25 cpd package-22-1 Microsoft Project Management Software Application in Construction+ Construction Cost Control
 (11 hours Microsoft Project Management Software Application in Construction+ 14 hours Construction Cost Control)  totaling 25 hours online courses training, 25 CPD credits

​This 11 hours online course will go through the following topics and provide insights to the BC residential builders and professionals:

- Learn about making, updating, and revising project calendars to make construction project schedules more professionally

- Learn about adding resources and costs, as well as sort, filter, and highlight to better manage construction projects

- Make a professional timeline, customize the time scale and learn work, units, duration, cost and effort-driven schedule to succeed in construction project

- Learn the basics identify, level resources over allocations, and set a baseline construction project schedule

- Learn to customize, format, and create a resource pool construction project

- Learn to track multiple updates, revisions, change orders and create resources by length, area, and volume in a residential construction project

- Learn to create cash flow reports and to level resources over allocations  in a residential construction project

-Learn the task types, batch and queue size, review, and analyze in a construction project schedule

- Learn to customize the text  and create a checklist before base-lining your schedule on a construction project

- Learn to link project documents, drawings, and photos to file  in a residential construction project

- Learn to create a work breakdown structure for construction projects

By the end of this in-depth course, learners will have a better understanding of the topics through our comprehensive introductions and breakdown of the topics into easily digestible content, and overall, will gain an increased amount of applicable knowledge that they are able to integrate into their work settings.

Construction Cost Control - Online - 14 hours (14 CPD)
This 14-hour online course will review the theory and practice of project control of construction projects and will focus on cost and schedule monitoring and control techniques to minimize cost overruns and schedule slippages while bringing together many of the topics, tools, techniques, and strategies of other related disciplines in the construction ecosystem. We will explore from a project management perspective the key processes of the cost control cycle, including budget baselines, schedule baselines, progress measurement, variance calculations, earned value, corrective action, and LEAN methodology to add value and reduce waste.

We will go through the following topics and provide insights to the BC residential builders and professionals:

- Introduction to construction cost control

- Describe the basic definition and qualities of cost control in construction, also explain the documentation of controlling cost

- Understand the use and application of cost coding in project management, as well as how cost and schedule baseline are established for cost control in construction

- Understand the importance of progress measurement for cost monitoring and control Identify and determine the different methods of measurement for project progress

- Review contract documents, as well as prepare credible and consistent documentation regarding change orders

- Explain the importance of cash flow in the construction industry and the consequences of negative cash flow

- Explain Earned Value Analysis and apply it to a building case

By the end of the in-depth course, learners will have a better understanding of the subject topic and will gain more applicable knowledge of cost control