Capital Project
Management
and Construction
Project Management is Tough:
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Most project managers are just thrust into the roles.
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College engineering programs don’t cover practical
construction.
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Project management classes are offered at very few
colleges.
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Most companies do not have in-house project
management or construction training.
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Until now there has been no single source for learning
what you need to know about project management and
construction.
Now there is...
CP Project Services offers three unique, one-day seminars
that will teach you all you need to know to properly and
efficiently manage capital projects.
Capital Project Selection, Justification, Estimation,
Planning, Execution, and Control
Seminar Objective
To fuse seamlessly project management as taught by the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK (the ANSI standard on project management) and capital project management in the CPI, Pharmaceutical, and Food and Beverage Industries. The PMBOK, though a thorough and powerful document, is general. It must be translated into specific action unique to a given field. This seminar translates the PMBOK into the lingo and documents used by capital project managers in the CPI, Pharmaceutical, and Food and Beverage Industries. It also goes beyond and delves into specifics of selected areas of project management especially helpful to its targeted audience. How can all this be done in one day? Quite simply, it’s all beef. There is no fill here. CP Project Services realizes how busy project managers are and consequently has made every minute count.
Still Not Sure if This Seminar is for You? Take the Test!
• Do your projects frequently have cost overruns?
• Do you put together a written project plan in accordance with the PMBOK (ANSI standard on project management) for every project?
• Can you name nine areas that must be covered in every project plan? • Do you write a lot of AFE’s that don’t get approved?
• Do you know how to accurately predict project completion date and cost when only 15% of the budget has been spent?
• Do you know how to track your project with the simple but powerful tools of earned value? • Do your “issued for construction” drawings frequently contain many errors?
• What is the best number of contractors to bid for a job? • Can a 30% variance in contractor quotes be legitimate?
• Can you look at contractor work in the field and immediately tell if it’s on schedule?
If you are not satisfied with even one of your answers, this seminar is a must for you! It will save your projects money and time, and make your work life much easier.
Some of What You Will Learn About Project Management
• How to manage your time.
• How to deal with difficult project team members. • How to delegate work.
• How to create a project plan in accordance with the PMBOK. • The basics of contract law
• How to completely scope any project
• How to write tight scopes of work for engineering and construction.
• How to make sure drawings are properly reviewed and fit for bidding with few errors. • How contractors negotiate with you and how you should with them.
• How to analyze contractors quotes.
• How to use earned value to track your project
• How to find out early if you have cost or schedule problems and what to do about them. • How to look at work in the field and tell immediately if it’s on schedule or not.
• How to estimate task time duration, and costs for AFE’s.
• How to either kill a project quickly or justify it properly to get AFE approval.
Take-Homes
Each attendee will be given
• A floppy disc with a project plan that can be used for any project with minor modification • A floppy disc with a preliminary and detailed engineering scope of work that can be used to bid
engineering for any project with minor modification. • A manual that will make note taking unnecessary.
Capital Project Management is Primarily about
Construction not Chemical Engineering
Even after the proper project management tools have been mastered, they cannot be utilized to their fullest without the appropriate knowledge of construction. Unfortunately, most chemical and
mechanical engineers who manage projects have had no training in the construction trades, the construction process, or even in the process control hardware used today. Unless an effort is made to fill in these gaps, the project manager will be supervising work that he doesn’t understand and cannot critique, and will be dealing with people in a rather complicated realm, the construction process, that he doesn’t understand either. And worst of all, this lack of understanding leads to increased costs, expanded schedules, and a compromise in quality. Two seminars address this knowledge need: “What the Capital Project Manager Needs to Know about Soil, Foundations, Concrete, Welding, and Piping”, and “What the Capital Project Manager Needs to Know About Electrical Power and Control Systems.” These two seminars provide the project manager with what he needs to know about construction and control to efficiently manage his projects. Each is a one-day seminar, kept concise to accommodate busy schedules.
“What the Capital Project Manager Needs to Know about
Soil, Foundations, Concrete, Welding, and Piping”
Seminar Objective
The capital project manager doesn’t need to become an architect, but he does need to have a good, general understanding of the various trades, and the construction process. This seminar addresses those concerns and supplies the capital project manager with what he needs to know about soil, foundations, concrete, welding, and piping. The seminar is aimed only at the project manager. This unique approach cuts right to the chase and provides the information that he needs to know to manage his projects efficiently.
Still Not Sure if This Seminar is for You? Take the Test!
Soil• Can soil be sharply classified as sand, gravel, clay, silt, or rock?
• If topsoil is compacted to 2000 psf of bearing capacity, is it possible for layers of soil below to be weaker? • Is the water table an underground lake below which there is more dry soil?
• Does rock settle?
Foundations
• Is placing the bottom of a concrete pad below the frost line the only way to avoid frost heave? • Are piles immune to frost heave?
• Is removing a weight of soil equal to the weight of your new construction a guarantee that the ground below can provide proper support?
• Do all foundations settle?
Concrete
• Is stating type, compressive strength, and slump enough to completely specify concrete? • Is it OK to add water to concrete at the job site for extra workability?
• Does it matter when finishing begins?
• If your concrete samples test OK, does that mean the concrete in the field is fine too?
Welding
• Can you read welding symbols?
• Why is heat treatment sometimes required after welding?
• When welding with a DC machine, does it matter if the electrode is made positive or negative? • Why are root passes in SMAW (stick welding) butt welds commonly made with TIG?
Piping
• When should a stress analysis be performed on a piping design? • Is temperature the primary variable used to select pipe supports? • When should a constant support hanger be used?
• When should a pump be aligned?
Some of What you Will Learn about Soil, Foundations, and Concrete:
• Soil types and strengths • Soil testing methods • Foundation types • Concrete theory • Types of concrete
• Common concrete maladies and how to prevent them • Design of Concrete mixtures
• Transporting, testing, and placing concrete • Finishing
• Hot and cold weather concrete placement
• How to protect your project against unscrupulous construction practices
Some of What You Will Learn about Welding and Piping:
• How to read welding symbols • Overview of welding processes • SMAW (stick), TIG, and MIG • Overview of piping systems • How to select support types
• How to determine if a stress analysis is necessary • Piping and pipe rack design fundamentals • When to align pumps
• When vibration must be considered in design
• How to protect your project against unscrupulous construction practices
Take-Homes
Each attendee will be given
• A manual that will make note taking unnecessary.
“What the Capital Project Manager Needs to Know About
Electrical Power and Control Systems”
Seminar Objective
The capital project manager doesn’t need to become an electrical engineer or a control engineer, but he does need to have a good, general understanding of electrical power and control systems, and the construction process. This seminar addresses those concerns and supplies the capital project manager with what he needs to know about electrical power and control systems. The seminar is aimed only at the project manager. This unique approach cuts right to the chase and provides the information he needs to know to manage his projects efficiently.
Still Not Sure if This Seminar is for You? Take the Test!
Electrical Power Generation• How is electricity produced from coal, gas, water, and nuclear power? • Why is electricity produced in three phases?
• Describe electricity’s path from the generating station to the final user? • What’s the difference between a delta and a wye transformer?
Plant Electrical Power Usage
• Is it possible to artificially reduce transformer power by over sizing circuit breakers? • Can you calculate project power needs from scope documents?
• Can you determine if an existing transformer can carry your load? • Can you read line diagrams?
Your
Presenter
Glen Rosentrater has spent his career
managing capital projects and has authored several papers dealing with project manage-ment. He earned his BS and MS in chemical engineering
from the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, and is a project management pro-fessional (PMP). Rosentrater is a member of AICHE and the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Control System Basics
• What are the six main parts of a computer?
• Define operating system, application software, support software?
• Are there differences between a programmable logic controller and a computer? • How are modems related to data highways?
Process Control
• What is the distinguishing feature of a DCS? • Can a single PLC control several processes?
• How do Foundation Fieldbus and HART differ from each other? • Can a single bus have instruments from different processes on it?
• Can a single PLC accommodate dumb transmitters as well as HART and Foundation Fieldbus? • Can PLC’s from different manufacturers be linked with each other as well as with personal
computers?
Learn the answers to these questions and much, much more!
Some of What You Will Learn about Electrical Power and Control Systems:
Electric Power• Power generation and transmission • Apparent power, real power, power factor • Single phase and three phase power calculations • Calculating process kva needs
• Sizing conductors, conduit, and circuit breakers for motors, panelboards, and transformers • Line diagrams
• How to protect your project against unscrupulous construction practices
Process Control
• Computer basics • Main frames and PCs • Industrial computers • PLC program types
• Distributed Control systems • Standards and protocols • Hybrid control systems • Smart transmitters • HART
• Foundation Fieldbus
Take-Homes
Each attendee will be given
• A manual that will make note taking unnecessary.
CP Project Services, inc., 4034 Wainwright, Oak Lawn, IL. 60453-5721, tel (708) 425-2279, fax (708) 425-8615, [email protected]
Capital Project Management and Construction
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