Construction

Series
Management
Engineering Education Australia
workshop series to develop your
emerging engineers into
construction managers with the
skills to optimise value and reduce
construction risk.
Based on what
construction engineers
say about PD needs
This series of training workshops is the outcome
of a collaboration with the National Committee
for Construction Engineering (NCCE) and EEA.
It commenced with researching Engineers
Australia members including NCCE. Construction
engineers told us they wanted more learning
opportunities on managing:
Contracts Risk Projects
Design Health and Safety
Series Outline
Managing Construction Contracts
This two day workshop will discuss key concepts in contract
management, with particular focus on construction. Topics
include creating a contract, managing performance including
lateness and termination, liability in construction cases,
disclosure, anti-competitive practices, payments, extensions of
time, latent conditions, standards compliance, intellectual
property and design work. Many case studies in construction
management course will be considered.
Design Management for Construction
This one day workshop addresses how to maximise the design
outcomes through excellence in managing design consultants. The
workshop covers value management, design procurement, design
risks, constructability in design, safety
in design and management of designers. Learning applies to
both temporary and permanent works design.
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Understanding the need for better design management
Tools to analyse and understand where value is best created
Critical success factors for design management
Developing a comprehensive design brief that avoids issues
The structure/roles and competencies required for best
results
Understand optioneering process, and dealing with
constructability risks and safety in design risks
Methods of monitoring Design progress
Process of scope change management
Outline


Introduction to Law
Creating a contract including defining the terms and
conditions
Managing contractor performance in a construction context:
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Late performance
Termination clauses
Extensions of time
Latent conditions
Payments
Force Majeure
Assignment of contractual rights
Risk
Insurance
Fitness for purpose



Managing Construction Health and Safety
This one day workshop is designed to develop the knowledge
and skills essential in implementing effective and proactive OHS
management on site.
You will learn that compliance alone does not ensure a
safe work environment; it relies on competent people, fit
for purpose equipment, safe work practices and sound
management techniques, enmeshed in an informed, just and
proactive safety culture.









Liability in a construction context
Disclosure during the negotiation phase
Contract negotiation
Anti-competitive aspects
Outsourcing versus in-house
Types of contracts including alliance contracting
Design and intellectual property
The tendering stage
Awareness of the kinds of construction disputes that arise
and how to minimise them
Outline
Developing a safety culture creating a proactive safety
culture
Legal framework and what it means meeting and exceeding
compliance
Designing for safety managing risk in safe design
Ensuring site safety getting the standard of safety that you
expect
Responding to incidents incident management, notification,
investigation and close out
Industrial implications of OHS keeping OHS issues, safety
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Series Learning Outcomes
1 Improve your understanding of contract law and techniques
to effectively negotiate and manage a construction contract
including how to avoid pitfalls and work through disputes.
4 How to better manage key risks through a framework and
process that is consistent with ISO 31000 including how to
interpret the corporate risk policy from the perspective of a
particular project.
2 Refresh and enhance your project management tools and
techniques to better manage procurement, people, works and
progress reporting.
5 Develop the tools to assist you to understand how to create
an appropriate safety culture onsite and to effectively utilise
the health and safety function to improve outcomes.
3 Structure, selection and management of the
design process to enhance value management,
manage design risks and ensure delivery of a safe
constructible design.
Project Management
This two day workshop will refresh and enhance your
project management skills. Project Management is a critical
management technique that enhances the capacity to deliver on
time, to budget and fit for purpose.
Importantly, it will provide you with an overview of key elements
of project governance whilst equipping you to better manage key
stakeholders through effectively monitoring of works competed in
progress and scheduled.
Managing Construction Risks
This one day workshop presents the use of risk registers to
identify, analyse and prepare treatments for risks encountered
through all stages of a design and build contract. The course
investigates the management of risk through
Communication and consultation




Establishing the context
Risk assessment Risk
treatment Monitoring
and review
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Formalising the approach and process across the project team
Articulating the critical pathway and ownership and assigning
responsibility
Developing the full project plan
Effectively sharing the plan
Monitoring and reporting on the project
Stuff happens dealing with things from left field
Tender handover
Effective resourcing
Communication
Look ahead programs/estimates to complete/monitoring
Understand how to effectively apply ISO 31000:2009 Risk
Management Principles and Guidelines
Understand the risks in the key stages of pre-tender,
contract award and design, and delivery, commissioning and
handover.
Identify, analyse and treat risks at each stage through the use
of a risk register
Understand the Risk management process from a
Contractor/client perspectives
Identify risks from sites, environment, design, resources,
planning and more












Target Audience
Engineers involved in construction who are:
1 Looking to establish a career as a construction manager.
2 A construction manager seeking to improve their skills
Series Facilitators
Anthony Gray
Managing Construction Contracts
Associate Professor Anthony Gray has delivered Contract
Management courses for Engineering Education Australia
for more than ten years. He runs 26 of these courses
each year, in various cities around Australia. Feedback
from participants in these courses is typically extremely
positive. He also trains employees in various engineering
firms, including Thiess, Thales and Defence. He is a
lawyer with a background in commercial law. He has been a
Director of the Queensland Law Society, and currently works
as Associate Professor at the University of Southern
Queensland, in addition to his consulting role in the area
of Contract Management. He was recognised for his services
in this field with his inclusion in Whos Who in the World in
2009.
Alan Weston
Managing Construction Health and Safety
Alan has a construction and training background with
experience in numerous areas of construction and related
industries. He has instigated safety systems, process, reporting,
and safety professional development for power generation,
construction, mining, electrical, water treatment, facilities
management and maintenance. He has also worked in rail
construction, maintenance and operations around Australia. He
facilitated the development and gained national accreditation
for Certificate IV Safety Leadership OHS - Construction, a first
for the Construction industry.
This qualification is promoted by the Office of the Federal
Safety Commission as an example of best practice.
Peter Godfrey
Managing Construction Risks
Peter Godfrey is a civil engineer with extensive management
experience. He commenced his professional career over thirty
years ago and has progressed through engineering roles to
senior management positions. Peter has extensive experience
in civil contracting, construction materials, equipment supply,
local government and consulting industries. He has worked
for Boral, CSR, William Adams, Brambles, Coffey, and the
Tasmanian government owned Civil Construction Corporation
(now part of Downer EDI Works). In 1997, Peter established
BAS Consulting, which provides senior management support
in the areas of strategy development, change management and
project delivery. Peter was the 2009 National President
of Engineers Australia.
Peter Stewart
Design Management for Construction
Peter Stewart has 40 years experience in the civil
engineering construction industry. Peter provided design
coordination for several significant projects in Australia, the
most notable being the ACA award winning Woronora
Bridge in 2002 and Sea Cliff Bridge which was an ACAA
finalist in 2006. Peter was honoured with the Australian Civil
Engineer of the Year Award 2005. He established his own
consulting practice which commenced operations from
1st July 2006 providing professional services to the civil
construction industry. These services cover construction
methods, risk analysis, value engineering, option selection
and also include alliance contracting facilitation.
Iain Polley
Project Management
Iain has been involved in Project Management for over 30
years, as a practitioner, training consultant, trouble-shooter,
scoping and planning facilitator, and, over the last ten years,
as an competency assessor. Iain has worked with many
organisations from both the private and public sectors,
and has wide experience in different types and phases of
projects. Iain has worked with engineers of all disciplines and
with engineering organisations across all sectors of
engineering. Iain has a Grad Dip in Project Management and
a Diploma of Training and Assessment Systems. He is
a member of the Australian Institute of Project Management
(AIPM), and the Project Management Institute (PMI).
For Further Information
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