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Project Management Seminars

Do you recall the last time one of your projects was completed on schedule and within budget? How about ahead of schedule and under budget? CMCCO's valuable project management seminars will show you ways to save time and money by applying better project management techniques. In these very practical programs you will learn how to select, motivate and lead project team members. You will also acquire proven, workable techniques to help you identify and solve your most pressing project problems, and learn methods for maintaining close control of your projects in today's uncertain business climate.

Whether your staff is large or small, the principles and practical applications of project management skills you learn at CMCCO will benefit you immediately.

In CMCCO's project management programs you will:

Build the necessary skills to manage projects faster, more efficiently and more predictably
Learn how to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Learn to manage conflict effectively
Learn the latest features and capabilities of Primavera Project Planner
Learn the importance of teamwork and successful project planning
Improve your skills in identifying and resolving the pitfalls to successful project completion
Achieve a competitive edge in managing your projects successfully

Professional Project Planning & Primavera Application

►Overview

Professional Projects Planning & Primavera Application is a practical seminar presented by professional engineers with extensive international experience.

This seminar will help candidates to prepare projects elements organization, develop a bar chart program, customize CPM, present cash flow & resource management, prepare all progress reports, prepare other control reports, present a revised plan & a revision for extension of time. Also it includes deep implementation of planning to serve project monitoring & contract administration such as: Implementation of resource management in planning evaluation, analysis & criticism of a base line plan, financial planning, shifted cash flow application, site facilities planning, implementation of resources management and bar chart revision in each category of construction.
Post Presentation Support and Possibility of free attendance for this presentation again, anywhere over Middle East region.

With this seminar additional unlimited free training is provided thru developing a complete plan for a typical sample project with full support as may be needed.

Possible Attendance: This seminar is intended for project managers, project directors, planning engineers and candidates intending to learn professional procedures in project planning & primavera applications.

Contents:

  • Introduction to Projects Plans

  • Project elements organization as pre-requisite for project planning.

  • Proposed strategy.

  • Overview on major plans

  • Good planning requirements

  • Preparation of project elements organization

  • Customizing Layouts

  • Organization layout.

  • Quantity Surveying layout.

  • Demonstrative examples

  • Data items Applications

  • Activity data items.

  • Resource data items.

  • Custom Activity data items.

  • Custom Resource data items.

  • Demonstrative Examples.

  • Customizing bar chart.

  • Building a bar chart schedule.

  • Float Bar, Late Bar

  • Customizing CPM

  • Demonstrative examples

  • Resource cash allocation

  • Cash flow diagram presentation for a plan.

  • Cash flow revision & update.

  • Demonstrative examples

  • Managing Resources

  • Resource dictionary organization

  • Resource Allocation

  • Resource histograms & table presentation

  • Histograms revision & update

  • Resources Leveling.

  • Demonstrative examples

  • Resources histograms implementation in bar chart evaluation.

  • Financial planning & shifted cash curve.

  • Site facilities planning.

  • Analysis & criticism of a bar chart plan.

  • Planning specification argument.

  • Assigning target plan.

  • Monitoring progress of work

  • Schedule update.

  • Progress reports.

  • Demonstrative examples

  • Revision of a bar chart schedule (infra structure project demonstration)

  • Revision of a bar chart schedule (building construction project demonstration)

  • Usual reasons for revising a plan.

  • Revision for extension of time.

►Practices:

  • Practice on developing a project plan, database buildup & organization.

  • Practice on developing a project plan, bar chart build up & resources management.

  • Practice on developing a project plan, progress reports & revised schedule.

  • Additional practices as may be needed.

Project Estimation & Cost Control & Access Application

►Overview:

   Projects Estimation & cost control systems development & Access database applications is a training seminar presented by a senior expert estimation & cost control engineer who has long experience in Estimation database organization & cost control systems development for large scale projects. 

   This seminar is to help in company simple resources organization, estimation department assembled resources planning, supplier prequalification, direct & indirect cost estimates, project integration management, procurement management, data collection strategy implementation, invoicing generation, insuring proper links between all company departments such as estimation, cost control, planning, quantity surveying, purchasing, ware houses, accounting and site management. Presentation of several cost control, reports including productivity & variance reports generation.
Also this seminar includes training support hours in developing a practice sample estimation & cost control project.

►Contents: 

Introduction to access database as a construction data management, Demonstrative example

Applications on major access database components, Demonstrative examples

Estimation database development, Simple resources dictionary, Assembled resources dictionary, Demonstrative examples

Project resources allocations dictionary, Estimation report generation, Demonstrative examples

All complimentary sections related to Estimation database, Demonstrative examples

Developing all complimentary sections related to estimation report, Demonstrative example

Integration of Cost Estimation with planning.

Cost budget generation.

RFD (Request for delivery) presentation & control.

Cost control database system development, Data collection strategy

Demonstrative examples

Creating database links with accounting systems, Productivity & variance report generation, Demonstrative examples

Practice on a project estimation data base development

Practice on a project estimation report development

Practice on a project cost control data base system development

Practice on a project productivity & variance report development

 

Contract Control & Administration & Expedition Application

►Overview:

It is a training seminar presented by a senior expert contract administration & control engineer who has long experience in project contract administration organization & Expedition software application.

This seminar is to help in company contract administration archive build up including all correspondent, letters, notices, proposals, change orders, quantity and cost variation management, claims generation process and follow up, material and technical  submittals management and follow up, design management and monitoring with shop drawing submittals and process follow up, purchase orders and contracts issuance and follow up with suppliers and subcontractors, material delivery tracking, log reports, invoices & many other contract administration documents organization & management.

►Possible Attendance:

Project directors, project managers, contract administration engineers, and any other candidate who wants to acquire the knowledge of contract administration organization and project documentation.

►Contents:

  • Introduction to contract control, overview on major documents used in contracts control, Documents organizations as AIA standards, Demonstrative examples

  • Coding format as CIS, Overview on Expedition basic applications, Start applying Expedition thru setting contacts, contracts & cost worksheets directories, Demonstrative examples

  • Managing contacts, purchase orders & submittals, Demonstrative examples

  • Using invoices & issuing requisitions, Recording & tracking communications, Demonstrative Example

  • Preparing transmittals, Storing & presenting daily reports, Demonstrative examples.

  • Recording minutes meetings, tracking material deliveries, Demonstrative examples.

  • Managing requests & changes, Presenting forms & reports, Demonstrative Example.

  • Linking organization to primavera plan where needed, Import & export of data with other systems, More reports presentations

  • Practice on setting contacts, contracts & cost worksheet directory, Practice on using invoices & issuing requisitions, Practice on recording & tracking communications

  • Practice on recording minutes meetings.

  • Practice on preparing transmittals & daily reports.

  • Practice on tracking material deliveries.

  • Practice on managing requests & changes.

  • Practice on forms & reports presentation.

 

Professional Project Management

PMP Project Management Professional Certificate Preparation

 

Introduction:

More organizations are turning to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK™ Guide) and Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification as the source of competency in project management excellence. Surveys by PMI® have proven that certified Project Management Professionals experience higher average earnings and hiring preferences worldwide. This seminar will prepare you to take this examination. It will cover all key aspects of PMBOK™ and will prepare you for the examination through review of material, daily test simulations, and examination taking tips.

Benefits:

You will review all key areas of the PMBOK™ with tips on how to remember specific information

You will take examination simulations that will heighten your readiness for a successful outcome

You will receive tips on taking the examination that will save you time on the examination day and raise your level of comfort

You will receive the recommended references for the PMP® Certification Exam

 

Who Should attend:

Project managers and team leaders who are preparing for the PMP® certification exam. Other project personnel and functional managers who work with projects will benefit from a better understanding of how their functional responsibilities fit into the total project management task.

 

Pre-requisites

You must be familiar with the basic elements of work breakdown structures, activity network diagrams and activity duration estimating, cost estimating, contracting, leadership and team development, quality management, risk, earned value management and organizational structures for projects.

Objectives:

Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:

Establish norms and ground rules for effective team communication.

Generate project requirements and the operational success criteria to be achieved by the project’s outcome.

Create a project Work Breakdown Structure with associated Specifications.

Design a project schedule with activities, durations and interdependencies.

Delineate, assign and track project resources and associated costs.

Identify and quantify project risks and develop resolution strategies.

Understand basic contract types and the project ramifications.

Identify, capture, measure and analyze important project metrics.

Create a high-performing project team focused on customer satisfaction.

Develop and document a comprehensive and integrated project plan.

Your seminar experience will cover:

Project Manager Role: Define project manager/project sponsor/functional manager/team member roles and responsibilities and understand the impact of different organizational structures and reward/recognition strategies.

Document Relationships: Relate the Statement of Work (SOW), Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and Specifications to each other.

Scheduling Processes: Identify activities, establish logical relationships, estimate durations, and determine critical path activities.

Estimating Methodologies and Budgeting Practices: Gain techniques for estimating costs, assigning resources, and acquire methods for measuring earned value and performance.

Quality: Distinguish and apply quality planning, assurance and control methods.

Risk Management: Learn identification, qualitative and quantification methods, response development strategies, and risk control techniques.

Communications: Understand the various types of communications and learn different methods and formats for gathering and disseminating project information.

Procurement: Identify the differing types of contracts, their intended usage, the motivations of the customer and supplier in each type, and their ramifications on completing projects successfully.

Team Structures/Practices: Foster effective communications and feedback among team members, customers, suppliers and managers.

Understanding the need to establish variance and change thresholds for scope, time and cost control.

Course Outline: e

The Project Management Framework, Context and Processes Developing a mental model

Developing a mental model for organizing and remembering the specific bits of information covered in the PMBOK™ Guide, the recommended references and the PMP® Certification Exam

Initiating Processes

Project initiation

Core Project Planning Processes

Scope planning and scope definition

Activity definitions

Resource planning

Activity sequencing

Duration estimating

Cost estimating

Schedule development

Budgeting

Project plan development

Facilitating Project Planning Processes

Organizational planning and staff acquisition

Quality planning

Communications planning

Risk identification, quantification and response development

Procurement planning and solicitation planning

e-Project Executing Processes

Project plan execution

Facilitating Project Execution Processes

Information distribution

Team development

Quality assurance

Scope verification

Solicitation, source selection and contract administration

Core and Facilitating Project Control Processes

Performance reporting

Overall change control

Scope change control

Schedule control

Cost control

Quality control

Risk response control

Closing Processes

Contract close-out

Administrative closure

Preparing for the Exam

Logistics

Test-taking hints

Practice exam

 

Project Manager Skills

►Overview:

In today’s world of complex projects, the successful project manager knows the importance of developing people skills to augment technical skills. This interactive and personal seminar takes an innovative and multidisciplinary approach in providing you with practical skills and hands-on practice in the "people skills" of project management. You will also gain valuable information about best ways to manage your stress level, career, and life direction.

►Contents:

  • Practice a variety of interpersonal communication skills required for project leadership

  • Learn and practice the best methods to use in motivating individual and team performance

  • Take a self-assessment tool that describes your preferred approaches to resolving conflict

  • Have the opportunity to practice different methods of resolving conflict

  • Learn how to respond when a personal crisis impacts the project team and threatens productivity

  • Undertake self-assessment experiences during the workshop to identify your work and personal values, and how to apply them to managing your career

  • Identify core competencies in career management and career transition, so that you "can take control" of your own professional life and assertively chart your own direction

  • Learn about recent developments in the area of stress management, and how to apply these findings to your career, personal well being, and professional satisfaction

►Your seminar experience will cover

1.Interpersonal Communication Skills-Identify and practice skills: Such as tracking the communication, active listening, open-ended questions, how to re-frame a point. Also covered are more subtle aspects of positive interpersonal communication, such as how to listen for the implied message, the importance of personal alliance and context, and how to minimize the presence of natural communication shortcomings such as denial, projection, displacement, and objectification.

2. Individual Differences: Methods for identifying individual differences and different personalities on your team, with a discussion of implications for communication, decision-making style, and learning style of each of these different types.

3. Motivating the Individual and the Team: How to create a motivation strategy by considering the interaction of team member personal style, career stage, and developmental (life span) stage. Also covered are the common "motivational mistakes" that project managers want to avoid using in their teams.

4. The Hats of the Project Manager: such as the roles of leader, manager, facilitator, mentor, and when to shift hats during the course of a project.

5. People Challenges During Project Stages: What are the most common people problems that emerge at the various stages of a project, and what can be done to address them?

6. Determine Your Own Preferred Approach to Resolving Conflict: Through a self-assessment and practice experience, your own most common approaches for resolving conflict will be assessed, with tips about where best to employ each of the approaches.

7. Handling Critical Incidents on the Project Team: What is a critical incident, how does it impact individual/team performance, and how can a critical incident debriefing assist team members in returning to productive levels of performance?

8. Managing Personal Stress: The recent research on how professionals can identify and manage the inherent types of stress present in project settings.

9. Taking Control of Your Own Career: Experiential tools and self-assessment devices will be used to give you greater insight into what are your work and life values, what excites you in the work place, and what is your passion in your life work.

10. Professional Transitions: How to use these six tools in making career changes: action-oriented resumes, two-minute introductions, informational interviews, developing the personal network, interviewing skills, and how to "qualify" a personal reference.

 

IT Project Management

Overview:

How well are you dealing with the “big ticket” project management problems plaguing software development/information technology (IT) projects? As the need to focus on schedules, costs and quality increases in both importance and urgency, it is more crucial than ever to understand and overcome the major inhibitors to achieving competitiveness. This insightful, no-nonsense, knowledge-rich educational seminar gives you the tools to handle these problems to ensure effective software/IT project management. You will learn project management best practices – including essential soft skills – from a leading authority with 30 years of success in managing software/IT projects. Prepare to learn more than just conventional project management; prepare to learn about yourself, human nature, and how to make things happen. Note: This is a project management seminar primarily intended for those involved in software development/IT projects; it is not a software development/IT process/methodology seminar.

Who should attend?
The seminar is for project managers, IT/MIS/functional managers, executives, team leaders, quality assurance personnel, and anyone and everyone involved in software development/IT: planners, developers, specialists, testers, writers and support personnel. Great refresher/booster for seasoned project managers.

How you will benefit
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:

· Identify and correct the most common “big ticket” project management problems for software development/IT projects.

· Employ proven practices that speed product development/IT implementations.

· Define and implement a software development/IT process.

· Implement effective scheduling, tracking and problem management.

· Improve vendor/contractor relationships.

· Examine project management problems that attendees are now experiencing and discuss their potential solutions.

· Bring about positive change in your team or project through leadership and motivation.

Your seminar experience will cover:

The soft skills element – Incorporate the people factor that makes a project successful and recognize attributes that contribute to the success of project leaders and project members.

Roles and responsibilities – Understand the roles and responsibilities of the project manager and other project members.

Problem identification and solutions – Identify the most common major problems that derail software development/IT projects and the solutions to help you avoid, recover or minimize their impact.

Rapid product development – Apply practices that can speed product development/IT implementation.

Project planning and control – Learn the steps to follow in planning and tracking a project and performing problem management; learn the project performance measurement of earned value management.

Vendors and contractors – Employ needed controls when working with vendors and contractors.

Reviews – Learn how to perform project reviews and post-project reviews.

Culture training – Learn how to create a productive, successful business culture for your project.

Your current project management problems – Discuss and develop solutions to your current project problems.

 

 

Project Feasibility Study

Overview:

It is a practical seminar presented by professional engineers with extensive international experience. The preparation of a feasibility study is a task which, if it is to be done well, requires inputs from many professional disciplines for the various components of the study, the most important of which are as follows: market analysis and marketing location, site and environment, engineering and technology, and financial analysis.

The seminar is done in an interactive atmosphere, also throughout the seminar there will be the opportunities for questions, and where appropriate, case studies will be introduced.

Who should attend:

Market & financial analyst, economists, engineers, social scientists, project managers, project directors and general managers.

Structure: 14 hours to be carried out over 3 days, including valuable supporting documents including feasibility study preparation manual (more than 300 pages with hundreds of help templates including tables, check-lists, work sheets, schedules and sample case- studies)

Contents:

Your seminar experience will cover the following:

Pre-investment studies and the investment project cycle

v Investment project cycle and types of pre-investment studies

v Basic concepts of pre-investment studies

v Rehabilitation and expansion projects

v Role of institutions, consultancy services and information systems

Market analysis and marketing concept

v Marketing

v Marketing research

v Outline of the project strategy

v Outline of the marketing strategy

v Outline of the marketing concept

v Marketing costs and revenues

3. Raw materials and supplies

Classification of raw materials and supplies

Specification or requirements

Availability and supply

Supply marketing and supply program

Costs for raw materials and suppliers

 

Location, site and environment

Location analysis

The natural environment

Environmental impact assessment

Socio-economic policies

Infrastructural conditions

Final choice of location

Site selection

Cost estimates

5- Engineering and technology

Production programme and plant capacity

Technology choice

Technology acquisition and transfer

Detailed plant layout and basic engineering

Selection of machinery and equipment

Civil engineering works

Maintenance and replacement requirements

Estimates of overall investment costs

6- Organization and overhead costs

Plant organization and management

Organization design

Overhead costs

7- Human Resources

Categories and functions

Socio-economic and cultural environment

Project-related requirements

Availability and recruitment

Training plan

Cost estimates

8- Implementation planning and budgeting

Objectives of implementation planning

Stages of project implementation

Implementation scheduling

Projecting the implementation budget

9- Financial analysis and investment appraisal

Scope and objectives of financial analysis

Principal aspects of financial analysis and concept of investment appraisal

Analysis of cost estimates

Basic accounting statements

Methods of investment appraisal

Project financing

Financial and efficiency ratios

Financial evaluation under conditions of uncertainty

Economic evaluation

 

Construction Site Management

 

Communicate to Influence

 

Value Engineering Analysis and Reports Presentation

►Overview:

VE is a technical training seminar presented by a senior expert project management consultant engineer who has long experience in VE analysis and costing for large scale projects.

This seminar will help candidates understand objectives of VE, budgeting cost control and function analysis diagram (fast diagram) with detailed procedures implementation, cost worth modeling generation, development of project life cycle costing modeling (LCC) and implementation.

This is presented with a practice project in preparing a VE report for a hotel in Riyadh with VE work book, valuable supporting documents and soft files.

►Structure: 12 hours to be carried out over 2 days, including valuable supporting document.

►Contents:

Session 1:

  • Introduction.

  • Objectives of value Engineering.

  • When to apply value Engineering.

  • Impact of Value Engineering.

  • Introduction to Project Scope.

  • Budget Analysis.

  • Elements of the project Budget.

Session 2:

  • Prevalent Budgeting Technical.

  • Cost Control & Fast Diagram.

  • Construction Cost Modeling.

  • Construction Worth Modeling.

  • VE & Total Project Management

  • VE Job Planning.

Session 3:

  • VE Function Analysis .

  • Fast Diagram Detailed Procedure.

  • Life Cycle Costing Modeling(LCC).

  • Delphi Technical Application.

  • Decision Makers Impact On LCC

  • LCC Methodology & Format.

Section 4:

  • Case Study for a hotel in Riyadh & Generation of a Complete

  • Value Engineering Report.

►Supporting Documents: Seminar documentation including value engineering workbook. Soft Excel work sheets for VE documentation & LCC factor calculations.

 

FIDIC Conditions of Contract

►Overview:

This practical seminar, provided by professional engineers with extensive international experience, explains and illustrates the use of the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Construction (the "Construction Contract") and the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Plant and Design-Build (the "Design-Build Contract").

►Possible Attendance:

The seminar provides the necessary knowledge for professionals from Government Ministries and Agencies, Private Sector Employers, Consulting Engineers, Contractors, Quantity Surveyors, Architects, Legal Advisers and all involved with the next generation of International Projects. It is particularly important to those involved in preparing or managing infrastructure projects financed under ISPA, as all contracts that are funded by the EU, will be under the FIDIC Conditions of Contract.

►Structure: 14 hours to be carried out over 3 days including presentation, workshop, valuable supporting documents, soft & hard templates for conditions of contract for building & engineering works, conditions of contract for EPC/Turnkey projects , guidance for the preparation of particular conditions and others from 1992 till 1999 edition.

►Contents:

1- Introduction to FIDIC Documents (Construction Contract/Plan Contract).

  • Background and reasons for change

  •  Examination of format and content of General Conditions

  •  Examination of Guide to Particular Conditions

2-Annex to documents, Selection of appropriate Contract, Responsibilities of Main Parties

  • General issues

  • Responsibilities of the Employer

  • The Engineer

  • The Contractor

  • Nominated Sub-Contractor

3-Management of Projects - Key Areas, Workmanship and Time

  • Staff and Labor

  • Plant, Materials and Workmanship

  • Commencement, Delays and

  • 4-Suspension

  • Tests and Defects liability

  • 5-Financial Clauses and Procedures

    • Measurement and Evaluation,

    • Variation and Adjustment

    • Contract Price and Payment

  • Guarantees, Bonds

  • Insurances

  • 6-Risks, Force Majeure & Termination

  • Termination by Employer

  • Suspension & Termination by Contractor

  • Risks and Responsibilities

  • Force Majeure

  • 7-Claims and Disputes & Arbitration

  • Claims procedures

  • Disputes Adjudication Board

  • DAB Agreement & Procedures

  • Amicable Settlement and Arbitration

  • Throughout the seminar there will be opportunities for questions, and where appropriate, case studies will be introduced.

     

    FIDIC Management of Contract Claims and the Resolution of Disputes

    ►Overview:

    Within all FIDIC contracts there will be claims. This training course is designed to provide practical assistance to those working with the FIDIC Contract Conditions (1992 till 1999 Editions) in the management of claims and achieving resolution to claims.

    It is applicable to all the Parties involved within a FIDIC Contract - the Employer, the Contractor, the Engineer, and the DAB Members. By having a professional understanding of the responsibilities and rights of the Parties under a FIDIC contract and the procedures to manage claims, the resolution of claims will be achieved more successfully.

    It is provided by experienced engineers, who have extensive involvement with FIDIC claims, disputes, adjudications, and arbitration procedures.

    ►Possible Attendance:

    The seminar provides the necessary knowledge for professionals from Government Ministries and Agencies, Private Sector Employers, Consulting Engineers, Contractors, Quantity Surveyors, Architects, Legal Advisers and all involved with the next generation of International Projects. It is particularly important to those involved in preparing or managing infrastructure projects financed under ISPA, as all contracts that are funded by the EU, will be under the FIDIC Conditions of Contract.

    ►Structure: 14 hours to be carried out over 3 days.

    ►Contents:

    The Management of Claims

    Claims: Causes and Risks

    • Inherent project risks

    • Allocation of risks under FIDIC contracts

    • Analysis of Contractual risks

    Claims Procedures

    • Clauses required notice by the Contractor

    • Employer's Claims

    • Delegation by the Engineer

    • Engineer's determination

     

    Contractor's Claims

  • Notification of Claims

  • Contemporary records

  • Preparation of Claims

  • Engineer's assessment and Principles of Claim

  • Engineers Valuation

  • Engineer's determination

  • Case Study on Claims Procedures

    • Actions by the Contractor

    • Actions by the Employer

    • Actions by the Engineer

    The Resolution of Disputes

    Principles Governing the DAB (Dispute Adjudication Board).

    • Referral to the DAB

    • Presentation of evidence to the DAB

    • The DAB's decision

    Working of the DAB

    • The FIDIC alternative procedure

    • Arguments for and against the alternative procedure

    Post DAB/Engineer's Decision

  • Implementation and Enforcement

  • Amicable Settlement

  • Arbitration

  • Case Study of Dispute Resolution by DAB

    • Presentation by Contractor

    • Employer's response

    • DAB adjudication and decision

     

     

    Risk Management

     

    Earned value Management

     

    Professional Procurement Management

    Overview:

    Procurement management, and especially contract administration, has become an essential project management skill as more and more of today's businesses outsource all but the company's core competencies. This course offers insight into the role of the procurement manager on a project team by guiding you through procurement practices, the solicitation of bids and contract negotiations. It will also expose you to contract law.

    Structure: 12 hours to be carried out over 3 days, including supporting document.

    Who should attend?
    This seminar is for project managers and team members who want to improve their procurement management skills and increase their understanding of roles and responsibilities of procurement on a project. It will be also useful to purchasing professionals who wish to transition to a project environment.

    How you will benefit
    Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:

    · Learn about procurement management processes

    · Define procurement planning requirements

    · Differentiate between “make or buy” source selection

    · Learn how to communicate during bid negotiation

    · Understand the impacts of waiving rights, bid rigging and contract law

    · Practice scope change control, scope verification, and cost, schedule and quality control

    · Negotiate an agreement

    Your seminar experience will cover:

    1. Procurement planning with a make or buy workshop
    2. Solicitation planning workshop
    3. Solicitation workshop
    4. Source selection workshop
    5. Contract administration with a waiver of rights workshop
    6. Contract close-out
    7. Contract law
    8. Negotiation with a role-playing workshop
    9. Integration and wrap-up

     

     

    Extension of time claims & Dispute Resolution

    Overview:

    The aim of this seminar is to help contract manager and project manager to analyze schedule delay events and acceleration cases together with acquiring the ability to compute related damages.

    Who should attend:

    Project managers, project directors, administrator and any senior project management candidates.

    Objectives:

    After this seminar the candidates will acquire a deep understanding ability for time related dispute & claims with appropriate procedure to tackle them including liability definition and procedural steps for compensation computation.

    Structure:

    14 hours to be carried out over 3 days including valuable supporting document and help templates.

    Contents:

    Day1: Phase 4a-Determining the Facts and Analyzing Entitlement

    A- Strategy and Perspective

    B- Using Narrative Text to Organize and Analyze Facts and Entitlement

    C- Determining the Facts and Analyzing Entitlement

    D- Dealing with Common Problems

    E- Countering owner defenses and defending against counterclaims.

    Day 2: Analyzing Schedule Delay and Acceleration

    A- General Introduction and Overview of Project Management Concepts

    B- Construction Scheduling Practices, Problems, and Solutions

    C- Critical Path Scheduling Concepts, Techniques, and Tools

    D- Timescale Arrow Diagrams

    E- Schedule Analysis Procedures

    F- Schedule Analysis Issues

    G- Detailed As-Built Schedules

    H- ELIPSE Schedules-A New Tool

    I- Other Tools for Scheduling Analysis and Exhibits

    Day 3: Phase 4b-Computing Damages

    A- General Comments and Suggestions

    B- Bid Estimating Procedures and Their Effect on Damage Calculations

    C- Cost Accounting Procedures and Their Effect on Damage Calculations

    D- How to Compute Damages and Equitable Adjustments

    E- Calculating Direct Costs

    F- Computing Compensable Delay Costs

    G- Identifying and Computing Impact Cost

    H- Computing Other Types of Damages

    I-Adding Markup

    J-Listing Below-the-Line Costs (Other Sums Due)

    K- Preparing a Cost Summary

     

    Design Management & Evaluation

     

    Construction Contracts & Contracting Management

    ►Overview:

    This practical seminar, provided by professional engineers with extensive international experience, explains and illustrates details procedures in contracts, contracting & contractors management

    ►Possible Attendance:

    Project managers, directors, engineers and any other candidates involved in the contract management and sub-contracting management in a project.

    ►Structure: 14 hours to be carried out over 3 days including valuable supporting document:

    ►Objectives:

    To discuss a detailed procedure for contracts & contractors management that in corporate adequate knowledge for all requirements of sub-contractors management and coordination and it includes the following details:

    ►Contents:

    1. Construction Contracting Methods

    • General Contract Method

    • Separate Contracts Method

    • Force Account Method

    • Design-Construct Method

    • Professional Construction Management Method

    2. The Nature of Contracts

    • Litigation

    • Descriptors of Contracts

    • Element of a contract

    • Estoppel

    • Form of a Contract

    3. Forms of Organizations

    • Proprietorships

    • Partnerships

    • Corporations

    4. Surety Bonds

    • Surety Underwriting

    • The Miller Act

    • The Bid Bond

    • Performance Bonds

    • Payment Bonds

    • Bonding Limits for the Contractor

    • Contractor Default

    • Subcontractor Bonds

    5. Construction Contract Documents

    • Drawings

    • General Conditions

    • Supplementary Conditions

    • Specifications Drawings

    • General Conditions

    • Supplementary Conditions

    • Specifications

    • Contract Obligations During Construction

    6. Unit Price, Cost-Plus, and Lump Sum Contracts

    • Terms of Agreement

    • Unit Price Contracts

    • Cost-Plus Contracts

    • Lump Sum Contracts

    7. Changes

    • Changes Clauses

    • Change Orders

    • Cardinal Changes

    • The Written Change Order

    • The Authority to Issue A Change Order

    • Change Versus Another New Contract

    • Conclusion

    • Example Cases

    8. Changed Conditions

    • Prebid Site Investigations

    • Differing Site Conditions

    • Example Cases

    9. Matters of Time Matters of Time

    • Construction Duration

    • Project Schedule and Preconstruction Conference

    • Working Days

    • Limitation of Operations

    • Liquidated Damages

    • Types of Delays

    • No-Damage-For-Delay Clauses

    • Exceptions of Time

    • Excusable Delays

    • Acceleration

    • Suspension of Work Clauses

    • Termination

    • Project Completion

    • Impact of Delays

    • Home Office Overhead

    • 10. Payments

    • Unit Price Contracts

    • Cost-Plus Contracts

    • Lump Sum Contracts

    • Final Payment

    • Retainage

    • Subcontractor Progress Payments

    11. Warranty

    • Express Warranty

    • Implied Warranty

    • Owner's Acceptance of Work

    12. Subcontractors and subcontracts

    • General Contractor—Subcontractor Relationship

    • Owner- Subcontractor Relationship

    • What Work is subcontracted?

    • How are Subcontractors Selected?

    • Submitting a Bid for a Subcontract

    • Awarding Subcontracts

    • Subcontract Provisions

    13. International Construction Contracts

    • Types of Contracts

    • Contract Awards in the Public Sector

    • Performance Bonds and Guarantees

    • Periodic Construction Payments

    • Time Provisions

    • Owner Acceptance

    • Safety

    • Insurance

    • Unique Considerations in Other Countries

    14. Methods of Dispute Resolution

    • Negotiation

    • Litigation

    • The Importance of Documentation

    15. Construction Safety

    • The Occupational Safety and Health ACT

    • Osha Inspections

    • Osha Fines and Penalties

    • Record-Keeping Requirements

    • Typical Safety Standards

    • Osha Compliance

    • Complaints About Osha

    • Should Citations be appealed?

    16. Labor Relations in Construction

  • Labor Relations Terms

  • Labor Agreement Provisions

  • Federal Laws Related to Construction

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    Safety Seminars

     

    Safety Systems Implementation

    ►Overview:

    Quality and quantity of staff training and update in safety systems implementation is our major factor in the reduction of accidents rates.

    This seminar is to help candidates in construction and industry who are managers or safety officers. To keep good safety records, apply safety checklists and documentation, improve company safety policy, update company safety manual, to insure abiding by any international safety requirements like OSHA, to have the ability to spread safety awareness between all other team members.

    The presentation of this seminar is done in an interactive atmosphere (slides & graphical presentation) with attendance share in practice. Also we distribute to each applicant a valuable supporting document.

    ►Structure: 12 hours to be carried out over 3 days

    ►Contents :

    This seminar is to cover the following:

    Construction Safety:

    ► General Site Safety:

    • Scaffold user and supervisor safety

    • Ladder safety

    • Aerial boom lift safety

    • Fall protection & prevention

    • Steel erection/Iron worker safety training

    • Electrical safety

    • Welding & cutting

    • Job site hazard recognition.

    • Concrete & masonry construction

    • Cranes & derrick safety

      ► Confined Space Entry:

    • Identifying-permit- required confined spaces and their hazards.

    • Proper utilization of gas monitoring equipment.

    • Methods to safely ventilate your confined space.

    • Duties of supervisors, entrants and attendants.

    • Requirements to rescue services and personnel.

    • Steps necessary to temporarily declassify a permit-required confined space.

    • How to take advantage of OSHA'S alternate entry procedures.

    • Ensuring your written confined space entry program & procedures meet OSHA regulations.

      ► Trenching & Excavation:

    • How to properly conduct soil test (visual &manual).

    • Understand OSHA regulations for shoring, sloping & benching and trench boxes.

    • Identify and control hazardous atmosphere lurking inside of trenches.

    • Locate and work safely around potentially deadly under ground utilities.

    • How to handle OSHA inspections at your trenching & excavation site.

    Industry Safety:

    ► General Industrial Safety:

    • Lockout/Tag out

    • Hazard Communication

    • Respiratory communication

    • Portable fire extinguisher use & fire prevention.

    • Emergency action plan.

    • Crane & hoist operation/Rigging safety

    • Blood borne/Pathogens

    • Noise/hearing conversation.

    • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

    • Welding and cutting safety.

    • Machine guarding.

     

    Safety Training Programs

     

    Technical Safety Procedures

     

    Design protection with Fire Code (NFPA) Implementation

    Overview:

    An 8 sections consulting sessions to assist engineers from different consulting offices to fully master the life safety code NFPA 101.

    The purpose of these sessions is to cover all the safety requirements and to help the engineer avoid common fundamental design mistakes and to get the design right from the first time leaving the technical monitor with as little corrections as possible.
    The sessions shall include a maximum of 10 to 12 engineers & major articles of NFPA 101 code are distributed.

    Structure: 12 hours to be carried out over 3 days.

    Content:

    A brief description of the sessions is as follows:

    Fundamental requirements, classification of occupancy and hazard of contents:
    This chapter will include all basic concepts to take into consideration while thinking about life safety from fire, and classification of occupancy into: educational , health care, residential, hotels, mercantile, business, industrial, storage, car parks and high-rise buildings. In addition to a classification of hazard contents. An introduction of means of egress will be exposed.

    Means of egress components: Doors and Stairs:
    This chapter will enclose all information related to the egress width and specifications of doors and stairs in general ,and additional information related to the different class of occupancy.

    Means of egress components: Smoke proof enclosures, Horizontal exits:
    This chapter will enclose all information related to the  specifications of smoke proof enclosures and horizontal exits in general ,and additional information related to the different class of occupancy.

    Means of egress components: Ramps, Exit passageways, Escalators and Moving walks:
    This chapter will enclose all information related to the  specifications of ramps, exit passageways, escalators and moving walks in general, and additional information related to the different class of occupancy.

    Means of egress components: Fire escape stairs ,Fire escape ladders, Areas of refuge ,Elevators:
    This chapter will include all information related to the  specifications of fire escape stairs, fire escape ladders, areas of refuge, elevators in general, and additional information related to the different class of occupancy.

    Means of egress specifications:
     This chapter will enclose all information concerning: The capacity, the number and the arrangement of means of egress, the measurement of travel distance to exits, the discharge from exits.

    Illumination, Signs:
    This chapter will include all information  related to the illumination of means of egress, emergency lighting, marking of egress and special provisions for occupancies with high hazard contents.

    Fire protection features, Fire detection and protection equipment:
    This chapter will include all features of fire protection such as construction and compartment , smoke barriers, special hazard protection, interior finish, furnishings contents.
    Moreover it will cover equipment of detection, and protection of fire such as smoke and heat detectors, alarms, emergency control, automatic sprinklers, manual extinguishing equipment and information related to the maintenance and testing of these equipment.

     

    Safety Application for Design Requirements

     

    Maintenance Management Seminars

     

    Project Maintenance Management Systems

    Overview:

    This Seminar will help your candidates understand and apply professional procedures for asset registration, maintenance planning, work order process implementation service calls handling, procedures understanding and application of predictive and preventive maintenance management.

    We remind you that the presentation of this seminar is done in an interactive atmosphere (Slides & graphical presentation) with attendance share in practice.

    Also we distribute to each applicant a supporting document including a complete maintenance management system with all the required forms and procedures to be used for professional maintenance management system implementation.

    This seminar is designed to help candidates who are involved in maintenance activities management or in maintenance projects management.

    Structure: 12 hours to be carried out over 3 days including valuable supporting document.

    Objectives: To provide participants with professional experience in maintenance management systems, understanding and implementation for large scale maintenance projects including new method for asset management maintenance planning and control, cost control, quality control and staff human resources management.

    Who should attend: Operation and maintenance managers, maintenance engineer, other candidates involved in operation and maintenance management programs, other candidates who are willing to update their organizational experience in maintenance management systems implementation.

    Contents:

    Section 1:

    • Introduction to maintenance management systems.

    • Definition & kinds of maintenance.

    • Benefits of maintenance.

    • Fundamentals functions of maintenance.

    • Asset registration & grouping.

    • Maintenance instructions (MI’S).

    Section 2:

    • Planning schedule (Master Plan).

    • Week-load forms.

    • Work dockets.

    • Year visual aid.

    • Rime priority system planning.

    Section 3:

    • Classical defects of maintenance.

    • Maintenance control & cost control.

    • Maintenance sub-contracting.

    • Troubleshooting systems.

    • Condition based maintenance.

    • Upgrading the quality maintenance.

    • Quality control system.

    Section 4:

    • Work order system.

    • Work scheduling execution & follow up

    • Work order cycle.