Project Management: Planning & Scheduling Seminar
Part of Grantlun’s Construction Project Management Series
One in a series of intensive one-day seminars on Construction Project Management, this seminar focuses on the principles and best practices of planning and scheduling.
Planning & Scheduling provides construction executives and project management team members alike with an understanding of the planning and scheduling concepts and process steps needed to build civil works jobs on-time and within budget.
The Benefit of Planning and Scheduling
Effective planning and scheduling enables you to complete your projects on-time and within budget by:
- Clearly communicating the job’s work plan and resource requirement timing to the other business functions (Construction, Equipment, Accounting, etc.) within the company.
- Ensuring that labor, materials, equipment and subcontractors are on the job when needed.
- Predicting and mitigating the time and cost consequences of changes requested by the owner or caused by unforeseen problems.
- Notifying other departments within your company of the support you need and when you need it.
- Forecasting cost-to-budget variances and cash flow.
- Providing the documentation required to get paid for extra and changed work.
- Underpinning delay and acceleration claims.
In the civil works industry – where competition is fierce, and profits margins are razor thin – you can’t afford project delays, lost revenue or extra costs. Now, more than ever, it’s essential to conduct work efficiently so that you complete projects on time, stay within budget ... and recoup every dime your company is rightfully owed.
Managing projects the way you’ve always done it isn’t enough to thrive. Even taking project management courses while earning a business management degree isn’t enough to succeed. The average project management class doesn’t teach best practices that are required to thrive in construction – much less successfully manage highly complex civil works construction projects.
Created specifically for construction companies in the civil works industry, particularly those in the highway, bridge, pipeline, underground utility, and site work segments, Planning & Scheduling delivers the best practices developed and documented by Grantlun’s founder while working in the civil works construction industry for the past 35 years. Used by the largest and most successful civil works construction companies, these best practices will give you the practical knowledge, proven tools and competitive edge you need to grow in our recovering economy.
What You’ll Receive:
Process Maps are provided that clearly illustrate best practices.
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- Clarification of pertinent industry specific terminology.
- A detailed explanation of how planning and scheduling drives the project management process.
- Best practices used by the industry’s top companies.
- Process Maps that clearly describe what needs to happen at each step of the planning and scheduling process, who is responsible and the tools needed.
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