Gold Seal has accredited this course for 2 Special Industry Credit (SIC)
Overview
This seminar is delivered in 4 three hours instructor-led webinars covering the following topics:
Topics
Scheduling
- Create a basic project plan including Work Breakdown Schedule and dependencies
- Incorporate Milestones and Significant dates
- Identify/Manage the Critical Path
- Incorporate Job Deadlines
- Identify slack and project float
- Create an ‘Early Start’ and ‘Early Finish’ Schedule
- Create a ‘Late Start’ and ‘Late Finish’ Schedule
- Create a basic Impact Analysis using the Network Diagram
- Add a tolerance to the Critical Path
- Create a Trade Tracking Resource Schedule
- Incorporate changes to the Project Start Date.
Resources
- Create work assignments to trades, employees, subcontractors.
- Add costing and availability information.
- Incorporate the work quantities from estimates.
- Assign and manage overtime at overtime rates.
- Re-distribute and re-assign actual work.
- Resolve over allocated personnel, equipment issues. Adjust individual workloads.
- Share heavy equipment or specialized personnel over multiple projects and monitor availability.
- Assign Saturday or off hours work by trade or task
- Monitor resources by tasks, work completion rates, availability, costs, projects li>
Trade Tracking
- Update projects and tasks.
- Record actual starts, work durations, finish dates.
- Record a delay and demonstrate the effect of the delay on other tasks.
- Record splits in work.
- Postpone or move work to alternate times.
- Create a 2, 3, or 4 week look ahead.
- Create a delay report.
- Compare actuals to planned dates and costs.
- Re-assign work.
- Accelerate schedules and note the effects on costs and time.
- Compare costs and schedules between projects.
Cost Control
- Create weekly and monthly cash flow reports
- Including subcontractor pricing
- Including variable cost rates for trades, personnel, and equipment
- Monitor budgeted Costs, Price, Profit Margins, Actual Costs and projected costs.li>
- Identify Project status when ahead or behind schedule and/or over or under budget
- Reassign work and identify effect on costing.
- Reschedule work and identify effect on costs.
- Create cost reports showing weekly performance from a cost perspective.
- Compare costs between projects.
Space is limited to : 6 students, sign up today to gain valuable insight into one of the most helpful tools a construction professional can use in today’s market.
Cost of this course is $941+ applicable taxes for Canadian Customers Only and course runs from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time
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