ASAMW PM Workshop
Thursday, January 06, 2022, 12:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
Category: Events
ASAMW Project Managers’ Workshop
Workshop Dates: Jan 6, Jan 26, Feb 3, Feb 17, March 3, March 17
Registration is Closed
Project Managers’ Workshop
Course Information
Start at noon at locations noted
Co-Chairs: Ameen Khouri and Lou Wicklein
Date
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Course
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Instructors
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Preferred Location – not confirmed
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Jan. 6, 2022
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PM Fundamentals 1
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Ameen Khouri and Lou Wicklein
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Capital Electric
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Jan. 26, 2022
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PM Fundamentals 2
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Steve Groth and Bruce Spengler
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Capital Electric
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Feb. 3, 2022
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PM Fundamentals 3
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Ted Warrington Kogok Safety Director, Doug Lotierzo with Neuberger
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Capital Electric
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Feb. 17, 2022
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Contracts
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Bruce Herr and Brian Wood
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HITT CoLab
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March 3, 2022
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Scheduling
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John Ficca from Aegis and Steve Groth
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HITT CoLab
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March 17, 2022
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Change Orders and Final Exam
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Ken Collins and Bruce Spengler
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HITT CoLab
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PROJECT MANAGERS FUNDAMENTALS I
- Team Building Exercise
- Building relationships in the industry
- Ok to ask silly questions
- Construction process and the big picture of a construction project
- The project manager’s role
- Why general contractors think differently than subcontractors
- Leadership and team building
- Communications and documentation including sample logs for RFIs, Change Orders and Work in Progress reports.
- Time and stress management
- Decision making
PROJECT MANAGERS FUNDAMENTALS II
- Project start up and planning
- Reading and understanding specifications
- Submittals and purchasing: the getting of the right materials on time
- RFI’s, and the tracking of issues
- Work in Progress reporting including sample logs
- Completing and closeout of a project
- Elements of bad project management
- Problem prevention
- Foundational Skills in communication, networking and management
- Networking and construction associations
- Building relationships for repeat work
- Intergenerational communications
- Adapting to COVID-19.
PROJECT MANAGERS FUNDAMENTALS IIl
SAFETY
- Consideration of the General Contractors/Army Corp of Engineers EM-385 safety rules and equipment requirements to complete work on-site. a. Time delays and cost involved by not considering the safety requirements.
- Basic OSHA cost considerations for noncompliance.
- How do these rules and requirements deviate from your company policies? What are the impacts? Examples of policies and equipment are: LADDER LAST POLICY
- SPECIFIC PPE to gain access to the site or to complete specific work tasking and costs associated with these items.
- SCAFFOLDING types and planning.
- MOBILE ELEVATED WORKING PLATFORMS (MEWP). ANSI rules, selection, and use.
- How working together with your Safety Managers, Superintendents, and foreman when it comes to job site safety will save you time and money.
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS IN MANAGEMENT
- Hiring/onboarding
- Mentor
- Coaching
- Training
- Supervising
CONTRACTS
- Flow down provisions of the prime contract
- Subcontract clauses and what they mean
- Government contract clauses
- General and Special provisions of the specifications
- Second tier subcontracting
- Purchase orders
- Read and understand schedule before signing the contract
- Scope inclusions and exclusions
THE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE
- Elements of a logical schedule
- How to contribute to a schedule prepared by others
- Coordination with other trades – understanding, cooperating and being sensitive to other trades
- Resource management
- The Schedule and No Damages for Delay clauses of your subcontract
- Management of a project that has no schedule
- Actions to take if a project is behind schedule
- Using a SIPS/4 week look ahead
- Work breakdown structure
- Cost loading for proper cash flow
- Pushing a job
- Dealing with changes
CHANGE ORDERS
- Notice and other requirements of the prime contract and your subcontract
- Preparation of a typical proposal for direct costs
- Allowable overhead and profit, and mark ups on lower tier subcontractors
- Simple time extension cost proposal
- Settlement techniques
- Establishing credibility and avoiding fraud – false information can be fraud.
- Protecting yourself while performing work without a change order
- What is FAIR in back charges and what is abuse
- Following up techniques for settlements
- The change order process from the general contractor’s perspective
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