Course Description:

During construction, specifics are everything and failure to communicate specifically could create massive change orders, cost overruns and schedule delays, which can negatively impact your bottom line.

This four-hour virtual instructor-led workshop will help you to understand your construction specifications, and in turn, improve the success rate of your project. It will cover the fundamentals of interpreting construction specifications and deal with the basics of reading and interpreting both the general and technical specifications.

Course Topics:

• Recognize the role of the project manual in relationship to the bidding documents, construction contract documents, general requirements and the technical specifications
• Recognize the role of master format in construction specifications
• Recognize the difference between a prescriptive specification and a performance specification

Who should attend?

Anyone who is new to using construction specifications. This course is for owners, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.

Workshop date & time:

• Tuesday, August 1^st, 2023
  
• 7:00am – 11:00am PT

Technical Requirements

Click here to review the technical requirements necessary to attend this workshop.

Credit: the Construction Specifications 101 and the Construction Drawings 101 taken together are 1 Gold Seal Credit

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Instructor:

Phil Perry of Perry Educational Services Ltd has 30 plus years in the Construction Industry, most of which was Project Managing Industrial Projects for General Contractors. He has been teaching Post-Secondary Construction Management Courses for the last twelve years for organizations such as the Edmonton Construction Association, Calgary Construction Association, Winnipeg Construction Association, Ontario Roadbuilders Association, Newfoundland and Labrador Construction Association, University of Alberta Faculty of Extension, and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He has been facilitating Better SuperVision programs since 2009.  He has facilitated over 350 courses and over 2500 students over the last four years. In his spare time, Phil is a Master Course Facilitator for a National Sports Organization and chaired their National Coaching/Instructional Program for four years. He was the recipient of the 2018 IG Wealth Management Community National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) Coach Developer Award.

Cancellation

Fees will be collected at the time of registration. Should it be necessary to cancel your attendance please contact ECABC at any time up to 4 weeks prior to the course start date for a full refund. A cancellation from 2 weeks to 4 weeks will result in a 50% refund. There will be no refund for cancellations less than 10 business days prior to the scheduled start date. Participant substitutions may be made up to 2 days before the course start date, at no additional fee.

If the course needs to be to be postponed or cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, ECABC will refund the registration fee or, if possible, the attendee may choose to move to an identical session in the future.