Estimating Project Management and Operations
12 of 12 modules published. Each module is four lessons, a question bank and a practical task.
4 lessons · about 55 min
Project lifecycle and contract documents
The steps of a flashing job and who signs with whom, what counts as a contract document and what outranks what, how submittals, payments and notices are timed, and how to read a bid set and keep a record that holds up.
- Project lifecycle and contract documents: principles and terminology
- Project lifecycle and contract documents: materials, standards and design constraints
- Project lifecycle and contract documents: methods and worked application
- Project lifecycle and contract documents: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 50 min
Scope identification, inclusions and exclusions
What a scope is, where a flashing scope is written across drawings and specification sections, an eight-step review that records what was not found, and how to write and check inclusions, exclusions and clarifications.
- Scope identification, inclusions and exclusions: principles and terminology
- Scope identification, inclusions and exclusions: materials, standards and design constraints
- Scope identification, inclusions and exclusions: methods and worked application
- Scope identification, inclusions and exclusions: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 46 min
Material takeoffs and quantity reconciliation
How a drawing set and schedule become runs, pieces, strips, sheets, pounds and accessory counts, what fixes those numbers, a nine-step worked example, and the checks that find a defect before it reaches the shop.
- Material takeoffs and quantity reconciliation: principles and terminology
- Material takeoffs and quantity reconciliation: materials, standards and design constraints
- Material takeoffs and quantity reconciliation: methods and worked application
- Material takeoffs and quantity reconciliation: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 39 min
Fabrication labor and machine time estimating
Hours of people, hours of machine and elapsed days; GAO's estimating methods and the build-up of an operation list from bends, hems, girth and pieces; AFS's limits, wages as BLS reports them, learning curves, and how to check an estimate before it leaves the desk.
- Fabrication labor and machine time estimating: principles and terminology
- Fabrication labor and machine time estimating: materials, standards and design constraints
- Fabrication labor and machine time estimating: methods and worked application
- Fabrication labor and machine time estimating: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 55 min
Installation labor and productivity estimating
How an installer turns a quantity and a production rate into labor-hours, crew-days and a manpower plan, what moves a rate, how published overtime and crew-size multipliers are read, and how to check planned hours against actual.
- Installation labor and productivity estimating: principles and terminology
- Installation labor and productivity estimating: materials, standards and design constraints
- Installation labor and productivity estimating: methods and worked application
- Installation labor and productivity estimating: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 44 min
Procurement, supplier qualification and logistics
How metal is qualified, bought, moved and received: the paperwork, who bears the loss in transit, sheet weights, tiedown minimums for a load, and what to do when a bundle arrives wet.
- Procurement, supplier qualification and logistics: principles and terminology
- Procurement, supplier qualification and logistics: materials, standards and design constraints
- Procurement, supplier qualification and logistics: methods and worked application
- Procurement, supplier qualification and logistics: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 44 min
Production planning and delivery coordination
How an order moves from approved submittal to a delivered bundle: the planning terms and the AFS shop queue, piece limits, weight and storage rules, backward scheduling with the next-business-day booking, and the checks that catch late, wrong or damaged deliveries.
- Production planning and delivery coordination: principles and terminology
- Production planning and delivery coordination: materials, standards and design constraints
- Production planning and delivery coordination: methods and worked application
- Production planning and delivery coordination: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 49 min
Construction scheduling and trade interfaces
How flashing work fits a construction schedule: critical path, float and hand-offs between trades, a method for sequencing and inspecting an interface, and how interface failures are read and recorded.
- Construction scheduling and trade interfaces: principles and terminology
- Construction scheduling and trade interfaces: materials, standards and design constraints
- Construction scheduling and trade interfaces: methods and worked application
- Construction scheduling and trade interfaces: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 55 min
RFIs, change orders and document control
What an RFI asks and what only a signed change can do, the clocks and limits that bind a change, how to write, log and carry a revision through quote, drawing and shop, and the checks that catch a stale or unapproved change.
- RFIs, change orders and document control: principles and terminology
- RFIs, change orders and document control: materials, standards and design constraints
- RFIs, change orders and document control: methods and worked application
- RFIs, change orders and document control: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 48 min
Field quality plans and inspection records
How a written field quality plan for flashing is built: the feature of work it controls, the preparatory, initial and follow-up phases, the thickness and size checks, the deficiency list and the records a reviewer reads, with the fall-protection rule for roof inspection.
- Field quality plans and inspection records: principles and terminology
- Field quality plans and inspection records: materials, standards and design constraints
- Field quality plans and inspection records: methods and worked application
- Field quality plans and inspection records: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 53 min
Cost tracking, productivity and profitability
What a job cost is made of, how strips per sheet, hems and piece length drive a flashing job, and how to compare actual hours and material with a baseline. Covers earned value, percent complete, margin versus markup and the checks that make the numbers trustworthy.
- Cost tracking, productivity and profitability: principles and terminology
- Cost tracking, productivity and profitability: cost drivers, units and standards
- Cost tracking, productivity and profitability: methods and worked application
- Cost tracking, productivity and profitability: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 79 min
Closeout, punch lists and warranties
How a project is closed out: substantial and final completion, a punch list that can be closed, the closeout package, and how warranties are issued, kept in force and claimed on.