PE3 – Planning & Scheduling of Construction Project(Webinar | Sep 19, 2025)

Course Title: Planning and Scheduling of Construction Project

Description of the Course

This training seminar will present the participants with straightforward approaches to developing and setting up a schedule baseline. It will also provide participants with a proven set of methods, processes, tools, and techniques to develop a systematic and dynamic project plan to ensure progressive monitoring control, and reporting of project schedule.

Objectives

After the training, the participants should be able to:

• describe how a work breakdown structure is used as input to developing a project plan
• use a work breakdown structure and define work deliverables
• describe the basis of a project schedule and the link between a work breakdown structure and a project schedule
• describe the different types of activity relationships
• explain what precedence diagramming methods are and how they can be used to understand project duration and flexibility
• use a precedence diagramming method to deliver a project schedule with durations
• define the principles behind time and cost estimation
• use estimation tools and techniques to present expected project costs and durations
• define and develop a cost budget

Course Outline:

1. Introduction
   • Course expectations
   • Overview of the course
2. Basics of Project Management
3. Work Breakdown Structure
   • Scope Management
   • Decomposition
   • WBS Development
4. Plan Schedule Management
   • Define Activities
   • Sequence Activities
   • Estimate Activity Resources
   • Estimate Activity Durations
   • Develop a Schedule
   • Schedule Compression
   • Control Schedule
5. Overview of Softwares used in Planning and Schedule Management
   (MS Project, Primavera P6, TILOS)
6. (Project Management Institute) PMI’s standard on Scheduling
7. Scheduling Tips & Tricks

Target Participants:

This course is ideal for:

• Project Engineers
• Site Engineers
• Construction Managers
• Planners and Schedulers
• Contractors and Consultants
• Quantity Surveyors
• Technical Staff involved in project implementation and monitoring