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A new course to close out 2018!

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We constantly strive to keep our course offerings up to date and relevant to the industry, so we aim to add new courses to our calendar several times a year! Our latest new workshop is Lean for Construction – A Practical Approach. We want to help you reduce costs, improve lead times, and foster collaboration by introducing key Lean concepts and how they can applied on a daily basis. Not sure what Lean for Construction is? Here’s a good overview.

Here’s what you’ll learn in our workshop:

A practical, jargon-free approach to Lean
Implement a culture of problem solving in 4 simple steps:

  • Define value from your customer’s perspective
  • Capture the current state: visually capture all activities required to bring the project from initiation to completion
    • The importance of value-adding work
    • How to capture the 8 types of waste
  • Develop the plan: prioritize wastes for elimination
  • Improve using Plan, Do, Check, Act: design and implement effective solutions

The resulting impact on costs, lead-time, quality, and culture 

The importance of team work and collaboration

This course is taking place in Burnaby on December 12; you’ll also earn 7.5 Group A CPD Points from BC Housing and 1 Gold Seal Credit! You can register for this or any of our other upcoming courses here.

Getting ready to take your Carpentry Red Seal Exam? We have the course for you!

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Getting ready to take your Red Seal Exam in Carpentry and want to refresh your knowledge? We can help!

On November 23 to 25, we are offering an exam preparation course in Victoria aimed at helping you brush up on the theory that you’ll need when you write your exam to become a Red Seal-designated Carpenter. This intensive three-day session is perfect for people who have met the Industry Training Authority (ITA) challenge requirements or who have failed the exam on their previous attempts.

In order to write the exam, you will need to have a minimum of 9,720 hours of workplace experience in the trade, or have completed all four years of technical training plus 6,480 hours of workplace training. You also must have an exam challenge application approved by the ITA. For more information and to register, click here.

For a full list of our upcoming courses, visit www.trainingnetwork.ca/courses.

Have a question? Let us know! Contact us and we’ll be happy to help.

Spotlight on: Change Order Management

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Changes are inevitable. Changes at home, changes at work… Changes in construction! But change orders can be managed, and our Change Order Management course on September 7 in Burnaby is here to help. 

Unnecessary project disruptions, cost increases and schedule delays can result from change orders not being managed well. This course will provide participants with best practices for successfully navigating this complex project management challenge.

Here are just a few things that participants will learn:

  • How to identify changes from the original contract
  • How to document the changes
  • How to price changes fairly and realistically
  • How to present and negotiate changes collaboratively
  • How to understand the importance of early detection of change orders
  • How to negotiate delay claims caused by changes
  • How to understand the wording within commonly used contracts eg., CCDC 2 and CCA 1
  • How to develop a change order process for a construction company
  • How to issue a notice of dispute
  • How to proactively negotiating fair time and material rates at the bidding stage of a project.

You’ll earn 1 Gold Seal Credit and 7.5 Group A CPD Points at this course! For more information and to register, click the link, or check out our full course calendar here.

Looking to take a course this summer? Try an online one!

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Yep, you read correctly. Did you know that we offer online courses as well as our classroom sessions? We have over a dozen courses that you can take at your leisure, including Pipeline Construction Safety Training, Construction Project Management, and Lockout/Tagout Awareness. 

Life and work gets in the way sometimes, and that could prevent you from taking one of our in-person courses. We get that, which is why we’re pleased to be able to offer online courses too. Most of them also offer Gold Seal Credits and BC Housing CPD Points!

Check out the full list of online courses here.

We’re always happy to talk training; shoot us an email at info@trainingnetwork.ca any time!

Spotlight on: Project Planning and Cost Control

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Controlling your costs is a very important aspect of business and planning your projects effectively will definitely help you with that goal! Our popular Project Planning and Cost Control workshop is back in Burnaby on May 31 to June 1 and we can’t wait! 

The course is designed to provide owners, managers, estimators, and field personnel with a general knowledge of the process of planning and controlling a project from beginning to end utilizing ways and means of monitoring, saving and controlling costs. Here’s what’s covered:

  • Understanding the impact and methodology of construction cost control.
  • Ways and means of minimizing and controlling costs on site.
  • Project cost forecasting and accounting functions on site.
  • Project planning and its purpose and effect on project cost control.
  • How to communicate & assist management re: cost methods and control.
  • Gain additional insight into the process of work and cost analysis.
  • Cost reporting systems – new technology in monitoring costs and reports.
  • Understanding the effect improper field reporting has on cost control. Maintaining and managing documents, material, tools and equipment.
  • Understanding the Contract process from bidding to project close-out.
  • Review of 100 companies and their methods in controlling & saving costs.

You’ll also earn 5 Gold Seal Credits and 16 Group A and 16 Group B Continued Professional Development Points from BC Housing. Don’t miss your chance to register here, or check out our full course calendar.

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