BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20181031T114500Z DTEND:20181031T193000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:10/31/2018 Planning & Productivity for the FM/PM Team-John Koontz DESCRIPTION:Pre-Construction Planning and its Effect on Profitability/ Conducting Effective Turnover Meetings 4 hours \n\nInvesting project management resources in pre-construction project planning always yields significantly higher project productivity and profitability. All great foremen and all great project managers are master planners. Energetic in-class discussion will identify thorough pre-construction planning methods that are mandatory procedures for all projects regardless of size\, difficulty\, etc. Effective turnover meetings maximize project profitability through the timely and complete transfer of information from estimators to project managers and field supervisors. They provide for standardized information exchange and facilitate project planning and control. This session covers all the fundamentals for conducting an effective turnover meeting.\n\n\n\nProductivity Improvement for Mechanical Projects 4 hours \n\nGreat project management\, by both the foreman and project manager\, is primarily responsible for creating excellent productivity on every project. Due to the endless number of variables which negatively affect worker efficiency\, excellent productivity is the project team's greatest challenge. Productivity also has the greatest positive or negative impact on project and company profitability. Excellent productivity requires proactive\, diligent\, and detailed planning by the project manager and foreman at each step of the project.\n\nIn this session\, the instructor will provide proven methods and practices for creating\, controlling\, and improving project productivity on all types of projects. The following topics (and others) will be presented and discussed in this class:\n\n Material handling practices that guarantee improved jobsite productivity\n\n Understanding "average" productivity and the "typical" construction site work day\n\n Identifying\, managing\, and controlling recoverable lost time\n\n Understanding the differences between management-caused lost time and worker-caused lost time\n\n Understanding the differences and the important connection between punctuality and productivity\n\n Optimum crew size and its effect on productivity \n\n The relationship between planning\, productivity\, and profitability\n\n Planning activities that have huge impacts on productivity\n\n Identifying and controlling the internal and external factors that affect productivity \n\n Fabrication\, preassembly\, tagging\, bagging\, and its effect on productivity\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Instructor\n\nJohn Koontz has 30 years of wide-ranging mechanical industry experience that includes contracting\, academics\, and consulting. He spent 15 years in the employment of MCAA contractors in a variety of positions including senior project manager\, project manager\, project engineer\, and estimator.\n\n \n\nHe is a former Tenured Associate Professor in Purdue University's Department of Building Construction Management. He is also the founder and former director of Purdue's Mechanical Construction Management Specialization Program\, and is the founder of the 1st ever MCAA student chapter which was started at Purdue in 1993.\n\n \n\nSince leaving Purdue in 1999 to join the MCAA full time\, Professor Koontz has spent over 2\,000 days traveling throughout America speaking\, teaching\, training\, consulting\, and writing about all subjects related to the mechanical contracting industry. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Pre-Construction Planning and its Effect on Profitability/ Conducting Effective Turnover Meetings \;&ndash\; 4 hours \;
\nInvesting project management resources in pre-construction project planning always yields significantly higher project productivity and profitability. All great foremen and all great project managers are master planners. Energetic in-class discussion will identify thorough pre-construction planning methods that are mandatory procedures for all projects regardless of size\, difficulty\, etc. Effective turnover meetings maximize project profitability through the timely and complete transfer of information from estimators to project managers and field supervisors. They provide for standardized information exchange and facilitate project planning and control. This session covers all the fundamentals for conducting an effective turnover meeting.
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\nProductivity Improvement for Mechanical Projects \;&ndash\; 4 \;hours \; \;
\nGreat project management\, by both the foreman and project manager\, is primarily responsible for creating excellent productivity on every project. \; Due to the endless number of variables which negatively affect worker efficiency\, excellent productivity is the project team&rsquo\;s greatest challenge. \; Productivity also has the greatest positive or negative impact on project and company profitability. \; Excellent productivity requires proactive\, diligent\, and detailed planning by the project manager and foreman at each step of the project.
\nIn this session\, the instructor will provide proven methods and practices for creating\, controlling\, and improving project productivity on all types of projects. \; \;The following topics (and others) will be presented and discussed in this class:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Material handling practices that guarantee improved jobsite productivity
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Understanding &ldquo\;average&rdquo\; productivity and the &ldquo\;typical&rdquo\; construction site work day
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Identifying\, managing\, and controlling recoverable lost time
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Understanding the differences between management-caused lost time and worker-caused lost time
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Understanding the differences and the important connection between punctuality and productivity
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Optimum crew size and its effect on productivity \;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;The relationship between planning\, productivity\, and profitability
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Planning activities that have huge impacts on productivity
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Identifying and controlling the internal and external factors that affect productivity \;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Fabrication\, preassembly\, tagging\, bagging\, and its effect on productivity
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\nAbout the Instructor
\nJohn Koontz has 30 years of wide-ranging mechanical industry experience that includes contracting\, academics\, and consulting. \; \;He spent 15 years in the employment of MCAA contractors in a variety of positions including senior project manager\, project manager\, project engineer\, and estimator.
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\nHe is a former Tenured Associate Professor in Purdue University&rsquo\;s Department of Building Construction Management. \; \;He is also the founder and former director of Purdue&rsquo\;s Mechanical Construction Management Specialization Program\, and is the founder of the 1st ever MCAA student chapter which was started at Purdue in 1993.
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\nSince leaving Purdue in 1999 to join the MCAA full time\, Professor Koontz has spent over 2\,000 days traveling throughout America speaking\, teaching\, training\, consulting\, and writing about all subjects related to the mechanical contracting industry.
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\n \; LOCATION:PLEASE NOTE THE ADDRESS: Chubb Conference Center 301 Manor Road Lafayette Hill\, PA 19444 UID:e.9527.69 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260410T181843Z URL:http://mcaepa.memberzone.com/events/details/10-31-2018-planning-productivity-for-the-fm-pm-team-john-koontz-69 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR