SUPERVISORY TRAINING PROGRAM
UNIT 5: IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY & MANAGING PRODUCT COSTS
The perfect training for experienced superintendents, project engineers, project managers, contract administrators, safety officers and anyone who is interested in improving their supervisory skills!
The Associated General Contractors of America’s Supervisory Training Program (STP) is a construction-specific training curriculum developed, updated and field-tested by and for contractors. This 6-unit certification program focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to be an effective front-line manager of people, schedules, equipment and materials.
Each seminar is offered in a two day format on Friday and Saturday.
UNIT 5 INFORMATION:
Supervisory Training Program Unit 5 teaches how project estimates are compiled, how to compare actual project costs with those estimated and how to control costs to meet the estimate.
This course also details how productivity is measured, how the supervisor plays a major role in increasing jobsite productivity and how a small increase in productivity can have a significant impact on the time and cost of a project.
- Construction estimates
- Who controls project costs
- Reporting and analyzing actual costs
- Planning for cost control
- Cost control strategies
- Labor cost variances
- Working with project partners
- Managing risk and loss potentials
- Cost control strategies
- Post-project evaluations
- Benchmarking construction productivity
- Improving productivity through pre-planning
- New skills for effective supervision
- Personnel management
- Equipment management for productivity improvement
- Jobsite productivity, planning and scheduling
- Quantifying lost labor productivity
- Record keeping, control, changes, and defect analysis
View the other training units of the SUPERVISORY TRAINING PROGRAM.
ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS (AGC)
The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) is the leading association for the construction industry.
AGC represents more than 27,000 firms, including over 6,500 of America’s leading general contractors, and over 9,000 specialty-contracting firms. More than 10,500 service providers and suppliers are also associated with AGC, all through a nationwide network of chapters.
