It’s never been easier to equip your team with the insights needed to boost jobsite safety & productivity.
AGC’s Continuing Edge Workshops give your team a crash course in the most pressing topics facing our industry. Each program immerses attendees in a 4 to 12-hour learning experience designed to empower them to leave as a more confident & well-informed leader.
These concise, targeted training sessions are delivered through dynamic Zoom classrooms. Participants must have video and audio functions active to maximize interaction with both facilitators and peers.
Continuing Edge Workshops
Join this 4-part series, designed to provide you with the foundational knowledge and ‘hands on’ classroom experience, to help get you started in understanding construction design documents.
This blueprint reading series is developed to instruct each student in the basic understanding of construction blueprints & specifications. Every construction professional, whether working in the field or in the office, must know how to read plans. Although not overly complicated, beginning to read blueprints does require a basic understanding, practice and general knowledge of industry standards used to communicate project design.
What you can expect to gain from this course:
- An introductory & foundational knowledge of blueprint reading as it relates to building construction projects.
- Hands on practice and understanding of reading blueprints and specifications manuals.
- Be able to locate both general & specific trade information using blueprints & Specifications.
- Be able to answer basic construction questions related to design intent, project layout and the installation of materials at the jobsite.
- Be able to locate, identify & understand project specific aspects within the design documents.
Take control of the jobsite. All the tools you need to finish the job faster.
Bluebeam construction software makes it easy to create, organize and share detailed site logistics plans for even the most complex jobsites.
Want to learn how to create great site logistics plans? This 4-hour Bluebeam course will teach you just that! You’ll learn the basic and advanced tools for logistics plans, like how to draw work areas, and fences, and show equipment areas and work zones. You will learn how to represent the flow of work and materials and you will learn to use simple symbols for things like first aid, trailers, and entrances/exits.
Come join us and find out how Bluebeam can make your logistics plans awesome!
Learner Take-aways:
- Create customized markups for site planning and coordination.
- Creating a tool chest of logistics items for future use.
- Develop Dynamic tool sets that auto-resize as per the PDF’s scale.
- Establish legends for immediate visual interpretation of markup signs in PDFs.
- Working with BIM and 3D images
- Utilize Bluebeam Studio for team collaboration and reviewing your logistics plans.
As a project manager, your job is to minimize risk on a project by participating in the planning, implementation and monitoring of the project schedule, budget and quality control. The schedule is a key tool used to communicate to all stakeholders on the project and create both big and small snapshots of actual and planned progress. Join this interactive class to review, discuss and demonstrate MS project and best practices of construction project scheduling.
Many companies are turning to MS Project and many have been self-taught to use the software. This class goes into an intermediate level of using MS Project beyond the basics, reviewing the tracking, updating, resource planning and cost functions of the program. The course uses a sample project and interactive exercises to demonstrate the functions of MS Project.
Who should attend: This course is for users of MS Project who have not had formal training in the program and want to expand their knowledge beyond the basics.
Learner Take-aways:
- Outline Project Manager responsibilities related to scheduling
- Manipulate a project schedule to show progress
- Apply scheduling, resource planning and cost control to MS Project
- Practice resource planning, merging projects and reporting
- Explore best practices for Project Managers
Never developed a schedule, but work with them all the time? This class will review the definitions and development for schedules through an introduction to MS Project. By the end of this class, you will understand scheduling terminology and be able to develop, print and update a simple schedule.
The schedule is a key tool used to communicate to all stakeholders on the project and create both big and small snapshots of actual and planned progress. Learning MS Project will assist construction leaders in being more efficient and more effective.
MS Project is becoming more popular as a scheduling tool due to its availability for all levels of construction companies.
Who should attend: Project managers, project engineers and field supervisors who need to make or update schedules and are newer to using MS Project.
Learner Take-aways:
- Review basics of scheduling from history to now
- Define terminology used in scheduling
- Outline scheduling best practices
- Demonstrate MS project software
- Apply MS Project to sample project
Additionally, Hispanics are projected to account for 75% of workforce growth between 2020 – 2034. Critically, over 60% of immigrant workers do not speak English.
With a long list of risks of a monolingual workforce, how do construction companies build and retain a workforce? Many are building a bilingual workforce. Equip your teams with the language skills needed to be successful at work – through a proven model that’s fun, dynamic, and culturally-rich. 100% online.
With a focus on the construction industry (shown to have the largest language gap…), many corporate clients opt for the bilingual learning approach: Spanish and English (for Spanish speakers). Learn from expert instructors – professionally trained in second language learning through an accredited program (as it takes way more than being a native speaker of the language) – and through our customized curriculum, designed in-house to meet the unique needs of your industry.
