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.

• Target Audience

• Learning Outcomes

• Course Outline

• Series Facilitators
  

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

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.
    

Course Outline

Facilitator Information

Anthony Gray – Managing Construction Contracts

Professor Anthony Gray has delivered Contract Management courses for Engineers Australia for ten years. He runs 26 of these courses each year, in various cities around Australia. Feedback from participants in these courses is typically extremely positive. He also trains employees in various engineering firms, including Thiess, Thales and Defence. He is a lawyer with a background in commercial law. He has been a Director of the Queensland Law Society, and currently works as Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, in addition to his consulting role in the area of Contract Management. He was recognised for his services in this field with his inclusion in Who’s Who in the World in 2009.

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

lan 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

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

The dates for each of the workshops in the series are shown below:

A 10% discount applies to EA Members.

The registration fee covers all Five Workshops. When registering select the first date of the series in your preferred location.