Construction Supervision Certification Training Course

Why select this training course? 

Construction supervision implies continuous monitoring, coordination, and inspection of construction activities in a timely, professional, and competent manner to ensure adherence to approved construction and contract documents, relevant regulations, and project schedules. Construction activities encompass all work and services on the construction site necessary for project completion, whether by the builders or contractors. Construction supervisors play a crucial role in facilitating communication between stakeholders, resolving issues that arise during construction, and ensuring that projects are delivered on time and within budget.

This Rcademy Construction Supervision Certification Training Course emphasises practical strategies for professionals, covering project lifecycle stages like feasibility, design, procurement, and construction. It highlights the need for managerial, technical, and supervisory skills to ensure project success and minimise risks. The Rcademy Construction Supervision Certification Training Course covers a wide range of topics essential for successful project management, including project planning, scheduling, budgeting, quality control, safety management, and communication skills. The training course will explore in detail the role and responsibility of a construction supervisor and examine in depth the major principles of managing teams and resources to get the best outcomes from them. The Rcademy Construction Supervision Certification Training Course will emphasise managing intricate changes, resolving disputes and claims, fostering collaboration and coordination, meeting deadlines, and multitasking on-site, among other emerging techniques in construction project management.

A site construction supervisor oversees specific on-site tasks, ensures compliance with safety regulations, manages subcontractors, and reports progress. They typically operate under the direction of a site manager. Conversely, a site manager, also known as a construction manager or project manager, has broader responsibilities, including overall project planning, coordination, budgeting, scheduling, quality control, client communication, and stakeholder management. They are accountable for the project’s success, managing all aspects from inception to completion. While the supervisor focuses on day-to-day operations, the site manager holds greater authority and is responsible for the project’s overall success and adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

Who should attend?

• Construction supervisors are tasked with overseeing on-site activities and ensuring adherence to plans, schedules, safety regulations, and quality standards.
• Site engineers manage on-site technical aspects, including construction progress, materials, equipment, and resolving technical issues.
• New construction project professionals are charged with coordinating the planning, design, procurement, and execution of new construction projects from conception to completion.
• Construction managers are tasked with planning, coordinating, and overseeing construction projects, ensuring they are completed safely, on time, and within budget.
• Civil engineers are tasked with designing, constructing, and maintaining infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, and water supply systems.
• Structural engineers are charged with designing and analysing structural components of buildings and infrastructure to ensure safety and stability.
• Construction estimators are tasked with calculating project costs, analysing materials, labour, and overheads, and preparing accurate construction project budgets.

What are the course objectives?

The main objectives of this Rcademy Construction Supervision Certification Training Course are to enable the participants to:

• Learn cost control, construction processes, techniques, regulations, and best practices for supervising projects.
• Understand relevant laws, regulations, and safety protocols to ensure compliance and maintain a safe working environment.
• Learn and understand progress payment administration.
• Evaluate claims, amicably resolve conflicts and design a transformative working environment to inspire productivity.
• Manage and supervise the performance of other professionals and underlings in the construction industry.
• Cultivate professionalism, integrity, and ethical conduct in construction supervision practices.

How will this Course be Presented?

This Rcademy Construction Supervision Certification Training Course is participant-based and specially designed to fulfil their expectations while improving their skills and knowledge base. Different techniques and approaches that ensure active participant learning will be employed to deliver the training. Experts in the field with years of practice and experience will deliver the training course with a comprehensive understanding of the participants. The modules are created following in-depth and thorough research.

Rcademy Construction Supervision Certification Training Course provides practical and theoretical learning through subject slides, real-life situation adaptations, and lecture notes. Participants will also participate in seminar workshops, quizzes, presentations, and constant feedback on the lessons learned to ensure their satisfaction.

What are the Topics Covered in this Course?

Module 1: Introduction to Control, Planning, Monitoring, and Scheduling

• Site compliance and corrective action
• Communication and updating the existing schedules
• Managing the foreseeable and anticipated risks
• Gathering information using the feedback plan
• Managing non-foreseeable and unanticipated risks
• Factors affecting progress and how to monitor the KPIs
• Scheduling and resourcing issues
• Dealing with challenges and the way forward

 Module 2: Industrial Health and Safety

• Healthy compliance management
• Contractual issues and exposures in any new or existing construction site
• Ensuring the safety of construction equipment
• Clear characteristics and types of roles and responsibilities
• Safety and sustainability compliance management
• Jobsite conditions to remove all hazards
• Environmental safety compliance
• Basic safety guidelines

Module 3: Construction Law and Regulations

• Emerging legal issues
• Government contracting regulations
• Insurance and surety law
• Environmental regulations in waste management, pollution prevention and land use
• Occupational health and safety regulations: Understanding OSHA
• Construction liens
• Building codes and regulations
• Contract law: formation, interpretation, performance and termination

Module 4: Dispute Resolution, Handling Claims, and Changes

• The ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) methods and techniques
• How to handle claims
• Resolving disputes in an amicable way
• Dealing with complex changes
• Dispute management and handling
• Causes of rapid changes and how to manage these kinds of changes
• Negotiation strategies to handle various challenges and disputes

Module 5: Project Documentation and Reporting

• Project Management Plan (PMP)
• Progress reports: schedule adherence, budget status and challenges
• Meeting minutes recording
• Change orders
• Risk registers
• Issue logs
• Quality assurance records
• Project closure documentation

Module 6: Handling the Key Site Players

• Team phases and how to handle them
• Leading an owner and contractor meeting
• Controlling various security hazards
• Managing and matching expectations
• Harmonisation
• Master schedule

Module 7: How to Deal with Stringent Challenges

• Confined spaces, poor services, utilities and structures erected for temporary use
• Line-of-balance
• Network logic
• Bar chart
• Developing a good development plan

Module 8: Technical Skills Requirement

• Skills checklist
• Soil investigation handling and report writing
• Construction elements synchronisation
• Reading design drawings
• Introduction to reinforced concrete use and concrete
• Soil investigation development and soil mechanics challenges
• Project cash flow and progress payment
• Observing precautions during the construction of foundations
• Ensuring concrete quality

Module 9: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Tools for Construction Dispute Handling

• Arbitration
• Med-adjudication
• Conciliation
• Third-party opinion and mediation
• Neutral fact-finding
• Consumers rights act
• Early neutral evaluation
• Outside-court settlement

Module 10: Work Scheduling

• Quantitative scheduling
• PERT (Program evaluation and review technique)
• Expected time
• Most likely time
• Optimistic time
• Pessimistic time
• Resources-oriented scheduling
• Using Gantt charts
• Last planner system
• Critical path method

Module 11: Handling Workers

• Celebrating wins
• Engaging the workers regularly
• Utilize collaborative systems
• Reducing stress in the workplace
• Daily tasks assignment
• Setting clear expectation

Module 12: Trends

• Modular construction
• Green construction and sustainability
• Mobile and cloud technology
• Drones for construction
• Robotics, AI, IoT and AR
• Offsite construction
• Prefabrication
• Smart city
• Software for construction management