This seminar provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage the design process and prepare construction documents. Specific time and cost management skills, as well as quality control/assurance techniques, will be presented to enable design engineers, engineering consultants, and civil service professionals to produce cost effective construction documents for building and civil infrastructure projects.

Topics covered include:

• Developing request for proposals and defining project work scopes,
• Developing design schedules,
• Conducting design meetings and negotiations,
• Managing changes and extra work,
• Time and budget management, and
• Quality control/assurance techniques

You will receive Case Studies In Project Management: Springfield Interchange Improvement Project Instructors Set, edited by Dr. Frank T. Anbari. You will also receive ASCE Publication Constructability - Concepts and Practice - Edited by John A. Gambatee, James B . Pocock, Phillip S. Dunston, (2007).

• Be able to analyze and comprehend the integration and interrelatedness of cost, time, quality and resources for managing the design process
• Increase your ability to recognize and identify the documentation and record keeping requirements during design and the associated legal implications
• Be familiar with value engineering and its application throughout the design process
• Limit the number of errors and omissions and protect professional liability, insurance costs, and premiums
• Understand how to apply engineering standards and consider realistic issues including engineering economics, constructability, environmental requirements, sustainability, and safety
• Be able to analyze and comprehend quality control/assurance issues with regard to the design process
• Understand how to recognize and avoid costly construction changes through quality control/assurance during the design phase of a project

• Manage the design process and avoid problems that occur during construction
• Prepare cost effective construction documents
• Maintain design schedules and budgets, and meet project deadlines
• Better convey design scope to clients, public agency officials, design consultants, and the public

• Define the scope of a project
• Define and distinguish the differences between a project and program
• List the goals of portfolio management
• Recognize the level of authority of a project manager under various organizational structures
• List and define the characteristics of various organizational structures
• List the underlying concept for the interaction among the project management process
• List the characteristics of the Project Management Process for groups
• Identify project stakeholders and list actions to include them
• List the actions and activities that are necessary to satisfy completion or exit criteria for the project
• List actions for a project team to be successful
• Recognize project constraints
• Demonstrate knowledge of schedule compression techniques and how to obtain the greatest amount of compression for the least incremental cost
• Demonstrate knowledge of resource leveling
• Define and recognize the uses of analogous estimating
• Demonstrate the use of the Earned Value Technique (EVT)
• List the fundamental tenets of modern quality management and quality control
• Demonstrate the use of a work breakdown structure
• List the usefulness of bar charts
• Identify the key concepts of project cost management
• List and recognize the differences between pareto chart, bar chart, network diagram, and critical path

Studies, real-life examples, class exercises, and post course examination will be used to assess achievement of learning outcomes.

All participants receive the publication Construction Concepts and Practice.

This seminar is designed for design engineers, consulting engineers, project engineers, construction engineers, engineering project managers, and public works administrators who want to learn more about how to better manage the design of civil infrastructure projects - from conceptual design to construction documents.

Time:  8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Project Scoping and Conceptual Design  

• Defining the scope of a project
• Developing a project management plan
• Scope verification, monitoring and control
• Identifying Funding Sources

The Design Process - Execution, Monitoring, and Control

• Developing design schedules
• The importance of and determining milestones
• Selecting a Project Delivery Method - Design-Build, Design-Assist, and Design-Bid-Build
• Types and options for design and construction specifications

Establishing and Managing Design and Coordination Meetings

• Types of meetings and meeting conduct
• Setting agendas and meeting schedules
• Documentation and meeting minutes/notes and legal issues

Professional Services - The Role and Use of Engineering Design Consultants  

• Disciplines and types needed
• Developing Request for Proposals (RFP)
• Evaluating and selecting design consultants/sub-consultants
• Meeting Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) requirements for engineering design consultants

Establishing Design Schedules and Budgets  

• Project scheduling and management techniques
• Determining and estimating durations for design activities
• Techniques for estimating resource for design activities
• Schedule development and control
• Integrated time/cost management and control through earned value

Design Documentation and Record Keeping  

• Developing a File Management System
• Design documentation and recording design assumptions
• Design photographs and pre-construction photographs
• Use of computers and web-enabled project management applications
• Use of Geographic Information Systems

Quality Management during the Design Process

• Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) Fundamentals 
  -  Recommended Practices and Recommended procedures for QA/QC 
  -  Developing and implementing a QA/QC plan 
  -  Access to the design by QA/QC personnel 
  -  Project fast-tracking and the effect on contract document preparation
• Constructability Reviews 
  -  Integrating constructability reviews into the design process 
  -  Suggested methods for performing constructability reviews 
  -  Scheduling constructability reviews during the design process 
  -  Construction specifications and drawing conflicts

Public Outreach and Communications Management in the Design Phase

• Stakeholder identification and management
• Communication planning and Information distribution
• Developing Public Information Plans
• Planning and conducting Public Meetings
• How to work community organizations

Discounted hotel rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. See discount deadline and rates below.