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Training Class Schedules for 2009

Project Controls Training Program
The Turnaround Management Company has partnered with Alvin Community College to provide more convenient delivery of our Project Controls Training Program that covers Planning, Scheduling, Cost Engineering and related software tools, such as Primavera™, Track™ and Project Cost Forecasting™. 

The program uses the refining and petrochemical processing industry as the backdrop for teaching the disciplines of Project Controls as they relate to turnaround, maintenance and capital projects.  The program will add courses throughout the year. Each course includes manuals and handout materials. Currently available courses are listed below.


The Fundamentals of Turnaround Management (40 hours), $1495
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FTM-July-Day 7/6-7/10 MTWThF 8a-5p TTMC Campus
FTM-Oct-Day 10/5-10/9 MTWThF 8a-5p TTMC Campus

The Fundamentals of Cost Engineering (24 hours), $1495
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FCE-Aug-Day 8/10-8/12 MTW 8a-5p TTMC Campus
FCE-Sep-Day 9/8-9/10 MTW 8a-5p TTMC Campus

Basic Project Scheduling Using Primavera (40 hours), $1995
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PB-Jul-Day 7/13-7/17 MTWThF 8a-5p TTMC Campus
PB-Jul-Night 7/27/8/26 MW 5p-9p TTMC Campus
PB-Aug-Day 8/17-8/21 MTWThF 8a-5p TTMC Campus
PB-Sep-Day 9/14-9/18 MTWThF 8a-5p TTMC Campus
PB-Oct-Day 10/19-10/23 MTWThF 8a-5p TTMC Campus
PB-Nov-Day 11/9-11/13 MTWThF 8a-5p TTMC Campus

  


 

Course Descriptions

The Fundamentals of Turnaround Management (40 hours), $1495:  This course familiarizes participants with project management principles as they apply to the planning, scheduling and execution of turnarounds. Discussion and several hands-on exercises will be utilized to reinforce the best-practices, concepts and techniques presented in this course, including:
•    Learn the five phases of the turnaround life cycle
•    Understand the difference between job planning vs. strategic planning
•    Build historical job files, detailed job plans and work scope packages
•    Understand the roles and responsibilities of a planner, scheduler and cost engineer
•    Develop a turnaround worklist using a Work Breakdown Structure
•    Learn to create logic diagrams from detailed job plans
•    Understand float calculations (forward & backward pass)
•    Identify and manage the critical path
•    Learn activity-based estimating, costing fundamentals and develop detailed turnaround budgets
•    Learn change management fundamentals
•    Learn real time forecasting for cost and schedule
•    Understand why turnarounds fail
•    Recognize the different types of contracts, when and how to use them

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The Fundamentals of Cost Engineering (24 hours), $1495:  This course familiarizes participants with cost engineering principles, processes and techniques as they apply to turnarounds. Discussion and several hands-on exercises will be utilized to reinforce the knowledge and skills learned in this class, including:
•    Understand the different types of estimates and their level of accuracy
•    Develop budget, factored, and definitive estimates
•    Create Work Breakdown Structure / Cost Breakdown Structure that assures alignment with both        schedule and accounting structures for quantitative analysis
•    Review which components are needed for developing an estimate
•    Understand the “Three E” concept - the estimate, the earned, and the expended - and how they          interrelate with one another to impact forecasting
•    Learn how to calculate “Earned Value” and understand how it affects forecasting
•    Understand how to properly collect expended costs and from whom
•    Learn what factors affect forecasting cost at completion
•    Be able to forecast cost at completion

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Basic Project Scheduling Using Primavera (40 hours), $1995:  This course familiarizes participants with Primavera Project Manager (P6), as it applies to turnaround methods of planning and scheduling. The class will construct a turnaround schedule, utilizing data from an actual turnaround work list.  The course simulates an actual turnaround schedule cycle, from planning and set-up through mechanical completion. Using the software, each student will engage in hands-on exercises to reinforce the applications and techniques presented in this course, including:
•    Create project calendars
•    Develop project layouts
•    Add activities and codes
•    Add reference documents, spreadsheets, photographs to project or activity
•    Develop logic and constraints
•    Develop production reports
•    Create project level work breakdown structure
•    Create Gantt chart and network logic views
•    Update and progress activities and publish next shift schedule

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