Remaining Duration: The Overlooked Aspect
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Speaker : SALEH MUBARAK
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When : Friday, January 24, 2025
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Time : 03 : 00 PM EST
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Saleh Mubarak, Ph.D.
- Construction project management professional, professor, consultant, author, public speaker, and trainer.
- Ph.D. in civil engineering from Clemson University, USA, specializing in Construction Project Management.
- Experience: 30+ years, diversified:
o Industrial: private and public sectors, in the U.S. and international. Positions occupied include project engineer/manager, cost estimator, planner/scheduler, project controls manager, cost manager, and training manager.
o Academic: faculty member/professor, head of department.
- Extensive experience in continuing education and professional training around the world.
- Author of:
o Construction Project Scheduling and Control, 4th edition
o How to Estimate with Means Data: Basic Skills for Building Construction, 5th edition.
o Many articles; technical and other
- Many presentations in professional conferences such as PMI, and AACE International. Public speaker in many local, regional, and international events.
- An authority on project planning, scheduling, and project control.
This seminar focuses on schedule updating, steps, and tips, for better results. We dive deep into each activity, especially those in progress, to measure or calculate:
- Work performed and the time it took (actual duration)
- Work yet to be performed and the time it is expected to take.
We, further, compare the actual baseline and see how much we conform to the baseline, as things in construction projects, often don’t go exactly as planned. The seminar looks at frequent mistakes in this matter; their cases and solutions.
Areas Covered
- Discussion of how to estimate/calculate remaining durations for in-progress activities.
- Studying scenarios when things on the ground don’t go as planned.
- Impact on succeeding activities and the entire project.
- Examples and general tips
Who Should Attend
This seminar is important for the entire project management team, particularly planners and schedulers, contractors, project managers, project controls managers, cost estimators, and other project management team members.
Why Should You Attend
Attending this seminar is important to open our eyes to issues that we often overlook, but they may have a serious impact on the schedule and operations related to the schedule. Computer software these days makes a lot of chores easy and fast, but we must be careful and have educated common-sense judgement on input and output, and in interpreting the output. Remaining duration is one of these thorny issues where accuracy and educated common-sense judgement is greatly demanded.
Topic Background
Updating schedules is a must: Required by both most contracts and the technical needs on the ground. Mistakes that happen in the process of schedule updating lead to a series of problems including idle time for crews, shortage of materials, cash flow issues, delays, and chaos. One major mistake is the “spotlight syndrome” when we focus our attention on what we believe is the area of importance (work performed), when indeed, there might be other areas that need attention as well, namely work to be done.
These mistakes happen for several reasons including overlooking the numbers, wrong calculations, and overdependency on computer processing.
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$160.00
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