators
Architects and Designers
Estimators
Field Engineers
Technical Requirements
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Computer or laptop
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This course will involve on-screen interaction with your instructor and classmates, reading/viewing on-screen content (slides or videos), and interacting via typing with questions or responses. For this reason, cellphones may not be adequate.
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Windows 10 or Mac iOS.
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Webcam (Mandatory)– in order to engage and collaborate, participants will be expected to have their webcams on for the duration of the class
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Microphone (Mandatory)
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Internet connection- For best results, you will want to ensure you have an internet connection with an upload/download speed of 3-5 Mbps. You can test your internet speed here. The minimum recommended speed is 1.5 Mbps, but anything below 3 Mbps may result in loss of quality or buffering. Ideally hardwired connection versus wireless for stability - connect your computer directly to your router using an ethernet cable, rather than using your home wi-fi.
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A quiet space with minimal distractions –The microphone will be engaged for interactive sessions. Please plan to be fully engaged in the class and clear your work schedule just as you would for the in-class program.
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Comfortable chair