Microsoft Project for Construction

This seminar is delivered in 4- three hour instructor-led webinars covering the topics below. Register for an individual session by selecting your preferred courses from the selection below. All 4 courses must be taken for the full certificate and 2 Gold Seal credits; however you are welcome to sign up for courses individually. 

Topics:

Scheduling - 

• Create a basic project plan including Work Breakdown Schedule and dependencies
• Incorporate Milestones and Significant dates
• Identify/Manage the Critical Path
• Incorporate Job Deadlines
• Identify slack and project float
• Create an ‘Early Start' and ‘Early Finish' Schedule
• Create a ‘Late Start' and ‘Late Finish' Schedule
• Create a basic Impact Analysis using the Network Diagram
• Add a tolerance to the Critical Path
• Create a Trade Tracking Resource Schedule
• Incorporate changes to the Project Start Date.

Resources - 

• Create work assignments to trades, employees, subcontractors.
• Add costing and availability information.
• Incorporate the work quantities from estimates.
• Assign and manage overtime at overtime rates.
• Re-distribute and re-assign actual work.
• Resolve over allocated personnel, equipment issues. Adjust individual workloads.
• Share heavy equipment or specialized personnel over multiple projects and monitor availability.
• Assign Saturday or off hours work by trade or task
• Monitor resources by tasks, work completion rates, availability, costs, projects li>

Trade Tracking - 

• Update projects and tasks.
• Record actual starts, work durations, finish dates.
• Record a delay and demonstrate the effect of the delay on other tasks.
• Record splits in work.
• Postpone or move work to alternate times.
• Create a 2, 3, or 4 week look ahead.
• Create a delay report.
• Compare actuals to planned dates and costs.
• Re-assign work.
• Accelerate schedules and note the effects on costs and time.
• Compare costs and schedules between projects.

Cost Control - 

• Create weekly and monthly cash flow reports
• Including subcontractor pricing
• Including variable cost rates for trades, personnel, and equipment
• Monitor budgeted Costs, Price, Profit Margins, Actual Costs and projected costs.li>
• Identify Project status when ahead or behind schedule and/or over or under budget
• Reassign work and identify effect on costing.
• Reschedule work and identify effect on costs.
• Create cost reports showing weekly performance from a cost perspective.
• Compare costs between projects.

Space is limited to 6 students, sign up today to gain valuable insight into one of the most helpful tools a construction professional can use in today's market.

Gold Seal has accredited this course for 2 Special Industry Credit (SIC)