Construction Project Control

The key to successful construction project control is the fusing of cost to schedule, enabling the management of one to help the management of the other. This requires that a task’s cost and its duration have a direct relationship, not an arbitrary assignment by the scheduler. Ensuring that the relationship is correct and setting the appropriate baseline for tracking is the domain of the project control analyst.

This course fills a void in the area of project control as applied in the construction industry today. It demonstrates how productivity models for an individual project are created, monitored, and controlled and how corrective actions are implemented as deviations from the baseline occur.

Course Objectives:

By completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Integrate the schedule and budget

2. Calculate and analyze project progress

3. Analyze and report variances in schedule and cost

4. Recognize trends and forecasting performance

5. Perform acceleration and schedule compression

Course Curriculum:

• Introduction and the Basics

• Introduction to Project Control

• Pre-Construction Planning

• The Schedule

• The Budget

• Integrating the Schedule and the Budget

• Calculating and Analyzing Progress

• Analyzing and Reporting Variances in Schedule and Cost

• Recognizing Trends and Forecasting Performance

• Productivity

• Acceleration and Schedule Compression

• Resource Management

• Risk Management

Textbook:

This course is based on the following textbook:

Project Control: Integrating Cost and Schedule in Construction (2013); Authors: Wayne J. Del Pico; Publisher:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 9781118421062