Construction Project Management and Site Delivery Training Course

Course overview

Construction projects are delivered through a chain of interdependent design, procurement, site, commercial and handover activities. When programme logic is weak, responsibilities are unclear or progress reporting relies on incomplete site information, small constraints become delay claims, cost exposure and disrupted trades. This course equips project personnel to coordinate site delivery with a disciplined management approach that connects the baseline programme, work packages, risk controls, subcontractor commitments and client reporting.

Participants learn how to define project scope and governance, build a work breakdown structure, sequence construction activities, develop and update a critical-path programme, and measure progress against planned production. The course covers look-ahead planning, resource loading, earned value indicators, risk registers, change control, procurement interfaces, site meetings and reporting. Participants also practise managing common construction issues including late information, design changes, access restrictions, subcontractor underperformance and programme recovery.

Teaching is based on a live construction project case, with instructor-led demonstrations, schedule-building workshops, site-delivery scenarios and group decision-making exercises. Participants use planning and reporting templates to create a practical site delivery pack: a work breakdown structure, baseline programme extract, three-week look-ahead plan, risk register, progress dashboard, change log and recovery action plan. The pack can be adapted for use on their current or next project.

The course is suited to professionals moving into construction project management, as well as experienced site and commercial personnel who need a more structured way to control time, interfaces and delivery risk across a project lifecycle.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Develop a construction work breakdown structure that links scope, work packages and accountable owners
• Create a logic-linked baseline programme using critical-path scheduling principles
• Produce three-week look-ahead plans that coordinate trades, materials, access and inspections
• Measure site progress using planned-versus-actual quantities, milestones and earned value indicators
• Maintain a construction risk register with owners, response actions, triggers and review dates
• Apply change-control procedures to assess programme, cost and contractual implications of variations
• Run structured site coordination meetings using action trackers, constraint logs and escalation routes
• Prepare a programme recovery plan that tests acceleration, resequencing and resource options

Benefits of attending

Target competencies

Who should attend

• Assistant Project Managers — who need practical methods to coordinate packages, programmes and site actions
• Construction Project Managers — who must control delivery performance across contractors, consultants and clients
• Site Managers — who need to convert the master programme into reliable short-term production plans
• Project Engineers — who manage technical interfaces, inspections, information release and site constraints
• Quantity Surveyors — who need to understand how change, progress and delay affect commercial exposure
• Planning Engineers — who want stronger site-based controls for updating programmes and recovering slippage

Requirements and prerequisites

This is a foundation-to-intermediate course. Participants should understand basic construction project terminology such as drawings, specifications, subcontractors, milestones, variations and practical completion, and should have some exposure to a construction site, project office or contractor environment. Familiarity with spreadsheet use and simple bar-chart programmes is useful because participants will work with planning and reporting templates. A laptop with Excel and, where available, Microsoft Project or Primavera P6 access is helpful. Formal project management qualifications, advanced scheduling expertise, cost-estimating knowledge and prior use of Procore are not required. Complete beginners should expect an intensive introduction to construction delivery controls.

Training methodology

The five days combine instructor-led construction delivery briefings with guided work on a realistic building-project case. Participants build and interrogate programme extracts, convert site information into look-ahead plans, assess delay scenarios, and use risk, change and action-control templates. Small groups take the roles of contractor, client and subcontractor during coordination and recovery workshops, requiring them to defend priorities and proposed actions. Each day closes with an applied output, and the final session turns the case materials into an implementation plan for the participant’s own project environment.

Course outline

Day 1: Construction project controls and delivery setup

• Construction project lifecycle from mobilisation to practical completion
• Scope definition through employer requirements, drawings and work packages
• Work breakdown structures for trade, zone and deliverable control
• Responsibility assignment matrices and package ownership
• Project governance, delegated authority and decision routes
• Baseline documents, assumptions registers and information-release schedules
• Interface mapping between client, designer, contractor and subcontractors

Workshop: Participants develop a work breakdown structure, responsibility matrix and interface map for the course construction case.

Day 2: Planning, sequencing and programme development

• Activity definition, durations and construction sequencing logic
• Predecessors, successors, leads, lags and finish constraints
• Critical-path method and float interpretation
• Milestones for procurement, inspections, testing and handover
• Resource loading and trade-balancing principles
• Programme baselines, update cycles and version control
• Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project schedule views for construction teams

Workshop: Participants create a logic-linked programme extract, identify the critical path and test the effect of a delayed procurement activity.

Day 3: Short-term site delivery and progress control

• Rolling-wave planning and three-week look-ahead schedules
• Constraint analysis for drawings, materials, labour, access and permits
• Daily production records and quantity-based progress measurement
• Planned-versus-actual tracking and milestone trend reporting
• Earned value indicators for schedule and cost performance
• Site coordination meetings, action logs and commitment tracking
• Visual progress dashboards and reporting for client review

Workshop: Participants turn a master programme into a three-week look-ahead plan and produce a progress dashboard from site reporting data.

Day 4: Risk, change and commercial delivery interfaces

• Construction risk identification using risk breakdown structures
• Risk scoring, response planning, triggers and contingency actions
• Early warning and notification practices under NEC4 ECC
• Variation assessment and change-control workflow
• Delay records, contemporaneous evidence and event logs
• Procurement lead times, subcontractor performance and supply-chain risk
• Issue escalation and decision records for disputed site conditions

Workshop: Participants assess a late-design-information scenario, update the risk register and prepare a change-control recommendation with required evidence.

Day 5: Recovery, handover and management application

• Root-cause analysis of programme slippage
• Recovery options: resequencing, acceleration, mitigation and reallocation
• Time-impact assessment and recovery programme updates
• Quality, testing, commissioning and snagging interfaces
• Practical completion, handover documentation and closeout planning
• Procore workflows for observations, documents and field coordination
• Project delivery dashboards and 90-day control improvement plans

Workshop: Participants present a recovery and handover plan for the case project and complete a 90-day application plan for their own site or project.

Tools & standards covered

Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Procore, NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract

A typical training day

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in the East Africa Time zone, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

How you can take this course

Certification

Participants who complete the full five days receive the Skillset Development Certificate of Completion, stating the course title, course code, dates and delivery format — suitable for professional-development records and employer reimbursement.

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