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AGC Education Foundation aims to serve as the education clearinghouse for the construction industry in Washington, so that we can all receive training and education about careers, best practices and legal requirements in our business. Count on your AGC Education Foundation to help you at every stage of learning in your construction career.
MISSION: To develop and promote construction careers through quality education and training.
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The skills and concepts covered in the STP courses are designed for field supervisors, journeymen who aspire to become field supervisors and others who work with field supervisors...anyone who goes to the job site with information that can affect the bottom line.
Every STP course is activity based: discussions, case histories, problems, and exercises. Lectures are used to introduce and review ideas and skills covered in the activities. Students in an STP course draw upon their field experience and learn by interaction with others from all areas of the construction industry.
STP UNIT S: CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR
An overview of the Supervisor's role.
• Leadership
• Motivation
• Problem solving
• Decision-making
• Communication
• Cost awareness
• Planning and scheduling
• Production control
• Accident prevention and loss control
• Contract documents
STP UNIT HH: HEAVY HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR
This class is similar to STPS, but with a heavy highway emphasis, designed for current and future superintendents and foremen, project managers, office managers, supervisors who work for subs.
• The Supervisor's role
• Leadership
• Motivation
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Communication
• Cost awareness
• Planning and scheduling
• Production control
• Accident prevention and loss control
• Contract documents
STP UNIT 1: LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATION
• The dollar and sense of people in construction
• The role of the construction supervisor
• Helping people perform better
• Motivation
• Leading others
• You get what you expect
• Positive feedback
• Training and motivating crew members
• Teams and team building
• Leadership skill in action
STP UNIT 2: ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
• What is communication?
• Getting your point across
• Written communication
• Helping other people communicate with you
• Active listening
• Understanding and obtaining commitment
• Getting your point across with difficult people
• Communicating with all organizational levels
• Communicating with groups
STP 3: PROBLEM SOLVING
• Problem prevention and anticipation
• Identifying problems
• Strategies for solving scheduling and technical problems
• Strategies for solving human performance problems
• Creative problem solving
• Barriers to developing creative solutions
• Establishing a problem solving atmosphere
• Developing follow-up systems
• Changing your mind
STP 4: CONTRACT DOCUMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION LAW
• Creating a positive environment
• Contractual relationships
• Contract forms and documents
• Managing general conditions
• Time impacts
• Negotiation of resolution
• Changes
• Different site conditions
STP 5: PLANNING AND SCHEDULING
• Preparing the project plan
• Communicating the plan
• The critical path
• Computer use in scheduling
• Using the schedule on the jobsite
• Updating the construction schedule
• The schedule as documentation
• Planning and scheduling as a tool
STP 6: COST AWARENESS AND PRODUCTION CONTROL
• The cost control cycle
• The estimate
• The estimate breakdown
• Work and cost analysis
• Short interval production scheduling (SIPS)
• Cost control
• Reporting and cost comparison
• Production control
• Project debriefing and evaluation
STP UNIT 7: ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND LOSS CONTROL
• The high price of accidents
• Safety communications and motivation
• Documentation and inventories
• Using reference material and advisory sources
• Project security and traffic control
• Using the project schedule to prevent losses
• Selecting methods and equipment to prevent losses
• Assignment of responsibility and equipment maintenance
• Common construction hazards
• Government regulations and inspections
STP 8: MANAGING THE PROJECT: THE SUPERVISOR'S ROLE
• Introduction to Project Management
• Pre-construction planning: Getting started
• Pre-construction planning: Developing the project
• Pre-construction planning: Planning for production
• Pre-construction planning: Planning for project layout
• In the field: Starting up the project
• In the field: Cost and risk control
• In the field: Subcontractor management
• In the field: Purchasing expediting and receiving
• In the field: Project completion and closeout
STP UNIT 9: PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT
• Organizing the project for productivity improvement
• The impact of planning and scheduling on productivity improvement
• Challenging the work process
• Work improvement analysis: basic models
• Managing a project as a company rather than as a job
• Personnel management and productivity
• Communication and record keeping
• Work improvement analysis: quantitative methods
• The Impact of environmental factors: a worker's ability to do work
• Implementing and monitoring a productivity program
STP UNIT 10: GENERAL AND SPECIALTY CONTRACTOR DYNAMICS
• Focuses on helping general and specialty contractor supervisors work together to ensure successful project completion
• Construction systems
• Contractual relationships
• Qualifying and selecting specialty contractors
• Communication
• Plans and specifications
• Site mobilization
• Time management
• Productivity improvement
• Project closeout
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