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Courses currently available:
- Construction Cost Control for Site Managers
- Construction Materials Buying Techniques
- Purchasing Techniques
- Construction Waste Controls
- Construction Cost Control & Waste Management
- Construction Purchasing Systems
- Construction Waste Management
- Construction Buying Techniques
- Introduction to Construction Buying
- Preventing & Reducing Construction Waste Costs - (Evening Course)
- Purchasing Management & Construction Waste Controls for the Irish Construction Industry
- Construction Waste Controls
- How Builders Buy
- Negotiation Skills for Construction Companies
For information on training course please contact Donnelly CCT: Contact Details
Construction Cost Control for Site Managers
Who Should Attend?
Company Owners, Directors, Forepersons, Site Staff, Site Engineers, Quantity Surveyors and Site Managers with a specific role for managing materials and monitoring waste on site.
The Programme:
A one day training programme: 9.15am - 4.45PM
The Course Content Includes:
- Understanding the implications for panic buying of materials, the economic consequences of overspending on materials and the eventual added cost of completing the building contract.
- Basic forms and records to manage materials on site.
- Preventing overstocking of materials on site.
- Dealing with suppliers - price, quality and timeliness of supply.
- Setting up a manageable storage system for materials.
- Understanding the value of materials-product cost details.
- Analysing the real cost of habitually collecting materials.
- Effect on programme and production of material stockouts.
- Introducing the contract materials listing-materials schedule.
- Methods for inward checking of materials on to your site.
- Monitoring usage of materials on site-minimising waste.
- Compare usage of materials with planned quantity to establish waste.
The course will use questionnaires to establish key indicators:
- How well organised are irish construction sites?
- What are the key problems raised by site management?
- Delegates materials product technical knowledge?
- Competancy at completing a materials requisition?
- Normal planning time for upcoming materials requirements?
- Delegates knowledge of indirect material costs/overheads.
- Impact of site staff overseeing 10% or more of materials buying.
- Impact of excessive hire of plant & equipment.
- Impact of excessive collection of materials.
- Delegates understanding of waste related issues.
- A final end of course summary will highlight the areas needing further attention and will also put a monetary cost on the problem areas.
Every 4% saved on the materials and plant hire element of a construction project could add 100% to anticipated profits.
Construction Materials Buying Techniques
Companies wishing to pinpoint areas to REDUCE costs will benefit from this one-day training.
All in attendance will receive dozens of useful BUYING tips to help their company to maximise its potential in a difficult business situation such as the current recession.
Key topics:
- Developing a profitable approach to your Purchasing System.
- Reduce construction waste through good buying practices.
- Cost control of Materials, Construction Efficiency, Plant hire.
- Up-skill construction staff on Buying and Computer Techniques.
- Training delegates about new suppliers, materials and material terminology / description.
- Computer System to manage construction suppliers, prices , plant and sub-contractors.
- Provision of forms and records to set up a Purchasing System.
- New products and suppliers in Renewable Energy Sector.
- Find out how to generate construction profits in difficult times.
- PLUS-Nationwide-on your premises-Complimentary Computer Systems Assessment for all companies who attend.
Purchasing Techniques
Techniques to enable Buyers in builders offices to buy construction materials in a more organised and competitive manner.
Key topics:
- Do you have a purchasing role within your company?
- Could your construction materials buying & plant hire system do with a review?
- Are you interested in sharpening your buying & negotiation skills?
- Are you interested in best practice buying in the Construction sector?
- Do you have a suitable computer system with integrated Purchasing systems?
- Do you encounter difficulties in co-ordinating requisitions from sites?
- Is there too much of a fire fighting service rather than a planned service for materials buying?
- Special tuition in applications for computer systems included in your training.
- If some of the above are applicable then this course is for you or for a site based colleague who has responsibility for buying.
- Over 7000 construction professionals have previously attended this course.
- Ideal for all sectors of construction - Housebuilders / Main Contractors / Sub-Contractors / Civil.
Construction Waste Controls
If your company consider construction waste a difficult area to pinpoint losses or and spends several thousand euros on waste skip charges, this special John Donnelly presentation will give you many options to reduce such charges including cost effective guidelines and case studies from Irish sites.
Key topics:
- Preventing Construction Waste
- Waste = Profit erosion or Profit potential - Your choice
- How to increase construction profits by 11.5% without spending a cent!
- Developing a culture change in Construction waste management.
- Economic issues affecting contractors.
- Planning to avoid waste.
- Managing waste.
- Competitive threat of waste.
- Waste avoidance and reduction techniques.
- Most wasted materials on Irish construction sites.
- Commercial best practice to share waste costs.
- Suppliers role in waste prevention.
- Operational practice on site.
- Waste disposal.
- Future possibilities.
Construction Cost Control & Waste Management
Suitable for Construction Company Owners, Site and Project Managers, Site Forepersons & Material and Plant Managers. The course will deal with the economic issues of cost control and effective construction waste management controls. There will be a bottom line figure to offer potential financial benefit to all participating companies.
Key topics:
- Your site could be overspending on materials and plant hire by a minimum of 15% - find out the various options available to reduce this cost.
- Excess hiring of plant and equipment may cost your company dearly - you can manage this problem through better awareness.
- Production on site can be improved by planning your material and plant requirements - various techniques to bring about improvement.
- Collecting building materials - how do your sites compare? Benchmark with best practice. Avoid the Builders Providers queue!
- Materials control on site - Materials accountability Waste management- Find out how other contractors reduced waste related costs by over 40%.
- Maximising on additional works - Variations/Extras/Contra-charging.
- Tabulate your potential benefits with the final summary of cost reduction attainable.
- This course will produce an IMMEDIATE payback.
- Over EUR90 Million potential benefits derived by builders who have attended this course.
Construction Purchasing Systems
Who Should Attend?
Suitable for Construction Company Buyers, Purchasing Staff, Company Owners who look after Buying, Site and Project Managers who may have responsibility for Buying materials and hiring plant, Site Forepersons & Material and Plant Managers.
The Programme:
- The course will deal with Purchasing systems and controls which will enable companies to apply structure to a very important area of their business.
- Course delegates will receive a full training pack, forms, records, computer sytems and will conduct several training workshop scenarios to help improve their understanding of the key issues of the course. There will be a bottom line figure to offer potential financial benefit to all participating companies.
- How Builders Buy
- Techniques to enable builders to buy construction materials in a more organised and competitive manner.
- Do you have a purchasing role within your company?
- Could your construction materials buying system do with a review?
- Are you interested in sharpening your buying skills?
- How are your NEGOTIATING skills?
- Are you interested in best practice buying in the €Multi Billion Construction sector?
- If so, this course is for you or for a site based colleague who has responsibility for buying.
- Ideal for all sectors of construction-Housebuilders/Main Contractors/Sub-Contractors/Civil.
- Course will also deal with suitable computer systems for Buying, Hiring, SubContractors To
Construction Waste Management
Who Should Attend?
Suitable for Construction Company Owners, Site and Project Managers, Site Forepersons & Material and Plant Managers.
The Programme:
- The course will deal with the economic issues of cost control and effective construction waste management controls. There will be a bottom line figure to offer potential financial benefit to all participating companies.
- Your site could be overspending on materials and plant hire by a minimum of 15%- find out the various options available to reduce this cost.
- Excess hiring of plant and equipment may cost your company dearly- you can manage this problem through better awareness.
- Production on site can be improved by planning your material and plant requirements - various techniques to bring about improvement.
- Collecting building materials- how do your sites compare? -Benchmark with best practice. Avoid the Builders Providers queue!
- Materials control on site -Materials accountability Waste management- Find out how other contractors reduced waste related costs by over 40%.
- Maximising on additional works-Variations/Extras/Contra-charging.
- Tabulate your potential benefits with the final summary of cost reduction attainable.
- Over &euro100 Million potential benefits derived by builders who have attended this course.
- Over 7000 construction professionals have already attended the course-now is the best time to find out how your company can minimise costs in a difficult trading climate.
Construction Buying Techniques
Ireland's leading and most comprehensive construction industry training course offering construction staff the foundation to Construction Management Systems, Negotiation skills, Supplier management techniques, Procedures to measure effectiveness of construction companies, Forms and Records for Buyers, and Construction Waste Prevention Controls and finally Computerising the construction firm - all applicable to the multi billion euro Irish Construction Industry.
2013 is a year to train to be stronger and better prepared for the competitive shape of the emerging ultra competitive Irish Construction sector.
A notable comment from a recent delegate - "The course was a bottomless pit of good information"
Hopefully you and your company will also share those sentiments after your day at our course.
Who Should Attend?
For Buyers, Quantity Surveyors and construction staff who negotiate and buy for any construction company & site managers in your company with a responsibility to buy materials.
The Programme:
Registration and Coffee: 9.00am - Course Commences 9.15am and Closes at 4.30pm
- Problems encountered by buying staff in construction companies.
- Forms and records - Requisitions - Timing of requisitions - Purchase orders.
- Issuing enquiry's to suppliers - Building materials suppliers-Irish and foreign.
- Quote comparisons - Benefits of computers in Purchasing. Negotiating skills.
- Know your materials - Purchasing terminology A-Z - Material prices 2013.
- Benefits of centralised purchasing & why purchasing by untrained staff can be expensive!
- Minimising Your Construction Waste Costs
- Case studies where Irish companies succeeded in saving millions on waste.
- Reduce materials spending by site based staff and improve profits by 25%.
- Site management staff with responsibility for waste would also benefit from this training.
- Useful for construction companies considering the implementation of a Construction Waste Plan.
Introduction to Construction Buying
Training course offering construction staff the foundation to Construction Management Systems, Negotiation skills, Supplier management techniques, Procedures to measure effectiveness of construction companies, Forms and Records for Buyers, Site Managers course on effective site cost control, and Construction Waste Prevention Controls and finally Computerising the construction firm - all applicable to the multi billion euro Irish Construction Industry.
Who Should Attend?
For Buyers who require an introductory course on Buying for a construction company & site staff in your company who buy materials.
The Programme:
Registration and Coffee - 09.00am
- Problems encountered by buying staff in construction companies.
- The rights of purchasing Interdepartmental relationship of purchasing.
- Forms and records -Requisitions - Timing of requisitions - Purchase orders
- Details often excluded in error from requisitions-and how to deal with them.
- Issuing enquiries to suppliers - Know your suppliers - Building materials suppliers-Irish and foreign.
- Quote comparisons - Benefits of computers in Purchasing.
- Know your materials - Purchasing terminology A-Z
- Materials schedule - List of building materials to be purchased.
- Benefits of centralised purchasing. Why site purchasing - can be expensive!
- Site setup - Indirect materials and the impact on profits.
- Updates to materials prices.
- International purchasing-Internet sources.
Preventing & Reducing Construction Waste Costs - (Evening Course)
- Case studies where Irish companies SUCCEEDED in saving millions on waste.
- Construction Cost Control.
- Reduce materials spending by site based staff and improve profits by 25%.
Who Should Attend?
- Company Directors, Purchasers/Buyers & Quantity Surveyors from the construction sector.
- Office administrators, cost controllers, Site management staff with responsibility for purchasing and hiring equipment would also benefit from this training.
- Construction companies considering the implementation of a Construction Waste Plan.
- Companies interested in future I.T concepts for Construction Industry-Purchasing, Quantity Surveying, Sub-Contracting, Plant Management, Asset Management all link-able to your existing financial control package.
The Programme:
Registration and Coffee - 5.00pm, Course 5.15pm - 7:30pm
Purchasing Management & Construction Waste Controls for the Irish Construction Industry
Training course offering construction staff the foundations to Construction Management Systems and Controls applicable to the multi billion euro Irish Construction Industry where some contractors spend up to 35% of the company turnover on the buying of materials & services-often without stringent Purchasing Controls- a direct cost to profitability and where material WASTE often eats up large amounts of cost and potential profit.
The course will deal with proven systems and controls. Delegates will gain a full appreciation of the importance of these issues to enable them to consider the introduction of controls into the construction management to reduce costs and increase profits by up to 70%.
Guide prices for a wide range of building materials will be included in the course. Best practice guide notes will be issued for Purchasing and Waste controls.
Who Should Attend?
Construction staff, Buyers, Quantity Surveyors from all construction companies including house and apartment builders, main contractors - building and civil engineering and those responsible for buying in sub-contractors.
The Programme:
09.00am - Registration and Coffee
- Purchasing Systems for Construction Companies.
- Duties functions and responsibilities of purchasing staff. Problems faced by construction buyers.
- Forms, records and procedures to help systemise the BUYING in your firm.
- Placing purchase orders - Who has the authority to place orders?
- Do you have a REQUISITION system? - Benefits of the systems approach to purchasing.
- Documentation trail - Tracing the transactions of construction buying process.
- Improving your product knowledge. Categorising construction materials.
- Sourcing systems including internet. Methods to quantify construction materials.
- Price guides for building materials.
- Using the Materials Schedule to maximuse your BUYING POWER in the market place.
- Application of computers to control purchasing. Full details about computer system for Buyers.
- Monitoring site based buying. Systems to limit site spending and improve profits.
12.30pm - Lunch is included
- Construction Purchasing & Waste Management.
- The part of the course will deal with the economic issues of effective construction waste management controls. Key issues include.
- Your site could be overspending on materials and plant hire by a minimum of 15% - and also wasting over 10% of materials.
- Excess hiring of plant and equipment may cost your company dearly - Production on site can be improved by planning your material and plant requirements - techniques to bring about improvement. Managing Plant & Equipment.
- Collecting building materials - how do your sites compare? - Benchmark with best practice. Avoid the Builders Providers queue!
- Materials control on site - Materials accountability Waste management - Reduce waste related costs by over 40%.
- Course closes circa 4.15pm approx.
Construction Waste Controls
If your company spends several thousand euros on waste skip charges this course will give you many options to reduce such charges including cost effective guidelines and case studies from Irish sites.
Key topics:
- Economic issues affecting contractors.
- Planning to avoid waste.
- Waste audit trail.
- Competitive threat of excess waste.
- Target setting- performance incentives.
- Causes of waste.
- Waste avoidance and reduction techniques.
- Waste economics.
- The argument for waste separation on site during construction.
- Commercial best practice to share waste costs.
- Order / Subcontract package placements and waste.
- Packaging waste - know your rights.
- Getting maximum value for your materials.
- Recycling construction waste.
- Suppliers role in waste prevention.
- Operational practice on site.
- Accountability for waste costs-Main contractor and Sub Contractor.
- Cost of Waste disposal.
- Dealing with waste disposal companies - Partnering and recycling.
- Future possibilities.
- Benchmarking all sites within the company.
- Developing a waste management plan (economic).
How Builders Buy
Techniques to enable builders to buy construction materials in a more organised and competitive manner.
Key topics:
- Do you have a purchasing role within your company?
- Could your construction materials buying system do with a review?
- Are you interested in sharpening your buying skills?
- Are you interested in best practice buying in the multi billion euro construction sector?
- If so, this course is for you or for a site based colleague who has responsibility for buying.
- Ideal for all sectors of construction-Housebuilders/Main Contractors/Sub-Contractors/Civil.
Negotiation Skills for Construction Companies
Suitable for Buyers and Quantity Surveyors and any of the Construction Team who need to negotiate with suppliers / subcontractors.
Key topics:
- Understanding Construction Industry Negotiation.
- Planning negotiation for construction purchases and subcontracts.
- Typical commercial negotiating situations for construction industry.
- Problems during negotiation and how to overcome them.
- Negotiable issues for construction companies.
- Buyers and QS's role in negotiation.
- Watching out for negotiation gamesmanship.
- Concluding the negotiation successfully.
