General introduction:

Principles of Construction management (CM) is a professional service that uses specialized, techniques to oversee the planning, design, and construction of a project, from its beginning to its end. Construction Management is a professional service that applies effective management techniques to the planning, design and construction of a project from inception to completion for the purpose of controlling time, cost and quality. The purpose of Construction management is to control a project’s time / delivery, cost and quality—sometimes referred to as a project management triangle or “triple constraints. CM is compatible with all project delivery systems, including design-bid-build, design-build, CM At-Risk and Public Private Partnerships. Professional construction managers may be reserved for lengthy, large-scale, high budget undertakings (commercial real estate, transportation infrastructure, industrial facilities, and military infrastructure), called capital projects.

Course goals and objectives:

This training on Principles of Construction management is created for construction company specifically on its regular process that deals with Planning, Design and Construction stages of a project as integrated phases rather than separate functions where modern management techniques applications to the Project Phases must be applied by construction managers. One of main objective is that participants will be familiar in the Major elements of the construction process which should be applied and adopted by any construction manager to ensure the project completion on time. It is a matter of involvement of construction manager experiences during Design to achieve the client requirement in terms of time and cost. Mean time preparing a cost estimating during the Design can be applied. Designers and Planners could prepare the cost saving at very early stage.

Course content:

During the course period, the instructor will explain, discuss, and analyze in detail with participants the listed principles of construction management that must be considered by construction managers to ensure that project will be delivered on time:

1. 1. Roles of contractor
   2. Work function
   3. Pre-construction activities
   4. Delivery Methods:  to be agreed  as a common target by all project team
   5. Team Leader Selection:  enough technical  experience
   6. Programming: to  be  familiar in  follow-up of the work activities
   7. Schematic Design :  prepared upon the project requirements
   8. Design Development:  should complies with the standards,  and the cost of the project
   9. Construction Documents: based on the approved construction methodology
   10. Estimating and Bidding:  standard methods of measurements  should apply
   11. Award of Contract :  verifying the tender documents
   12. Construction process:  to be implemented in sequence within the program
   13. Completion and Turnover: by stages, full completion, partial completion…etc .
   14. Construction activities documents
   15. Scope definition: List of services in Contract terms.
   16. Objectives: Clearly stated.
   17. Plan assumptions: Assume plan to start work.
   18. Pending decision: Set responsibilities and time for decision.
   19. Alternatives: Additional studies and ideas to be identified.
   20. Unique problem: List all serious problems and list actions.  
   21. Execution strategy: How the project will be executed. 
   22. Organization & Staffing: Very necessary.
   23. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). 
   24. Overall project plan:  How the project will be executed.
   25. Project schedule:  Project plan to be put in a calendar basis.
   26. Project budget: Cost information to be coordinated with the plan.
   27. Project cash flow.
   28. Finance for the project.
   29. Special site condition.
   30. Client satisfaction.
   31. Reports and other information required by Client.
   32. Mock – up samples in advance.
   33. How risk should be allocated.
   34. What is the level of flexibility for changes?
   35. Terms and payment.
   36. Responsibilities of decision makers.
   37. Close out plan: Formulate this plan in early stage.

Who Should Attend:

Principles of Construction management training are for those Client representatives, project directors, project managers and their deputies, contracts managers, architects, quantity surveyors, value engineers, cost control engineers, project engineers, site manager, material engineers, site engineers, site inspectors, and other engineers of different disciplines in projects, engineers who works in private and government sector, the fresh graduate engineers. Engineers who work with developers, investors, project managers, consultants, contractors, bankers, lawyers, and accountants