This three (3) day / four (4) day optional course is directed to engineers, constructors, managers and others responsible for the identification, development, costing, engineering and construction of grassroots, brownfield and maintenance projects in industrial facilities including refineries, oil sands plants, chemical processing facilities and other heavy industrial facilities.  This course emphasizes the practical application of the essential concepts & techniques of project management from inception through to commissioning of these facilities.  Insights, techniques and tools are provided to timely detect and, as is often the case, to recover from trending cost and schedule overruns. Vulnerabilities & cautions are discussed especially when using contracted services.

A study of traditional project management methods concluded, and, as observed from the trade press, only 44% of projects finish on time and typically run more than triple planned schedule duration and original budget .  Consider the Trans Mountain Expansion project; in 1951, this 1,150 km cost $93,000,000 ($80,000 / km, 1½ year completion). The current TransMountain expansion project had an initial budget of $7B and currently estimated at $30B (1Q2023, $26,000,000 / km) with a 10+ year project schedule). Other equally notorious projects; almost any oil sands expansion project in Alberta, and even limited plant turn-around, small scope, in-plant projects are susceptible to major cost and schedule overruns. These are truly disgraceful performances that almost defy explanation.

This course provides a QUICK START for EARLY-CAREER and refresher for "SEASONED" practitioners to implement focused project & construction management for small and large projects; whether less than $1M, up to $150M or multi-$ billion, this course reveals the human factors, the technical concepts, techniques, templates and examples to execute these projects.   While more idealized and extended formal treatments are available to the reader, such as Project Management Institute (PMI) offerings (e.g., PMBOK Guide, PMP designation), this course delivers on the realities of the subject matter by focusing on essentials.