Construction Management Series

Develop your emerging Engineers into Construction Managers

Based on what construction engineers say about PD needs

This series of training workshops is the outcome of collaboration of the National Committee for Construction Engineering (NCCE) and EEA which commenced with researching NCCE members. Construction engineers told us they wanted more learning opportunities on managing:

• Contracts
• Risk
• Design
• Health & Safety
• Projects

Skills to Reduce Construction Risk

The NCCE worked with EEA to identify the learning outcomes that would ensure that the Construction Management Series would provide the skills that reduced the risks for both clients and contractors.

The Construction Management Series is being rescheduled for the second half of 2013. Please register your interest to be notified of the release of course dates by contacting EEA through info@eeaust.com.au

Target Audience

Engineers involved in construction who are:

1. Looking to establish a career as a Construction Manager
2. A Construction Manager seeking to improve their skills

Course Outline

Project Management for Construction

This two day workshop will refresh and enhance your project management skills.  Project Management is a critical management techniques and enhances the capacity to deliver on time, to budget and fit for purpose.

Importantly, it will provide you with an overview of key elements of project governance whilst equipping you to better manage key stakeholders through effectively monitoring of works competed in progress and scheduled.

Outline

• Formalising the approach & process across the project team
• Articulating the critical pathway and ownership & assigning responsibility
• Developing the full project plan
• Effectively sharing the plan
• Monitoring & reporting on the project
• Stuff happens – dealing with things from left field
• Tender handover
• Effective resourcing
• Communication
• Look ahead programs/estimates to complete/monitoring

Design Management for Construction

This one day workshop addresses how to maximise the design outcomes through excellence in managing design consultants. The workshop covers value management, design procurement, design risks, constructability in design, safety in design and management of designers. Learning applies to both temporary and permanent works design.

Outline

• Understanding the need for better design management
• Tools to analyse and understand where value is best created
• Critical success factors for design management
• Developing  a comprehensive design brief that avoid issues
• The structure/roles and competencies required for best results
• Understand optioneering process, and dealing with constructability risks and safety in design risks
• Methods of monitoring Design progress
• Process of scope change management

Managing Construction Contracts

This two day workshop will discuss key concepts in contract management, with particular focus on construction.  Topics include creating a contract, managing performance including lateness and termination, liability in construction cases, disclosure, anti-competitive practices, payments, extensions of time, latent conditions, standards compliance, intellectual property and design work.  Many case studies with a construction context will be considered.

Outline

• Introduction to Law
• Creating a Contract including defining the terms and conditions
• Managing Contractor Performance in a Construction Context:
• Late Performance
• Termination Clauses
• Extensions of Time
• Latent Conditions
• Payments
• Force Majeure
• Assignment of Contractual Rights
• Risk
• Insurance
• Fitness for Purpose
• Liability in a construction context
• Disclosure during the negotiation phase
• Contract Negotiation
• Anti-competitive aspects
• Outsourcing vs In-house
• Types of contracts including alliance contracting
• Design and intellectual property
• The tendering stage
• Awareness of the kinds of construction disputes that arise and how to minimise them

Managing Construction Risks

This one day workshop presents the use of risk registers to identify, analyse and prepare treatments for risks encountered through all stages of a design and build contract. The course investigates the management of risk through

• Communication and Consultation
• Establishing the Context
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Treatment
• Monitoring and Review

Outline

• Understand how to effectively apply ISO 31000:2009 – Risk Management Principles and Guidelines
• Understand the risks in the key stages of pre-tender, contract award and design, and delivery, commissioning and handover.
• Identify, analyse and treat risks at each stage through the use of a risk register
• Understand the Risk Management Process from a Contractor/client perspectives
• Identify risks from sites, environment, design, resources, planning and more

Managing Construction Health & Safety

This one day workshop is designed to develop the knowledge and skills essential in implementing effective and proactive OHS management on site.

You will learn that compliance alone does not ensure a safe work environment; it relies on competent people, fit for purpose equipment, safe work practices and sound management techniques, enmeshed in an informed, just and proactive safety culture.

Outline

• Developing a safety culture – creating a proactive safety culture
• Legal framework & what it means – meeting and exceeding compliance
• Designing for safety – managing risk in safe design
• Ensuring site safety – getting the standard of safety that you expect
• Responding to incidents – incident management, notification, investigation and close out
• Industrial implications of OHS – keeping OHS issues, safety issues

Course Objectives

Learning Outcomes

1. Improve your understanding of contract law and techniques to effectively negotiate and manage a construction contract including how to avoid pitfalls and work through disputes.
2. Refresh and enhance your project management tools and techniques to better manage procurement, people, works and progress reporting.
3. Structure, selection and management of the design process to enhance value management, improve safety and ease of construction.
4. How to better manage key risks through a framework and process that is consistent with ISO 31,000 including how to interpret the corporate risk policy from the perspective of a particular project.
5. Develop the tools to assist you to understand how to create an appropriate safety culture onsite and to effectively utilise the health and safety function to improve outcomes.

Facilitator Information

Robert Bon - Managing Construction Contracts

Robert Bon is a senior Project Manager, a Chartered Professional Engineer and member of Engineers Australia. Robert's qualifications include Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), Master of Engineering Science and Graduate Diploma of Management (Technology Management). Robert has extensive experience and expertise in the planning and delivery of infrastructure projects including management of all phases of the project life cycle from feasibility, development of brief, project scoping, budget preparation, tendering, design, procurement, fabrication, construction and commissioning.

Robert’s responsibilities in the field of infrastructure have included master planning, design management, liaison with clients, developers, community, government and statutory authorities, applications for grant funding, development of contracting and execution strategies, contract administration, construction management and construction superintendence.

Peter Stewart – Design Management for Construction

Peter Stewart has 40 years experience in the civil engineering construction industry. Peter provided design coordination for several significant projects  in Australia, the most notable being the ACA award winning Woronora Bridge in 2002 and  Sea Cliff Bridge which was an ACAA finalist in 2006.

Peter was honoured with the Australian Civil Engineer of the Year Award 2005. He established his own consulting practice which commenced operations from 1st July 2006 providing professional services to the civil construction industry. These services cover construction methods, risk analysis, value engineering, option selection and also include Alliance contracting facilitation.

Alan Weston – Managing Construction Health and Safety

Alan has a construction and training background with experience in numerous areas of construction and related industries. He has instigated safety systems, process, reporting, and safety professional development for power generation, construction, mining, electrical, water treatment, facilities management and maintenance, and rail construction, maintenance and operations around Australia.  He facilitated the development and gained national accreditation for Certificate IV Safety Leadership OHS - Construction, a first for the Construction industry. This qualification is promoted by the Office of the Federal Safety Commission as an example of Best Practice
 

Iain Polley – Project Management for Construction

Iain has been involved in Project Management for over 30 years, as a practitioner, training consultant, trouble-shooter, scoping and planning facilitator, and, over the last ten years, as an competency assessor. Iain has worked with many organisations from both the private and public sectors, and has wide experience in different types and phases of projects. 

Iain has worked with engineers of all disciplines and with engineering organisations across all sectors of engineering.  Iain has a Grad Dip in Project Management and a Diploma of Training and Assessment Systems. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), and the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Peter Godfrey – Managing Construction Risks

Peter Godfrey is a civil engineer with extensive management experience. He commenced his professional career over thirty years ago and has progressed through engineering roles to senior management positions.  Peter has extensive experience in civil contracting, construction materials, equipment supply, local government and consulting industries. He has worked for Boral, CSR, William Adams, Brambles, Coffey, and the Tasmanian government owned Civil Construction Corporation (now part of Downer EDI Works).

In 1997, Peter established BAS Consulting, which provides senior management support in the areas of strategy development, change management and project delivery. Peter was the 2009 National President of Engineers Australia.

Registration

10% saving applies for Engineers Australia Members who provide their member number at time of registration

Course fees detailed below are inclusive of GST

The Construction Management Series is being rescheduled for the second half of 2013. Please register your interest to be notified of the release of course dates by contacting EEA through info@eeaust.com.au