Construction Planning and Control

Master scheduling, budgeting, and performance analysis for effective construction project control.

What you'll learn
- Integrate the schedule and budget
- Calculate and analyze progress
- Analyze and report variances in schedule and cost
- Recognize trends and forecasting performance
- Perform acceleration and schedule compression

Requirements
- No specific prerequisite is required.

Description
The key to successful construction project control is the fusing of cost to schedule, enabling the management of one to help manage the other. This requires that a task’s cost and 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 project control analyst’s domain.

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.

This online course includes13 hours of contentinmore than 70 instructional videosalong with13 case studiesto engage your critical thinking for each section.

Table of Contents:

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 & Resource Management

Acceleration and Schedule Compression

Risk Management

Course Learning Outcomes:

Integrate the schedule and budget

Calculate and analyze progress

Analyze and report variances in schedule and cost

Recognize trends and forecasting performance

Perform acceleration and schedule compression

Course Textbook:

Project Control: Integrating Cost and Schedule in Construction (2023); Author: Wayne J. Del Pico; Publisher:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 9781394150120

Who this course is for:
- Civil Engineers
- Construction Managers
- Construction Science Students
- Construction Engineering Students
- Construction Management Students
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