Construction project planning is a fundamental and challenging activity in the management and execution of construction or engineering projects. It involves the choice of technology, the definition of work tasks, the estimation of the required resources and durations for individual tasks, and the identification of any interactions among the different work tasks. This workshop will build your planning skills to a new level, equipping you to expertly create and maintain sound, well-structured project plans and will give you the organisational tools for complex projects.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Attendees who want to do the work shop should come with laptops and scheduling software (MSP or Primavera etc) and MSExcel. It is aimed at those with some knowledge of project planning:

• Planners & Schedulers
• Project Manager
• Project Professionals
• Project Planning Engineers
• Senior Project Control
• Project team members from Members of
• Process Improvement Teams
• Administrators responsible for managing projects

This course identifies economic factors that significantly influence construction projects. The objective is to introduce participants to the application of various economic analysis techniques such as project feasibility studies, lifecycle cost analysis, estimating and cost planning, and cost control techniques that will facilitate making sound construction economic decisions. The candidates will be able to explain the application of microeconomics concepts to proj ect decisions. This course will be case study driven to demonstrate the principles discussed along the course.

This course identifies economic factors that are significantly influencing construction projects and how the aggregate of construction projects affect the economy. The objective of the course is to expose the candidates to the application of various economic analysis techniques such as market analysis, project feasibility studies, life cycle cost analysis, selection of the appropriate types and forms of construction contracts and the bidding process.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Perform construction economic planning & development
• Develop construction feasibility analysis to determine go/no go
• Analyze construction project bids and recommend selection
• Seek construction project finance for efficient implementation
• Simulate the investigation, preparation and completion of work assignments under resources constraints and with professional attitude

Steel is the most used construction material in the South Africa for industrial buildings, high-rise towers, bridges and other structures. It competes with reinforced concrete in the world because of its much favourable characteristics including strength, stiffness, ductility and toughness, erection rapidity, competitive cost and more. The speed for construction and its use for building temporary structure make it competitive than concrete.

We will be discussing the design of steel structures that has been widely based on the Allowable Stress Design. The petroleum industry’s interest to modify the structure in the on-shore facilities to carry more load or add more machines so the integrity management of change must be considered important. The composite section design and FRP will be presented in the training course. The pushover analysis will be discussed to define the probability of failure for industrial structure. All example will be specifically related to oil and gas projects for most oil and gas companies worldwide.

This training course will feature: 

• The codes and standard with technical practice in this field
• The new trend of integrity management system will be presented
• The design of steel structure under reciprocating and centrifugal machines
• The capability of review The engineering and pitfalls in construction
• The pushover structure analysis technique

Renovation of older structures to extend their useful life-span has become common place in the modern world, as the cost of replacement rises higher and higher. Before renovation can be effectively carried out the cause of the deterioration must be understood, so that the correct method of repair can be used.

A grasp of the mechanisms of deterioration will give candidates an insight into the best construction practices to prevent future deterioration from occurring, while selection of materials and construction is put in hand for new structures. Numerous case studies will be used to illustrate the theory components of the course and enable candidates to gain a firm grasp of the principles involved. The course will give the most common defects in concrete both new and old with a method for detection and diagnosis of the repair for each one. A repair method will also be suggested from the many proprietary repair materials available on the market. Use will be made of many photographs taken by the presenter during a long career in the design and investigation of reinforced concrete structures.

Who should attend?

• Structural Engineers
• Civil Structural Engineers
• Civil Engineers (Concrete)
• Construction Contractors
• Structural Design Engineers
• Building Inspectors
• Construction Managers
• Site Agents
• Project Managers
• Concrete Technicians /Technologists
• Architects
• QA/QC on site
• Concrete Foremen
• Civil Structural Consulting

The deterioration of concrete structures in the last few decades calls for effective methods for condition evaluation and maintenance. This has resulted in development of several non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques for monitoring civil infrastructures and building across the world. NDT methods have been used for more than three decades for monitoring concrete structures; now it has been recognized that NDT plays an important role in the condition monitoring of existing concrete structures. With this in mind Impact training consultants have put a two 2 day workshop that will basically focus on concrete structures design testing and analysis with particular focus on design testing, analysis and NDT methods that are known to be better to assess and evaluate the condition of RC structures practically.

NDT has been defined as comprising methods used to examine objects, materials, or systems without impairing their future usefulness, that is, inspect or measure without harm. NDT methods are now considered as powerful tools for evaluating existing concrete structures with regard to their strength and durability. NDT methods have been drawing more and more attention, in the sense of reliability and effectiveness.

Learning Objective

At the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to:

• Understand how concrete testing methods can be integrated into the safety Concepts of modern design methods.
• Develop and specify a QA/QC program for concrete testing for construction.
• Understand one-dimensional wave propagation theory as it pertains to impact events on Concrete structures and building
• Run a basic wave equation analysis concrete structural testing and analysis.
• Distinguish between commonly employed methods of static and other methods of testing Bearing capacity determination.
• Understand the principles of concrete measurements on slab and the possible choices of Sensors and processing equipment.
• Name major results obtained through concrete monitoring/capacity by Case Method