CUSTOM TRAINING

Construction Seminars NW LLC works with consultants, designers and other construction professionals to provide training and coaching for contractors, designers, developers and owners. Custom seminars and workshops are focused, directed and tailored to your specific needs. Our goal is to provide quality training - leaving out unnecessary and irrelevant materials. The common denominator for the Custom Training or classes is to help you improve the quality of the design and construction process while minimizing conflicts and disputes. We believe the most effective way to achieve this goal is by providing training and coaching workshops to Designers, Contractors, Developers, Owners and other professional in the Construction and Development Industries. Dispute Free construction and development projects are not projects without problems or conflicts – they are projects with effective tools to resolve problems and conflicts.

Although a typical Class or Custom Training is setup for 25 to 40 participants and is scheduled for a 3 to 4 hour times slot. At your request, custom training may be scheduled for a longer duration or setup as a series of smaller training sessions over a longer period of time. Costs for a typical Workshop vary from $1,800 to $3,200 (about $50 to $125 per person) - depending on the topic and your needs. We normally recommend training for all members of a company or organization to take full advantage of the materials and principles taught.


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Workshop Topics (Partial List - Other Topics are available):

Managing Disputes & Project Risk for Profit
Claims and Unpaid Change Orders - What you need to know about Scheduling
Dispute Resolution Without Conflict - Practical Tools for Recognizing Risk
Understanding Contracts and Killer Terms - Managing Change for Profit
Dealing with your Surety when a project goes bad
The different elements of Cost Recovery
Collecting damages from Delay & Disruption Claims

Scheduling Projects - Plan & Monitor Your Work (SureTrak & Project) - Overview
Scheduling Projects - Project Components & Overview - Critical Path Method (CPM)
Scheduling as a Tool - Defining a Project & Scheduling Parameters - Building a Schedule with SureTrak or Project - Schedule Examples with SureTrak & Project - Monitoring a Schedule
A Project Management Tool - Guidelines to Update and Monitor Your Schedule
Earned Value Analysis to Monitor Your Projects - Simple Indexes to Monitor Your Projects
Using a Schedule to Define and Quantify Delays, Disruptions and Changes

Scheduling Projects for Success (Applying Primavera or Project) - Detailed
Administering Schedules - Managing - Avoiding Scheduling Problems
Problem Examples Developing Schedules - Code, Task, Connect - Calculate
Calendaring - Constrain & Optimize Using Schedules - Targeting - Resourcing & Costing
Updating - Reporting & Graphing Analyzing Schedules - Problems & Pitfalls
Disputes - Claims & Litigation - Software

Development - A Dream Come True or a Long Term Nightmare?
Limiting Your Liability Do You Really Own Your Property? The 7 Deadly Sins of Development Opportunities for Developing Distressed Properties Improving Raw Land for Residential & Commercial Use Understand & Measure Development Risk Design Build Options for Commercial Development Asset Protection & Tax Reduction for Development

Asset Protection - Avoiding Risk, Reducing Liability, Insurance & Protection Alternatives
The Forgotten Bid Item- Time, Risk and Quality Risks Management Project Risks Management Self Insurance & Other Risk Management Options Reducing Employment Risks With Behavioral Screening How to Preserve your Company's wealth Ways to Minimize the Capital Gains Tax Bite Fundamentals and Highlights of Estate Planning Loss Control Options- Control Your Claims
Bullet Proof Your Corporation & Estate - Use of Living Trusts- Maximize Your Business Profits
Secrets of Using a Corporation and LLC’s - Small Business Survival Guide & Compliance

Design Build – The Future Direction of Construction
Overview of The Design Build Process - Benefits of Design-Build - Potential problems
Design, Scheduling, Permitting and Construction Process Examples
Setting up the Right Program to Avoid Disputes and Workable Conflict Resolution
The Designers Perspective - The Contractors Perspective - The Owners Perspective

Understanding the Formal Partnering Process
The Partnering Process - focus on goals and results
Improving the quality of the design and construction productivity
Requirements and details of communications with all parties
Understanding the conflict resolution process
Resolution of inconsistencies between the design and construction processes
Resolving conflicts in light of the goals and purpose of the project