Sadly, proper detailed planning is becoming a lost art in the construction industry. This course aims to reverse that trend by providing crew leaders with a strong model that will improve their crews' (and by extension their companies') performance. The course focuses on providing a strong foundational knowledge of task planning that can be applied to any work and is equally applicable to the supervisors of crews for trade and general contractors

What will attendees learn? Attendees will strengthen their skill (and value to their companies) by gaining a strong foundation in practical task planning. Working with hands-on, practical exercises, they work through the various elements needed to put together a complete activity plan for their crew. Course topics include calculating manpower needs, determining the materials and equipment required, building quality and safety into the plan and much more!

By the end of the course, they will be able to: 

• Identify the benefits of planning and why we do it 

• Understand what planning is, who should do it, what we should plan and when 

• Follow the Planning Cycle of Plan, Do, Check, Act 

• Know where to gather the information needed to put together a solid plan 

Plan crew task activities including: 

• Safety considerations o Quality controls 

• Manpower needs 

• Material needs 

• Equipment needs 

• Working with other trades 

• Build a 2 week lookahead schedule 

• Create daily crew work plans 

• Monitor and correct/ update the plan if it goes off track 

• Communicate the plan to others 

• Using templates provided, develop their own task plans, 2-week lookaheads and daily crew plans 

• Gather useful historical information to improve their future planning

Format - Two 4-hour on-line (Zoom) sessions

Who should take this course? Crew leaders of all levels of experience and all trades and serves as a good back-to-basics refresher for superintendents

Successful completion of this course is worth 2 Gold Seals Credit.

By registering for this or any HHCA educational opportunity the attendee agrees to abide by the Release of Liability and Waiver of Claims policy.