Overview

Project Professional's Guide to Construction Management 

About the Course

 The knowledge and abilities needed to interact with and efficiently manage field construction are covered in this course. While construction projects are discussed, the course will be especially helpful to project engineers who must oversee engineering, procurement, and notably field construction. The training covers excellent field construction management strategies to complete the project on schedule and within budget. Although many projects successfully implement front end loading, many others ultimately fall short owing to inadequate engineering or construction. This course, which has a construction-specific focus, offers the tools required to set up the correct field organization to handle engineering and procurement, two crucial components of successful construction. The case study focuses on a construction project that is facing difficulties on the job site (as a result of earlier bad decisions) and that the project leader needs to solve in order to succeed. Exercises, the case study, and class discussions all offer lessons that participants can use the moment they get back to the office.

Target Audience

 Project managers, project engineers, facilities engineers, construction managers, discipline engineers, operations employees, and all other disciplines that participate in integrated project teams for onshore and offshore projects are the target audience for this course.

 Course Objectives

•  How engineering should follow the construction timeline rather than the other way around How to make the 'Path of Construction' the driving force behind project success
• What a construction manager's typical day is like
• How to direct the construction contractor and persuade their field managers to complete the job successfully
• Achieving a successful project requires establishing the right owner's construction team in light of the construction strategy and challenges.
• How to communicate with the home office and the engineering contractor to make sure that requests for information from the field, engineering drawings, the scheduling of material deliveries, etc., promote project success
• How to use the daily craft foreman's work plan and a three-week look ahead calendar to keep the project on schedule
• What the owner can do to increase productivity to support ambitious project cost and schedule targets and the causes of low craft field productivity
• How to choose the appropriate construction approach given the project's overall contracting strategy (e.g., what tasks should be subcontracted out, what tasks the general contractor should perform via direct employment, what is the
•  (E.g., the owner's position inside the field construction organization.)
• The 'Fatal Four' concerns in regard to workplace safety in construction
• How to identify building locations that are challenging and need quick attention using field project controls and progress monitoring
• How to supervise the contractor to reduce construction claims as well as how to deal with a claim once it has been made.

 Course Outlines

•  The contribution of detailed engineering and construction management to FEED and field success
• Controls over field projects, earned value accumulation, calculation of field indirect costs, estimation of 'all in' field labor expenses, etc.
• The importance of temporary construction sites, infrastructure, field tools, and other elements to successful construction
• What makes a construction execution plan effective, and how can project managers and construction managers use it to make sure engineering and procurement support the field effort?
• The main elements of a construction field procedures manual and how project managers may use them to streamline the construction process and prevent rework.
• Methods to make sure field staff support the project manager to deliver a successful project (field superintendent, craft foreman, field engineering staff, and administrative staff) Advanced work packaging and how it effectively integrates material, engineering, field labor, scaffolding, and equipment to keep the project on schedule
• Contract types, choosing the right contractor, and managing contractors well directing the claim procedure for construction
• The necessity of a detailed communication strategy for field construction to guarantee that project controls, engineering, and procurement assist field construction
• using a method that is efficient for choosing field construction contractors, such as reviewing RFQs and conducting contractor interviews.
• ow to properly carry out a constructability study with the contractor and owner