Agile Construction Workshops

Agile Construction

Multiple dates available -Please check workshop listings

Location: All Cascade Chapter Sponsored Workshops will be held at the Tulalip Resort please check Workshop listings for locations if attending other Sponsored NECA Chapter Workshops

Agile Construction Training for the Electrical Industry The new normal demands more than business as usual. This training is about more than just changing your business, it's about transforming the industry in the process. Registration Form (TB) or Register Online: http://j.mp/agiletraining
	What is Agile Construction? Agile Construction is a very fluid work environment, in a state of constant change, both planned and unplanned. Agile Construction allows the contractor to rapidly adapt to job site changes in order to complete each project both profitably and efficiently. The agility (responsiveness) of the contractor at the job site will improve the profits. Who Should Attend the Training? Owners, Executive Managers, Project Managers, Estimators, Foreman, and high level field supervisors to learn hot to be more profitable, while increasing hit-ratios with more accurate job estimates. This program is intended for anyone with any influence on the job site or inside the company. This program is about buy-in from the top-down and bottom-up.
How Many Sessions are there? There are four different training programs, each a day long. The classes include: Job Productivity Assurance and Control (JPAC) Short Interval Scheduling (SIS) Pre-Fabrication Vendor Partnership <=====JUNE 5th!!!
Principles Of Job Productivity Assurance and Control (JPAC) Job productivity has historically been measured from the accounting perspective. This method of measurement has alienated the labor; as a result the outcome is data that is not useful. This course will teach the principle, exercised successfully by other industries, of measuring productivity from the operator's point of view. The participant will learn how to establish a useful productivity measuring method.
Implementation of Short Interval Scheduling (SIS) Labor management is the highest risk in Contracting. Most of the issues that labor faces in their daily work are hidden from management. With 3-day scheduling all these issues become visible and project management and management of the company can improve on them to improve job productivity. The participants will learn hands-on, the simple methods and tools that can be used to schedule their jobs, and how to identify the obstacles and reduce labor waste which can improve job productivity by better than 30%. Each of the following items will be introduced, explained, and applied within the course to allow the participants to tie their in-course progress to the learning objectives: Impact of scheduling on job productivity; Tracking forms for 3-day schedule, and hands on creation of tracking forms; Charting of the date; and Analysis and interpretation of the charts.
Pre-Fabrication: A Tool for Maximizing Profitability This workshop is designed to provide an understanding of how to design and implement a pre-fabrication process as part of an overall strategy to develop an Optimal Electrical Construction Business Model. As the jobs get larger, only contractors that can improve productivity through better management of time cost and quality will survive. Pre-fabrication, along with vendor partnership and job productivity tracking, are key tools for optimizing the delivery time, cost and quality of large jobs. This workshop addresses the key steps in effectively implementing prefabrication as an integral part of the productivity management system by providing participants with MCA's latest research on construction productivity and helping them understand how to apply the principles to bring dramatic improvements in profitability to their company. Topics include: Research on productivity in electrical construction; Factors for optimizing labor productivity; Pre-fabrication: What it is and what it is not; Pre-planning and layout for large projects; Implementation planning; and Project Management and Organizational Principles.
Vendor Partnership in Electrical Contracting Design This intensive working session is designed to establish the basis for the partnership between the electrical contractor and their distributor partner. The vendor partnership approach has demonstrated significant cost savings for both partners when they understand each other's issues and work together to find solutions. Up to now, because of the typical adversarial relationships, the hidden costs and the other affects of direct purchasing have not been clearly defined. By reducing the costs associated with procurement, electrical contractors and their distributor partners will be able to outperform their competition and dramatically increase profits. Topics include: Operational models for contractors and distributors; procurement cost drivers; in-depth understanding of the interfaces in the procurement process; and issue resolution and procurement process measurement.
Upcoming Dates & Locations of Trainings: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - Course: Vendor Management - sponsored by the Cascade Chapter, NECA at Tulalip Casino & Resort Thursday, June 7, 2012 - Course: Job Productivity Assurance & Controls, sponsored by the Puget Sound Chapter, NECA at Puget Sound Electrical JATC - Renton, WA

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