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 – 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
MS Project Training for Construction Project Managers
September 5 and 12, 2024
2 PM – 5 PM ET | 11 AM -1 PM PT
Registration Fee: $400
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.
Learner Take-aways:
- Recognize types of schedules and their application
- Define scheduling terms and functions
- Navigate MS Project software
- Create a simple schedule in MS Project
- Identify MS Project tools and best practices
- Update existing schedule in MS Project
Technology/software requirements: Must either have an active Microsoft Project license or download the trial. Workshops are delivered via the Zoom platform; a webcam and mic are required for participation. Headsets or earbuds are strongly recommended.
Who should attend: Project managers, project engineers and field supervisors who need to make or update schedules.
Construction Site Logistics with Bluebeam
September 19, 2024
11 AM – 3 PM ET | 8 AM -12 PM PT
Registration Fee: $450
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.
Technology/software requirements: Workshops are delivered via the Zoom platform; a webcam and mic are required for participation. A laptop with headsets or earbuds are strongly recommended. Participants must have Bluebeam downloaded and installed. Participants will be required to download the trial version if they do not already have the Bluebeam software.
Blueprint Reading
October 14, 15, 16, 17
3 – 6 PM ET | 12 – 3 PM PT
Registration Fee: $650
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.
Blueprint Reading
December 2, 3, 9, 10
2 – 5 PM EST | 11 AM – 2 PM PST
Registration Fee: $650
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.
