b'NATIONAL SEMINAR PROGRAM CATALOGUEPRODUCTIVITYProductivity Improvement for Mechanical Projects Great project management, by both the foreman and project manager, is primarily HALF DAY AND ONE DAY SEMINARS responsible for creating excellent productivity on every project. Due to the endless number of variables which negatively affect worker efficiency, excellent productivity Jobsite Productivity: How to Protect ItHow to Improve Itis the project teams greatest challenge. Productivity also has the greatest positive This class will examine the typical construction day, with the intent of betteror negative impact on project and company profitability. Excellent productivity understanding the factors that affect productive work. Methodologies for improvingrequires proactive, diligent, and detailed planning by the project manager and jobsite performance on the regular job will be examined. Then, drawing on recentforeman at each step of the project. In this session, the instructor will provide industry research, various labour productivity factors will be reviewed to developproven methods and practices for creating, controlling, and improving project methods for minimizing negative factors and to capture data to prove damages, productivity on all types of projects. The following topics (and others) will be if necessary. (One Day)presented and discussed in this class: material handling practices that guarantee Instructor: Tom Williamsimproved jobsite productivity; understanding average productivity and the Attendees: Principals, Senior Management, Middle Management,typical construction site work day; identifying, managing, and controlling Project Managers, Supervisors, Foremen recoverable lost time; understanding the differences between management-caused lost time and worker-caused lost time; understanding the differences and the Managing Field Productivity to Improve the Bottom Lineimportant connection between punctuality and productivity; optimum crew size This seminar discusses the causes of poor labour productivity, measuringand its effect on productivity; the relationship between planning, productivity,productivity for controlling items of work, performance factors, forecastingand profitability; planning activities that have huge impacts on productivity;project outcomes, productivity measurement, daily productivity measurements,identifying and controlling the internal and external factors that affectperformance evaluation reports, factors affecting labour productivity, what to do toproductivity; fabrication, preassembly, tagging, bagging, and its effectreduce the impact of schedule compression and acceleration, manpower loadingon productivity. (Half Day) and s-curve, preplanning, site logistics, site layout, deliveries, storage, and Instructor: Blake Wentz material handling. (One Day)Attendees: Operation Managers, Principals, Project Managers, Instructor: Dr. Awad HannaSuperintendents, ForemenAttendees: Principals, Senior Management, Middle Management, Project Managers, Supervisors, Foremen Unlock Your ProfitsKeys to Pre-planning NEWThis course is valuable at all levels of a construction firm. All members of the Project Tracking to Improve Labour Productivity: construction team should be involved in the planning process. Your jobs can be An Earned Value Approachsignificantly more profitable with a little attention to pre-planning them. Topics To successfully manage a project, mechanical contractors need to know wheninclude: preparing the project plan, communicating the plan, Short Interval and where the job man-hours are deviating. Earned Value Analysis (EVA) is onePlanning, planning for productivity, and planning for safety. The course features of the most powerful tools in the mechanical contractors toolkit. This seminarplanning techniques utilized by Bowen Engineering Corp. in a video produced by presents the fundamentals of EVA and how it can be used to develop manpowerAGC of America. (Six Hours) loading charts, how to track and measure per cent complete, how to predict the jobInstructor: Jim Bain outcomes when the job is just 20% complete and how to compare your performanceAttendees: Project Managers, Supervisors, Foremento industry benchmarks. The seminar will also present a comprehensive job tracking system based on tracking project man-hours. A simplified and yet accurateDouble Your Bottom Line job tracking system for small and medium size mechanical contractors will also beImproving Construction Productivity NEWshown in this seminar. (One Day)Every expert in construction productivity agrees: we have A LOT of room for Instructor: Dr. Awad Hannaimprovement. But how? After an introduction to the concept of continuous Attendees: Principals, Senior Management, Middle Management,productivity improvement, we will examine tools and techniques to deliver real Project Managers, Supervisors, Foremen results on your jobsites. Learn how to recover 24 minutes each day and double your bottom line profit. Sections on equipment management, planning andPlanning for Productivity: A Case Studyscheduling, managing sub-contractors, and the use of measurements and Many times we see presentations about great planning tools that we know can resulttechnology are certain to teach you and your staff how to save valuable timein significant time and money savings, but do not physically experience the tools.and money. (Six Hours) Using a recent project, the attendees will learn how to use each of the planningInstructor: Jim Bain tools from estimating to job completion. (One Day)Attendees: Principals, Senior Management, Middle Management, Instructor: Tom WilliamsProject Managers, Supervisors, Foremen, Accounting, Estimators, Attendees: Principals, Senior Management, Middle Management,Sales, MarketingProject Managers, Estimating, Supervisors, ForemenMeasure Twice, Cut Once: Quality Control in Construction NEWLearn the fundamentals of quality management and the simplified approach to quality: say what you do and do what you say; develop a quality policy, provide a vision and demonstrate commitment; establish the responsibility for providing quality work and keep everyone informed; define and measure; clearly understand Customer requirements, make sure the requirements can be met, keep the Customer informed and track Customer satisfaction; examine operations and report results to management; determine the root cause of problems, fix the causes and verify the corrections are permanent. Learn how to practice, practice, practice, continuous improvement. (Four Hours) Instructor: Jim Bain Attendees: Principals, Senior Management, Middle Management, Project Managers, Supervisors, Foremen, Accounting, Estimators, Sales, Marketing58 www.mcac.ca'