Effective construction project management offers numerous advantages to owners, enhancing the potential for successful project completion. This includes meeting project deadlines, adhering to budgetary constraints, and avoiding financial or legal complications. Construction management is a specialized professional service that utilizes project management techniques to supervise the entire project lifecycle, encompassing planning, design, and construction phases.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this Construction Project Management training course, attendees will be able to:

Become proficient in using vital project management processes
Be able to produce key project management documents
Define the outcomes that clients and their construction project teams need to achieve
Recognize the core principles of construction project delivery
Describe what a project, project management, a project team and a project manager are
Identify the eight stages of the delivery process for a construction project
Understand what key activities should take place at each stage of project delivery
Recognize the key role that commissioning, training and asset documentation play in successful project delivery
Appreciate the need to provide post-handover support to client stakeholders
Share international best practice about the delivery of construction projects
Undertake effective administration of construction contracts, whether working for client, contractor or consultant
Be clear on the key components of construction contracts and what constitutes good contract administration.

Who Should Attend?

Construction Project Management Training Course is designed for staff from contractor, design, and client organizations including:

Civil engineers- Assistant project managers- Construction managers – Construction professionals –
Quantity surveyors –Architects – Project engineers – Planning supervisors – Cost and planning engineers.
Anyone who work in the construction project management sector and are looking to gain core knowledge and skills required in the industry

Course Outlines:

Introduction and Overview

Introductions, house-keeping and course objectives
Project Management definitions
Characteristics of construction projects and project management
Introduction to the COP 8 Stages of Project Management
Comparison between CIOB COP and RIBA Plan of Work; BIM Plan of Work; BS6079-1-2010; ISO 215000-2012; PRINCE2; PMI BOK and APM BOK
Key decisions, processes, objectives, deliverables and resources
Introduction of the case study

The Inception Stage: the methodologies contained in the COP for this first project stage

Stage checklists, processes, outcomes and client objectives
The internal team
The project manager
Project needs
Project mandate
Environmental mandate
BIM mandate

The Feasibility and Strategy Stages

Stage checklists, processes, outcomes and client objectives
Outline project brief
Feasibility studies
Procurement route
Sustainable development including life-cycle costing
Site selection and acquisition
Project brief
Design brief
Funding and investment appraisal
Development planning and control
Stakeholder identification
Business case and approval to proceed
BIM brief

The Strategy Stage

Stage checklists, processes, outcomes and client objectives
Project governance and selecting the project team
Risk management
Project planning
Cost planning and control
Change management
Design management process

The Pre-Construction Stage

Environmental management
Stakeholder management and communication
Quality management
Commissioning strategy
Procurement strategy
Employer’s requirements document
Project execution plan
BIM strategy
The Project handbook

Pre-Construction

Stage checklists, processes and outcomes
Managing the development of the design
Value Management and value engineering
Procuring the supply chain including managing tenders
Contract award and contractual arrangements

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