Instructor: Phil Perry

Contractor success depends heavily on the field production of tradespeople. Lead towards efficiency, and start seeing improvements to your bottom line. This seminar will define Field Productivity, discuss the effects of low Field Productivity, and outline approaches to increasing Field Productivity.

This workshop covers:

• Introduction to Field Productivity
• The Contractor’s Role in improving Productivity
• The Supervisor’s Role in Improving Field Productivity
• Labour Productivity
• Equipment Productivity
• Factors that Impact Productivity
• Quantifying Lost Productivity

Who should attend?

Construction Supervisors, Project Managers and Project Coordinators.

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

Time Management Seminar – Do you run your job, or does your job run you?   Does it ever seem like there is just more to do than you can get done?  In today’s world, most of us are asked to get more done in less time.   This program will help you develop the basic personal and organizational skills to enhance your productivity.  More than just time management, this course demonstrates the need to clearly understand leadership priorities and the ways to implement them, offering insights to anyone interested in personal and organizational productivity.

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

Want to take your business to the next level? Concentrating on proven cost recovery and pricing systems, this seminar offers the solutions contractors need to avoid bankruptcy.  Owners, bookkeepers, office managers, estimators, department heads, and anyone else responsible for a company’s bottom line will learn how to accurately calculate overhead and operating expenses into their day-to-day pricing and bidding structure.

Instructor: Dr. Perry Daneshgari

In this presentation we will discuss how we can apply the research results and negotiate with the owners and general contractors to understand the value transfer by the subcontractors to the final project delivery. The actual cost difference be- tween various models of procurement will be presented and their advantages and disadvantages will be discussed. The research proves that by subcontractors procuring the material the projects can be delivered with lower cost by as much as 19% or higher.

Instructor: Jim Bain

Learn the fundamentals of quality management and the simplified approach to quality: say what you do and do what you say; develop a quality policy, provide a vision and demonstrate commitment; establish the responsibility for providing quality work and keep everyone informed; define and measure; clearly understand customer requirements, make sure the requirements can be met, keep the customer informed and track customer satisfaction; examine operations and report results to management; determine the root cause of problems, fix the causes and verify the corrections are permanent.  Learn how to practice, practice, practice, continuous improvement.

Instructor: Jim Bain

Every expert in construction productivity agrees, we have A LOT of room for improvement. But how? After an introduction to the concept of continuous productivity improvement, we will examine tools and techniques to deliver real results on your job sites. Learn how to recover 24 minutes each day and double your bottom line profit. Sections on equipment management, planning and scheduling, managing sub-contractors, and the use of measurements and technology are certain to teach you and your staff how to save valuable time and money.

Instructor: Jim Bain

This course is valuable at all levels of a construction firm. All members of the construction team should be involved in the planning process. Your jobs can be significantly more profitable with a little attention to pre-planning them. Topics include: preparing the project plan, communicating the plan, Short Interval Planning, planning for productivity, and planning for safety. The course features planning techniques utilized by Bowen Engineering Corp. in a video produced by AGC of America.

Instructor: Blake Wentz

Great project management, by both the foreman and project manager, is primarily responsible for creating excellent productivity on every project. Due to the endless number of variables, which negatively effect worker efficiency, excellent productivity is the project team’s greatest challenge. Productivity also has the greatest positive or negative impact on project and company profitability. Excellent productivity requires proactive, diligent, and detailed planning by the project manager and foreman at each step of the project. In this session, the instructor will provide proven methods and practices for creating, controlling, and improving project productivity on all types of projects. The following topics (and others) will be presented and discussed in this class: material handling practices that guarantee improved jobsite productivity; understanding “average” productivity and the “typical” construction site work day; identifying, managing, and controlling recoverable lost time; understanding the differences between management-caused lost time and worker- caused lost time; understanding the differences and the important connection between punctuality and productivity; optimum crew size and its effect on productivity; the relationship between planning, productivity, and profitability; planning activities that have huge impacts on productivity; identifying and controlling the internal and external factors that affect productivity; fabrication, preassembly, tagging, bagging, and its effect on productivity.

Instructor: Tom Williams

Many times we see presentations about great planning tools that we know can result in significant time and money savings, but do not physically experience the tools. Using a recent project, the attendees will learn how to use each of the planning tools from estimating to job completion.

Instructor: Dr. Awad Hanna

To successfully manage a project; Mechanical contractors need to know when and where the job man-hours are deviating. Earned Value Analysis (EVA) is one of the most powerful tools in the mechanical contractor’s toolkit. This seminar presents the fundamentals of EVA and how it can be used to develop manpower loading charts, how to track and measure percent complete, how to predict the job outcomes when the job is just 20% complete and how to compare your performance to industry benchmarks. The seminar will also present a comprehensive job tracking system based on tracking project man-hours. A simplified and yet accurate job tracking system for small and medium size mechanical contractors will be also shown in this seminar.