Administration and Management of Construction Projects
Course Overview
The construction industry, as the second largest sector of the Cyprus Economy, is one of the main sectors that contribute a large part to the country’s gross domestic product.
Excellent knowledge about project management is key to the well-being of businesses in the construction sector and effectively contributes to improving the competitiveness of organizations. Structured project management through project management frameworks and standards offers the best practices and necessary tools to organize, plan and then control all project constraints, as established through years of experience and research.
Seminar Content
- Organization and structure of Contracting companies
- Organization and management of construction sites
- Contracts: contracting authority & contractor, tender procedures, evaluation criteria, partnerships & joint ventures, subcontracts
- Contracts: amendment/revision of contracts, debriefing, closing of contract
- Project Evaluation and Financing: Basic Economic Concepts and Elements of Micro-Economic Theory, Cost-Benefit Analysis Economic indicators. Present and Future Values, Evaluation during and after the implementation of the project
- Strategic planning portfolio analysis
- Change management and facilitating their acceptance/integration into the organization, Project vs Operations
- Projects vs Operations, Project life cycle, setting objectives (objective statement), writing and utilizing the required documents
- Implementation phases: Inputs/outputs of each implementation phase
- Planning & Project Management: task analysis, sequence of actions, time milestones
- Project team formation, assignments and recognition of responsibilities
- Scheduling, Critical Path Method (CPM), PERT, GANTT
- Costing of individual actions and overall project budget
- Risk prediction and countermeasures,
- Quality management, change management and the expectations of different stakeholders
- Human Resource Management: Staffing, determining requirements, attracting candidates, Selecting candidates, Evaluation methods
- Theories of motivation and motivation, Relationship management, Leadership, Conflict, Employee counseling
- Agile methodology in Project Management, Agile manifesto, Agile values, Agile team & roles
- Agile schedule, Changes, Risks
- Monitoring & control of the project, Measurements - Reports
- Discrepancies, use of “Employed Value”
- Closing Projects/Lessons Learned: recording the newly acquired knowledge, capitalizing it in the company's know-how, enriching competitive advantage
- The certification process by PMI, Mock tests
Who Should Attend
The program is aimed at people who manage construction projects either as project managers or in any other capacity such as Directors/Executives of companies in the wider construction sector, site managers, civil engineers, architects and others involved in the supervision and management of construction and engineering contracts.
Days: To be announced
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Duration: 21 hours
Language: Greek
Cost: €TBA
(Initial cost: *€TBA, HRDA Subsidy: €TBA)
*Special discount for non-subsidy eligible candidates
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