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Our highly effective computer training courses designed for Construction will help to guide your staff by enhancing their current skills and improving their overall productivity.

Microsoft Project for Construction

Gold Seal has accredited this course for 4 Special Industry Credit (SIC)


Overview

This course will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Project. During the course, you will participate in various hands-on exercises ranging in complexity and type. You will learn everything you need to maximize your use of Microsoft Project!

The course will show you how to plan, monitor, and schedule projects using resources such as people, equipment, time, and money. This course will provide you with the skills to effectively track and analyze projects with a better understanding of the schedule and impact of changes.

The course is delivered as 4 three hours instructor-led webinars or as a 2-day onsite course. Please contact us if you are interested in an onsite course.

The course 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.

    Cost of this course is $1081+ applicable taxes for Canadian Customers Only and the course runs from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time



    Schedule

    Remote Workshop
    Dec 10th, 2024
    Dec 12th, 2024
    Dec 17th, 2024
    Dec 19th, 2024
    Instructor-Led Webinar
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    Jan 14th, 2025
    Jan 16th, 2025
    Jan 21st, 2025
    Jan 23rd, 2025
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