Construction Project Time Management

Description

Construction project time management is a professional-level training course designed to equip construction professionals with the knowledge and practical skills required to plan, schedule, monitor, control, and optimize project time. The training course focuses on developing realistic construction schedules, resource-loaded programs, critical path analysis, progress monitoring, delay analysis, schedule recovery, and time-related claims. It combines project management principles with practical construction planning and scheduling techniques. This training course presents aspects of construction project time management, and it outlines the six process groups based on the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge (PMBoK). It guides as to how time is managed during the entire life of a construction project and it presents the detailed processes involved in an effective construction project management practice. The training course further outlines updated and effective time management practices that would enable construction project minimize time overruns and it provides information that would assist the construction industry apply consistent and coherent time management practices. In this professional training course, practical applications, case studies and project-based scenarios are included. Topics covered include the following:

• Construction project time management policy, principles and considerations
• Construction project time management process groups
• Plan time management
• Define activities
• Sequence activities
• Estimate activity durations
• Develop schedule
• Control schedule

Outcomes

Upon the completion of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Adequately explain construction project time management policy, principles and considerations
• Sufficiently describe the six construction project time management process groups
• Prepare time management plan for construction projects
• Perform definition and sequencing of activities
• Estimate activity durations
• Adequately perform all activities pertaining to developing schedule

Target audience

The target audience for this training course includes construction project managers, civil engineers, architects, quantity surveyors, contract administrators, planning engineers, project control engineers, consultants, contractors, developers, procurement professionals, and client representatives.