Construction Planning & Scheduling Certificate Program

Description

Participants will learn critical planning and scheduling concepts, methods, and skills. This is a 4-unit 12-hour program, delivered in 4 sessions lasting 3 hours a piece. Enhance your resume by earning your Construction Planning & Scheduling Certificate.

Target Audience: Anyone in construction on a project team or involved with planning or schedules. 

Participants who complete the 4-units receive a digital credential, certificate, and hard hat sticker.

UNIT 3 – Predictable Work Flow, September 19, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm PT | 8:00 am - 11:00 am HST

Build a reliable scheduling process using the Last Planner® System

Based on Lean Construction principles, The Last Planner® System (LPS) is becoming more widely used in the construction industry. It was developed to help project teams meet their schedule milestones and improve productivity by making work predictable.

AGC of America recognizes the Planning and Scheduling Series as qualifying for continuing education hours toward the renewal of AGC’s Certificate of Management-Lean Construction (CM-Lean). Each hour of educational content is equal to 1 hour of CE credit. Attendees may earn up to 12.0 hours of CE credit by attending the entire virtual series.

About the Instructors

David MacKay, Lean Construction Planner & Consultant  (Milestone Lean Consulting)

David MacKay is the founder of Milestone Lean Consulting. He helps teams and organizations put Lean thinking to work to design and build better, faster, and cheaper. David MacKay has over 30 years of hands-on experience working on a wide range of projects. With a strong background in planning and scheduling, David supports all aspects of the Last Planner System® from coaching a single project to organization-wide implementation. He provides training and support to organizations on their lean journey, including transformation plans, basic Lean training, Value Stream Management, 5S, Continuous Improvement, and Lean Problem Solving. He is an approved AGC Lean Construction Education Program facilitator, Lean Construction Institute trainer, frequent trainer and presenter at LCI Congress, and has served several years on the Los Angeles/Orange County LCI CoP core team.

Worked on a wide variety of projects, including power generation, materials handling, process, petro-chemical, theme parks including Disney’s California Adventure and Universal Studios Hollywood, student housing, research, and laboratories, medical, airports, conference centers, museums, parking, hotels, condominium towers, apartments, senior housing, historical renovations, sports facilities, schools, and others. These have included a variety of delivery methods including a substantial number of design-build projects.