General introduction:

Principles of Construction Project Management Applications and Techniques is a training for Construction project management handles the various phases of a construction project. Projects can be anything from residential, commercial, and industrial buildings to airports, roads bridges and other development projects. Different roles associate with different phases of the project’s development. Construction project management is a common project management profession focusing on building or construction projects. Construction project management jobs vary and cover a range of construction work, from small-scale builds to large-scale construction projects.  The leadership role of a construction project manager (CPM) has a big scope, often managing and controlling the team and processes where expertise in areas of project management can be involved such as planning, communication, stakeholders, and budget control.

Course goals and objectives:

Principles of Construction project management applications and techniques is a training for managers which usually specialize in a particular area, depending on their skills and experience. Trainees will have great benefits of the course outcomes like learning how to Manage a construction process which is considered high-level project management and learning about the implications of six phases that that construction project managers must oversee such as  conception for issuing project initiation document, pre-construction/ planning phase ( may refer to 9 plans of PMP) , project execution and beginning of work activities, monitoring where progress and quality that should be monitored, occupancy that is relates to the warranty owner of the project  and closing where learned lesson report, client acceptance, report, final approved budget report and learned lessons report will be issued.

Course content:

During the training period, the instructor will explain, discuss, and analyze in detail with participants the principles, applications and implications of construction project management that will be demonstrated during the session such as:

• Principles of construction management
• General principles of project management
• Roles of construction project manager
• Procurement of construction phase
• Managing and controlling changes and variations
• Monitoring work progress at the site
• Controlling costs and expenditure during construction
• Document control system and records
• Verification of tender file
• Reviewing drawings, BoQ, technical specs and CoC
• Standards of construction
• Resource allocation and optimization
• Interaction process with other project participants
• Project initiation and planning
• Cost estimating and control
• Present worth analysis & future worth analysis
• Contract administration
• Cost management
• High-level project management
• Involving stakeholders in every change of plans
• Keeping track of team, materials, and costs
• Logging hours on the job site
• Quality, team, and time management
• Cost reduction and value engineering
• Project planning
• Reading all contracts thoroughly
• Safety management
• Staying on schedule and avoiding slippage
• Principles of lean project delivery
• Sustainability and sustainable material
• Environment, Health, and safety
• International view of construction industry

Who Should Attend:

Principles of Construction Project Management Applications and Techniques is for 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