Use the Power of Scheduling Tools and Best Practices to your Advantage!

This unique program is designed to help you create better schedules and understand how schedules can help you plan and manage projects. An important educational opportunity designed for schedulers . . . project managers . . . project engineers . . . architects . . . construction managers . . . office engineers and others involved in the day-to-day operations of a construction or design/build project.

Valuable Training Tool for All Members of your Project Team

The construction schedule, properly used, is one of your best communication and documentation tools, allowing everyone to coordinate their activities toward common short and long term goals. Studies have shown that projects that proactively use and update schedules have a greater record of on-budet and on-time completion.

CD Series Details:

Session 1: Why use a Schedule, How to Get Started, and When will the Benefits Begin?

This session will begin with the very basics of the scheduling practice -- introducing you to the current concepts most relevant to today’s practice of the art. If you’re deciding whether to propose on a prospective job . . . preparing a bid proposal or . . . have recently been awarded a mega project, planning is essential and developing a schedule is of key importance.

Where do you begin? This session will help you pick out the software you need and develop the initial plan that will serve as the framework for the detailed schedule to follow. Topics Include:

• The purpose of the schedule: Bidding, proposal development, conceptual planning, contract execution, time management and documentation.
• Tool selection: Which software might you use, what hardware do you need, who will develop and maintain the schedule?
• Development of the initial schedule: Identify major phases and sub-phases, involve the major trade contractors, determine long-lead items, target potential risks.
• The initial 90-day schedule: Mobilization and early construction.

Your Instructors:
Chris Bryant and Kyle Logan, click here for bios

In Session 1 you learned how to make a basic plan. How do you develop it into something that can produce benefits on a massive scale? The answer is in the details.

Session 2 will cover best practices and recommendations for creating a schedule for the first three months of the project . . . how to create a detailed schedule for the whole project by defining activities . . . developing logic ties and organizing the schedule using code fields and . . . work breakdown structures. Topics Include:

• Detail development: Activity identification and level of detail.
• Restraints: Contract, site, materials, resources, activity logic relationships
  
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Definition, pros and cons, how to use a WBS.

Your Instructors:
Paul Brough and Ralph Waagner, click here for bios

The prior sessions covered how to plan your work based on physical restraint. Session 3 will cover resource considerations in depth.
You can create a schedule without having it resource loaded, but you would be missing out on some of the most useful aspects of computerized scheduling. Whether you are concerned about limited resources, leveling out your resources to minimize “peaks and valleys” or tracking productivity, this session is for you. Topics Include:

• Reasons to load resources, types of resources
• Differences between P3 managing resources in a project and in P6, managing resources across the enterprise.
• Resource leveling
• Measuring productivity
• Tracking change order, delay, and acceleration costs.

Your Instructors:
William Hornbake and Lynn Wegner, click here for bios

The development, submittal and approval of a detailed CPM Baseline Schedule is a major priority at the start of every project. The Baseline should represent the As-Bid Plan containing sufficient activity detail and relationships reflecting the required work flow for project completion. The Baseline should have the input and concurrence (sign-off) of the entire project team, creating a true starting point for progress measurement. Once the Baseline is finalized the schedule update requirements begin. This session will provide a step-by-step update procedure answering those ever-present questions:

• Why do we have to update the schedule?
  
• Who should be involved?
  
• How often should we update?
  
• How do we get the data?
  
• How do we update a cost and resource loaded schedule?
  
• After we update what next?
  
• How do we review the update?
  
• How do we address extra work activity?
  
• How do we address impacts and delays?
  
• Is this an update or revision?
  
• What about recovery schedule?

Your Instructors:
Mark Doran and George Bonnar, click here for bios

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Who will benefit from these programs?

All of these programs serve the needs of those involved in the planning and execution of projects. It will be of particular interest to program and project managers, contractors, subcontractors, vendors and suppliers, owners, consultants, engineers and architects and other design professionals, and the attorneys that represent these parties.

Meet Your Presenters:

Christopher Bryant has more than 31 years experience in the construction industry. As a construction consultant with Warner Building Construction, his expertise includes the fields of cost control, estimating, contract negotiations, claim preparation, owners representative and more. Field assignments with major domestic and international construction firms included positions as cost engineer, scheduler, project controls manager and project manager.
In the area of dispute consulting services, Mr. Bryant’s experience extends to computerized delay and schedule analysis, time impact analysis, damage and impact cost calculations, project planning and management. As a disputes consultant, Mr. Bryant brings to the table his unique range of experience of cost engineer to executive consultant to analyze and/or prepare claims. In this capacity, he has participated in the preparation and settlement of more than 30 major disputes.

Kyle Logan has more than seven years of construction, interior contracting and facilities planning and management experience. As the Student Manager of Facilities Planning, he worked in the department responsible for new construction, renovations, facilities improvement and development for a 47 building university campus.
Mr. Logan’s current responsibilities at Warner Construction Consultants involve the preparation, analysis, review and updating of Critical Path (CPM) based construction schedules. That work involves the development of duration estimates, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and cost/resource loaded CPM network for Baseline Project Schedules. He is proficient in the use of Primavera P3, Microsoft Project and Suretrak scheduling software. He has frequently been retained to oversee or prepare the subsequent submission of updates and analyzes progress and resource utilization measured against the baseline.

Paul Brough, vice president with Warner Construction Consulting, has experience in multiple phases of project management including estimating, bidding, scheduling, cost control and field supervision of commercial, industrial and institutional construction projects. He has prepared and analyzed delay claims, and served as an expert witness on delays in various dispute resolutions forums.
Mr. Brough’s current responsibilities involve preparation, analysis and review of Critical Patch (CPM) based construction schedules. That work typically involves the development of duration estimates, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and cost/resource loaded CPM networks for Baseline Project Schedules. He has frequently been retained to oversee the subsequent preparation of updates, and analyzes progress and resource utilization measured against the Baseline. He is proficient in the preparation of CAD based graphics illustrating complex work sequencing and subnetworks for proposed changes (fragnets).

Ralph Waagner has more than 30 years of construction management and project control experience. Mr. Waagner has extensive experience working for both the field and home office of Warner Construction Consultants with the management and scheduling of many projects. Mr. Waagner is thoroughly familiar with all aspects of schedule development, monitoring and analysis.

Mark Doran graduated from the school of Building Construction and Contracting Technology at Purdue in 1985. Mark joined Turner Construction Company in Washington, DC and began his on-the-job training with CPM scheduling. He spent eight years at Turner holding field and field office positions that provided skill sets in CPM scheduling, project management, project supervision and effective communication to various levels of people from the field worker to engineers to owners. Mark left Turner in the spring of 1993 to join The Barrington Consulting Group, a national dispute resolution consulting firm, and in 2000, Mark formed Contract Solutions LLC, a schedule consulting company. At Contract Solutions, Mark has provided expert consulting services regarding CPM scheduling including the drafting of schedule specifications for the United States General Services Administration, United States Bureau of Prisons, and the Tennessee Department of Corrections.

George Bonnar has had a passion for project planning and controls since the days of hand drawn arrow diagrams and key punched computer data cards. His esteemed career began with his first job after high school, in 1974, with Swindell Dressler, at that time a major international EPC Contractor specializing in the metals and industrial markets. Working as a draftsman in the scheduling department he was responsible for creating and updating CPM logic diagrams as well as the “take-off” of activities for input to the main frame IBM computer. George graduatedPenn State with a Bachelors Degree in Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology. Upon graduation, George rekindled his career at Swindell Dressler which had now evolved to Swindell Rust and later to Rust International. As a Project Planner, experience was gained in the metals industry on new project installations, working with US, Bethlehem, and Inland Steel companies.

William Hornbake is a professional scheduler with 24 years experience in all phases of construction. His consulting services offer state-of-the-art scheduling techniques to improve the overall performance of the project team. Mr. Hornbake is proficient in P5/P6, P3 and Suretrak, having utilized Primavera projects for more than 20 years. With a keen understanding of numerous construction techniques, Mr. Hornbake assists the team to develop, monitor and analyze the construction schedule to ensure the project finishes on time. In addition, he provides assistance with strategic planning in all phases of construction to ensure logical sequencing and a successful, on-time project. Mr. Hornbake holds a B.A. in Architectural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.

Lynn Wegner, an executive consultant with Warner Construction Consultants, is a seasoned construction professional with more than 35 years experience within the construction industry with 25 of those years specializing in CPM scheduling. Lynn’s experience includes the development of baseline schedules and providing monthly schedule updates throughout the United States on construction projects valued in excess of $7 billion. Lynn also has extensive experience in baseline schedule development and updates on large commercial mixed use office, hotel and retail centers. Lynn’s experience in both the public and private sector includes commercial and institutional office and medical centers, transit and subway tunnels, water and wastewater treatment plants, postal, educational and correctional facilities, pharmaceutical andlarge convention center complexes. Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Engineering from Iowa State University.

Meet Your Moderator:

J. Kimon Yiasemides is a graduate of both the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Florida School of Building Construction. Mr. Yiasemides serves as Executive Consultant for Warner Construction Consultants, providing expertise in construction management, CPM scheduling and dispute resolution services for the construction industry.
Mr. Yiasemides has more than 12 years of work experience in the construction industry including six years of general contracting and construction management with Centex Construction Group where he performed construction management on several award-winning projects. He has been been directly involved in the management of both public and private sector work, including commercial, educational, residential and
multi-story construction projects.