Successful Construction Project Administration and Scheduling
21 Professional Development Hours
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the contracting process, risk allocations and project delivery systems
- Establish a project documentation and control system
- Perform project schedule/time analysis, critical paths, floats/resource allocation
- Delay impact and acceleration
- Identify dispute causes to avoid claims
- Design and implement an effective dispute management system
- Effectively conduct the process of substantial completion and project hand-over
Description
Most organizations cannot afford the personnel time to apprentice a field administrator-in-training. As a result, many field representatives are sent to a project unprepared to deal with the specific responsibilities associated with comprehensive field administration. This practical four-day course will fill that gap and focus on the technical and personal responsibilities involved in on-site construction observation, supervision, and coordination.
The course will increase your knowledge of construction practices and control techniques and develop your contract administration and decision-making skills by studying potential risks before the start of a project. It will also show you how to avoid disputes, manage and settle them, and finally conduct substantial completion and close out the contract.
Course Outline
- Project life cycle and risk management
- Project delivery systems and organization
- Construction phase documentation and control systems
- Scheduling and tracking work progress
- Effective project monitoring
- Delay impact and acceleration
- Changes, disputes, claims and prevention
- Dispute management and resolution
- Substantial completion and project hand-over
- Workshops
Who Should Attend
Project Managers • Engineers • Contract Managers and Coordinators • Designers • Architects • Contractors • Construction Management Personnel • Construction Inspectors • Procurement Specialists • Field Engineers • Subcontractors • Project Technicians and Technologists • Developers • Business Owners • Consultants • Government Employees • Public-Sector Employees and others concerned with the ultimate success of a project.
Course Syllabus
DAY 1
Welcome, Introductions, Workshop Preview, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods
Risk Management throughout the Project Life Cycle
- The project life cycle from needs definition to project hand-over
- Reviewing the fundamentals of project risk management
- Risk identification and classification
- Risk Priorities
- Contractual risk allocation and management
Workshop I
- Case Study: Risk Management and Allocation between Parties for Effective Project Management
- Discussion of lessons learned
Project Delivery Systems and Organization
- Examining different types of contracting risk elements and how to analyze and manage them
- Role of the parties and their responsibilities
- Methods of payment: fixed unit price, lump sum, cost-plus contracts, and other forms
- Project Administrator – their roles and responsibilities
- Public-Private Partnerships (P3s)
Workshop II
- Case Study: Select the most appropriate delivery system to meet the owner's requirements
- Discussion of lessons learned
DAY 2
Construction Phase
- Contract administration in the field
- Roles of the parties
- Contractual Roles
- Pre-construction activities
Workshop III
- Case Study: Establishing a Responsibility Matrix and Line of Communication for Effective Site Administration
- Discussion of lessons learned
Project Documentation and Control Systems
- Definition of records and their types
- Keeping good records
- Hierarchy of records
- The record as a constructive tool in dispute prevention
- The documentation process
Workshop IV
- Case Study: Designing Forms for Different Administrative Activities
- Discussion of lessons learned
Scheduling and Tracking Work Progress
- Scheduling techniques and project planning
- Developing the schedule
- Project precedence diagram, time analysis, critical path and floats
- Resource management and its impact on the schedule
- Time-cost relationship, project compression and acceleration
DAY 3
Workshop V
- Case Study: Scheduling and Resource Management
- Discussion of lessons learned
Effective Project Monitoring
- Monitoring job progress and scheduling requirements
- Delay analysis and project acceleration
- Earned value and project monitoring
Workshop VI
- Case Study: Delay Impact and project acceleration - an Earned Value Analysis (EVA) Example
- Discussion of lessons learned
Changes/Extras, Dispute & Claim Causes and their Prevention
- Sources of change and change evaluation
- Suspension of work and re-sequencing of work
- Variation orders and variations in estimated quantities
- Differing site conditions
- Defective specifications and drawings
- Unforeseen conditions
DAY 4
Workshop VII
- Case Study: Project Documentation and Dispute Management
- Discussion of lessons learned
Claim Prevention and Management
- Mitigation of claims
- Documentation of claim events
- Knowing your contract
- Do not waive claims
- Monitor job progress
- Monitor the impact of the schedule
Dispute Management and Resolution
- Strengths and weaknesses of alternative strategies such as Negotiation, Mediation, Project Neutral, Arbitration, and Litigation
- Discussion of available strategies during and after construction is complete
- Controlling the costs of the process while resolving disputes
Workshop VIII
- Case Study: Video presentation – Resolving a Dispute through Mediation
- Discussion of lessons learned.
Substantial Completion and Project Hand-Over
- Commissioning and handing-over
- Substantial completion
- Preparation of punch list
- Starting of systems
- Conclusion
Discussion on Workshop Findings
Case Studies/Discussion
Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes
Concluding Remarks and Final Adjournment
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COURSE CREDIT
Almost all of EPIC's courses offer :
- 2.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and
- 21 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
These course credits will help attendees earn training requirements for their associations or provincial governing bodies.