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Spotlight on: Introduction to Blueprint Reading

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Reading blueprints is an essential skill for many construction professionals, as they form the basis of many projects. Our Introduction to Blueprint Reading course is perfect for someone new to reading blueprints. Here’s the course description:

Participants will learn how to read a set of construction blueprints and specifications. Using both residential and commercial samples of blueprints, participants will gain experience and practical knowledge for their day-to-day work in construction companies. This course is ideal for those who have little or no background in blueprint reading. At the end of the course participants will be able to:
  • Have an elementary knowledge of blueprint reading as it relates to building construction projects
  • Understand in general terms the design process and the role of design professionals
  • Understand how Building Codes and Bylaws impact blueprints
  • Understand specifications and the contractual hierarchy
  • Be able to find trade information using blueprints
  • Be able to answer basic construction questions related to the layout and installation of materials
  • Be able to identify elementary problems or short comings of the blueprints you are using
  • Be familiar with architectural, civil, electrical and mechanical drawings, and how they fit together
  • Understand and be able to use architectural & engineering scales
  • Understand how to convert engineering dimensions to architectural
  • Know what a floor plan, section and elevation are
  • Understand symbols, notation, abbreviations and material schedules
  • Be able to work with the drawings to obtain basic information on dimension, finishes, details, area calculations, and the ability to do simple material take offs
  • Be familiar with both commercial and residential blueprints

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Spotlight on: Microsoft Excel for Business and Microsoft Excel Advanced

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Microsoft Excel is used in nearly every office in North America, in some capacity. Continuing our series on our Microsoft courses (click here for our post about Microsoft Project, and here for our post about Microsoft Outlook), today we are focusing on Microsoft Excel for Business and Microsoft Excel Advanced.

First, let’s start with the course description for Microsoft Excel for Business:

Learn to use Excel to create budgets, track costs and generate quotes.  Learn tools and ideas that will save time and create professional looking proposals and plans.  Participants with only a very basic knowledge of Excel will quickly progress to create basic databases, budgets, graphs, reports and the fundamentals of building equations.

Spotlight on: Effective Management Skills

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The human element is the core of any business, but sometimes managing those humans can be a challenge. Our Effective Management Skills course aims to fix that problem by teaching participants practical strategies and techniques to bring out the best in people and that can be applied the same day. Here’s the course description:

Everyone agrees that the most important asset of any organization is the human asset.  Thus, the all important question becomes – How much untapped potential, energy, commitment and creativity currently exists within your organization, team or department?  What would it mean to your culture and bottom-line if you could learn to unleash just 10% more of the latent human potential?

Spotlight On: Microsoft Outlook – Strategic Management

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Email rules most of our lives, both personally and professionally. Microsoft Outlook is one of the most-used communication tools for email and task scheduling, and we want to help you use it to make you more efficient. Our Microsoft Outlook – Strategic Management course will save you hours per week (we will personally attest to this), and help your business run more smoothly. [Read more…]

Spotlight on: Understanding Project Management

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Understanding Project Management is one of our most-asked-for courses, which is not a surprise! Projects happen in almost every field, so this course can be useful to people outside of the construction industry as well! Here’s the course description:

Whether you manage internal projects, contribute to a project (i.e. subcontract) or oversee projects (i.e. General Contractor), understanding the whole project management picture is essential to making your contribution to the project as successful as possible.
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