Construction Project Management (10 Days)

Section One

• Overview of project management
• Project life cycle
• Characteristics of construction projects
• Developing knowledge of the construction site
• familiarizing yourself with different types of equipment, materials, subcontractors, and possibly locations

Section Two

• Selecting a contractor 
• The role of a contractor 
• The bidding process
• Public safety
• Time management

Section Three

• Cost management 
• Quality management
• Decision making 
• Working drawings 
• Knowledge of human resources 
• Project roles and organization structure

Section Four

• Project management process and knowledge areas
• Project Procurement & Contracting
• Project stakeholders
• Standard-form contracts
• Contract terms
• Contract administration issues (change orders. change directives, etc.)

Section Five

• Planning & scheduling
• Defining baseline progress curves
• Specifying project objectives
• Work breakdown structure 
• Activity definition

Section Six

• Estimating activity duration
• Activity dependencies and precedence relationships
• Critical path method (CPM) computations
• Resource-constrained scheduling 
• Duration compression using crashing

Section Seven

• Cost estimation
• Purpose & types of estimates
• Techniques for early estimates
• Preliminary and detailed cost estimating

Section Eight

• Cost components
• Economic feasibility analysis
• Estimating total project cost 
• Procurement
• Owner occupancy

Section Nine

• Maximizing the resource efficiency
• Project monitoring & control
• Measuring
• Analyzing
• Defining roles and responsibilities

Section Ten

• Earned-value analysis
• Reporting project progress 
• Assessment of cost and schedule deviations/performance
• Forecast project progress/cost at completion
• Developing communication protocols