Instructor: Phil Perry

80% of the people managing Construction Contracts do not read, do not understand or are not following the Construction Contract in place between the two organizations! This creates problems for both the Owner and the Contractor as well as the other participants involved with the project (Consultant, Subcontractors, Sub-Subcontractors and Suppliers).

The Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC) and the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) publishes standard contracts and guides for the Construction Industry.

In this workshop the bidding process will be reviewed (Expression of Interest (EOI), Request for Qualifications (RFQ), Request for Proposals (RFP), Contract A, Contract B), the difference between a Letter of Intent and Letter of Award (one of which one is simply an agreement to agree) and the terms and conditions of the CCDC-2 Stipulated Price Construction Contract.

Guides covered on the workshop:

• CCDC-00 – Guide to Use of CCDC Master Specification for Division 00 – Procurement and Contracting Requirements
• CCDC-10 – A Guide to Construction Project Delivery Methods
• CCDC-20 – Guide to the use of CCDC-2 Stipulated Price Contract
• CCDC-23 – Guide to the Call and Awarding of Construction Contracts
• CCDC-21 – Guide to Construction Insurance
• CCDC-22 – Guide to Construction Surety Bonds
• CCDC-24 – Guide to Model Forms
• CCDC-29 – Guide to Prequalification
• CCDC-40 – Rules for Mediation and Arbitration of Construction Industry Disputes
• CCA 53 – A Trade Contractors Guide and Checklist to Construction Contracts

 Who should attend?

Anyone whose work is described in construction contracts: Owners, Consultants, Project Managers, Construction Managers, Superintendents and Estimators of all levels will benefit from the workshop.

Instructor: Phil Perry

When it comes to cost and schedule on your construction projects, do you know where you’re at and where you’re going?

Realizing that you’re aimed at an iceberg when you’re 100 meters away isn’t helpful. It’s so much better if you notice the iceberg when you’re 10 kilometers away, so that you can do something about it! This is part of the “construction management” that owners expect from contractors.

Construction project management is a challenge in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Effective project-planning and -control approaches must often be compliant with owners’ contractual requirements. Successful project managers demand that their projects meet the contracted scope of work, and be completed on schedule and within budget. To ensure success, an effective project control system must be designed, developed, and implemented to provide management with timely and accurate information on deviations of cost and time parameters from the target objectives established during the planning cycle of the project.

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project planning and control approach which provides cost and schedule performance measurements. It compares actual accomplishment of scheduled work and associated cost against an integrated schedule and budget plan. Its benefits include visibility into the true progress of the project work against the budget, projections of anticipated project schedule, and cost trends, and the ability to take timely corrective actions for undesired variances. EVM is one of the most powerful and productive concepts used in managing today’s complex projects in private, commercial, and government environments.

 The fundamentals of EVM will be presented in a down-to-earth, basic approach, along with hands-on exercises and examples that will allow participants to apply the concepts.

Participants will:

Obtain basic knowledge in understanding and using an effective performance management system in managing construction projects effectively.

Detect both positive and negative trends in a timely manner.

Forecast the Projected Final Cost (Estimate at Completion) using several techniques.

Confidently and quickly make project decisions concerning scope, cost, and schedule

Learn to avoid the project-management pitfalls by quickly identifying and mitigating risks

Who Should Attend:

This course is for owner, designer, contractor, and subcontractor personnel who are involved with cost and schedule management.

Instructor: Phil Perry

This is an interactive half-day seminar that will cover the fundamentals of interpreting construction specifications. The seminar will deal with the basics of reading and interpreting both the general and technical specifications.

Course Topics

• Recognize the role of the Project Manual in relationship to the bidding documents, construction contract documents, general requirements and the technical specifications
• Recognize the role of MasterFormat in Construction Specifications
• Recognize the difference between a Prescriptive Specification and a Performance Specifications

Who should attend?

Anyone who is new to using Construction Specifications

Instructor: Phil Perry

This is an interactive half-day seminar that will cover the fundamentals of interpreting construction drawings. The seminar will deal with the basics of interpreting information from plans, elevations, sections, details and notes contained in typical drawings.

Course Topics

List the components of a typical construction drawing set

Identify typical drawing types, symbols, notes and scales

Recognize the common types of drawing sets and explain their differences

Extrapolate specific information from a drawing set and cross-reference it to the construction

Instructor: Phil Perry

“I signed up for this course to learn about my rights and responsibilities under standard contracts. I didn’t expect to learn so much about the risks and rewards. Amazing course!”

The Canadian Construction Documents Committee publishes standard contracts for the construction industry. This two-day course reviews the various CCDC contracts, emphasizing which contracts to use in which situations, and the roles & responsibilities of Owners, Designers, and Constructors.

• CCDC-2 Stipulated Price
• CCDC-2 (MA) Stipulated Price – Master Agreement (for owners with a program of projects)
• CCDC-3 Cost Plus
• CCDC-4 Unit Price
• CCDC-5A  Construction Management for Services
• CCDC-5B  Construction Management for Services & Construction
• CCDC-14 Design-Build Stipulated Price
• CCDC-15 Design Services Contract btw. Design-Builder & Consultant
• CCDC-17 Stipulated price between Owner and Trade Contractor for CM Projects
• CCDC-18 Civil Works
• CCDC-30 Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)
• Standard Design Contracts

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

Communication Seminar – Get even the most difficult person to act civilized.   This program will help you get even the most difficult person eating out of your hands. You will walk away from this program with some tricks and tactics which you will put to immediate use, and learn how to keep the tempers from flaring.