Construction Project Management

About the Course

This 5-day interactive Construction Project Management training course provides a comprehensive grounding in construction-specific project management best practices across complex initiatives. Delegates will gain specialised skills to expertly manage multifaceted construction projects by blending industry project management standards with field-tested tools tailored to the engineering and infrastructure context. Kicking off with foundational construction project management, delegates will explore estimating, planning, scheduling, cost control, and contracting for construction projects. Interactive sessions leverage real-world case studies to showcase practical applications across sectors like civil infrastructure, industrial facilities, commercial buildings, and specialty construction.

Key topics span: accurately defining engineering deliverables and work packages; detailed procurement planning for equipment, technicians, and materials; preventing cost and schedule overruns through risk analysis and mitigation; assessing site conditions and potential impact on productivity; applying last planner and lean project delivery techniques; ensuring strict compliance and quality assurance up to corporate policies and regulatory mandates; facilitating integrated project team alignment across contractors, inspectors, tradespeople; conducting constructability reviews to optimise designs and methods; leveraging Building Information Modelling (BIM) for enhanced project and asset visibility; tracking and managing fluctuating labour productivity metrics and causes for delays; streamlining project turnover and facility activation while applying documented lessons learned for continual innovation.

Delegates will tackle issues like managing fluctuating material prices, overseeing modular construction techniques, aligning multiple contractors and trades, monitoring safety incidents, capturing quality non-conformances, responding to client change requests, documenting delays for scope accountability, and optimising as-built project recovery.

Core Objectives

The delegates will achieve the following objectives:

• Remember terminology, roles, and processes unique to construction project management 
• Explain the construction project life cycle with considerations for complexity 
• Apply construction project management standards to plan, procure, and execute projects 
• Analyse plans to quantify materials, equipment, and labour and identify gaps or issues 
• Evaluate design alternatives, trade-offs, and solutions using value analysis 
• Create detailed construction schedules, procurement plans, and risk mitigation strategies
• Utilise metrics, last planner, and BIM systems to assess performance
• Explain recommendations for preventing cost and schedule overruns

Training Approach

This training course utilises an interactive, experiential learning model enabling delegates to apply construction project management best practices directly to real-world project scenarios. Through hands-on exercises and facilitated role-play, delegates will estimate engineering deliverables, create schedules/plans, conduct procurement analyses, prevent overruns, and optimise project closeout. Collaborative team assignments will require performing risk assessments, interfacing with simulated “stakeholders,” managing “issues” through root cause evaluation, integrating change orders, deploying workarounds, and presenting defendable recommendations. Peer-to-peer coaching will foster engagement. The varied individual, small team, and cross-functional group activities aim to actively challenge learners to synthesize formulas, tools, and interpersonal techniques for excellence in construction project leadership.

The Attendees

This training course suits project management leaders overseeing complex construction initiatives seeking to elevate competencies in applying tailored project management best practices for optimal capital project delivery.

Likewise, it will be valuable to the professionals but not limited to the following:

• Process Improvement Specialist
• Project Manager
• Operations Manager
• Business Analyst
• Public Sector Quality Lead
• Compliance Officer
• Team Leaders

Daily Discussion

DAY ONE: OVERVIEW OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Foundations of Construction Project Delivery
• Core Roles and Responsibilities on Project Teams
• Understanding Key Construction Project Phases
• Primary Challenges and Opportunities in Construction Project Management
• Construction Cost Estimating Fundamentals
• Introduction to Last Planner Methodology
• Leveraging BIM and VDC for Construction Visibility

DAY TWO: CONSTRUCTION PROJECT PLANNING & SCHEDULING

• Defining Engineering and Construction Deliverables
• Developing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
• Creating Master Schedules and Integrated Plans
• Managing Construction Schedules with CPMS
• Understanding Critical Path Identification and Analysis
• Promoting Collaboration Across Project Teams
• Aligning Trades to Construction Schedules and Plans

DAY THREE: CONSTRUCTION BUDGETING AND COST MANAGEMENT

• Building Cost Baselines and Expenditure Forecasts
• Tracking and Controlling Construction Project Costs
• Managing Equipment, Worker, and Materials Pricing
• Construction Accounting: Commitments, Invoices, Payments
• Earned Value Management for Construction
• Contingency Planning through Risk Registers
• Reporting on Project Financial Health

DAY FOUR: CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY CHAIN & PROCUREMENT

• Strategic Sourcing in Construction Projects
• Evaluating Vendors or Subcontractors
• Negotiating Procurement Agreements
• Managing Logistics of Material and Equipment Orders
• Mitigating Supply Chain Risks
• Auditing Contractor Performance
• Change Order and Claims Management

DAY FIVE: CONSTRUCTION PROJECT CLOSEOUT & BEYOND

• Commissioning, Turnover, Facility Activation
• Punch lists and Certificate of Substantial Completion
• Documenting As-builts vs Original Specifications
• Transferring Operations and Maintenance Knowledge
• Obtaining Occupancy Certificates
• Conducting Post Project and Process Reviews
• Improving Asset Lifecycle Management