Construction Manager
Building Dreams,
One Project at a Time
Construction Managers bring architectural dreams to life. Lead projects from concept to completion, leaving a legacy of remarkable structures as you navigate every facet of construction with skill and expertise.
Alternative Titles: Building Manager, Construction Project Lead, Site Operations Manager
Top 5 courses for Construction Managers
We get it – training can be hard to commit to when you're in the middle of a big project or busy construction season. These are our top 5 courses for you. Want to see the full suite of courses that apply to you? Keep scrolling to check out the full list.
Business Ethics in Home Building
Develop an understanding of ethical behaviour and how it relates to your workplace and on the site.
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Business Fundamentals for the Home Renovator
This fully online course is designed to build knowledge in how to start, grow and maintain a Home Renovation business. Structured content, self-check exercises, essential handouts and step-by-step guidance will enable learners to work towards their business goals. If you want to succeed in the renovation business, you can’t afford to be without the Home Renovator course.
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Business and Management Fundamentals
Learn how to lead through change and the importance of effective communications, setting realistic goals, bench marking, and creating standards for production.
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Communication and Negotiation
Learn how to manage difficult conversations and create inclusive and interest-based resolutions used by experienced negotiators across all industries.
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Finance and Accounting
Strengthen your grasp of cash flow, balance sheets, and income statements and what they reveal about the financial health of your organization.
Full Course List for Construction Managers
Develop an understanding of ethical behaviour and how it relates to your workplace and on the site. Learn strategies to identify and effectively resolve ethical issues while adhering to your personal and corporate values and codes of conduct.
Rise to the challenge of business management in residential construction. Learn how to lead through change and the importance of effective communications, setting realistic goals, bench marking, and creating standards for production. Strengthen your understanding of customer service, accounting, sales, marketing, and how they relate to profitability.
Learn how to manage difficult conversations and create inclusive and interest-based resolutions used by experienced negotiators across all industries. In this course, you will successfully develop the necessary communication strategies to identify barriers, adapt to navigating dirty tricks introduced in a negotiation, and differentiate between judging, assuming and describing statements.
Build a practical understanding of financial ratios and cost control. Strengthen your grasp of cash flow, balance sheets, and income statements and what they reveal about the financial health of your organization, and learn how to use financial reports as valuable management tools.
Master the basics of human resources management for home building businesses, both large and small, including strategic planning, targeted training, performance management, discipline, employee retention, and regulatory compliance. Discover helpful resources to attract and retain quality employees.
Delve into the role and impact of land development on the new home construction industry, particularly in Alberta’s single-family home marketplace. You’ll explore key topics at each stage in the land development process: Research and Acquisition; Planning, Design and Approvals; Sales and Marketing; and Construction; Completion. While the specifics of land development differ from one municipality to another, the course focuses on the land development fundamentals that tend to remain consistent across different jurisdictions.
Explore the legal and regulatory environment of residential construction and gain understandings essential to keeping a home building business on a stable footing.
Participants will enhance their leadership and management skills through an engaging learning experience that will empower them with the confidence and environment to generate ideas, solve problems and make decisions. This workshop will additionally provide time for reflection, discussion, and an ongoing application of concepts.
Learn how to interpret and apply current national and Alberta building codes to housing construction projects. You’ll explore related standards and legislative authorities as well as administration and municipal inspection processes.
Part one of this course focuses on the Construction Performance Guide for New Home Warranty in Alberta and how to utilize it to evaluate warranty claims. Participants will develop the knowledge and essential skills required to interpret and apply workmanship and material standards related to warranty coverage. Participants will also explore the importance of customer service and how to address and resolve issues effectively.
Explore new energy codes, including effective insulation, prescriptive based requirements, simple trade off, performance-based requirements, continuous insulation, air tightness, service water (DHW), and unintended consequences of energy.
The goals for the Pan-Canadian Framework will affect homebuilders and homeowners. This course will help you understand how the upcoming code changes will challenge the way we plan and build our houses. Learn about energy efficiency, airtightness testing, and affordable approaches to building high-performance homes.rnrnu003ca class=u0022tealtextu0022 href=u0022u0022u003eLearn more u003eu003c/au003e
Learn how to identify soil conditions that necessitate changes to a home construction project plan to avoid potentially disastrous and expensive issues. Expand your understanding of developer reports, logs, and assessments to make informed discussions with geotechnical engineers and prepare you to implement the appropriate construction techniques.
Explore building science and its importance in constructing effective building envelopes and building durable homes. This course was reflects new codes and current best practices while providing additional clarification to key concepts and applications.
Moisture control is a critical part of building construction because moisture problems create significant problems that homebuilders have to deal with. However, always keeping a building envelope completely dry and in all circumstances is unrealistic. This course focuses on explaining moisture and why it’s so important to control it, how it enters a building, how it accumulates, and how it is removed. Remember, moisture control is a critical part of the construction process, and it is up to you to ensure you understand the concepts that make moisture control possible.
Learn advanced problem-solving techniques and apply them to residential construction case studies. Case studies are related to issues that can develop during the construction process which impact Foundations, Framing, Exteriors, Interiors.
Learn advanced problem-solving techniques and apply them to residential construction warranty case studies. Case studies are related to issues that can develop during the construction process which impact foundations, framing, exterior finishes, and interior finishes.
Lead construction projects with confidence. Explore fundamental project management concepts and best practices, how to develop strategies for scheduling, critical paths, contingencies, logistics and lead times, human resources, safety, administration, contracts, regulations, budgeting and cost control, quality control, and client relations.
Develop an appreciation for the value of exceptional service. You’ll learn how to set, improve, and sustain customer value in the organization, develop powerful techniques for understanding customer perspectives, and creating long-term business relationships.
This course recognizes the universal importance and impact of the subject matter of customer service. In doing so, it focuses on our industry, the New Home Construction Industry, and more specifically, it does so from the homeowner’s perspective with respect to customer service expectations at each major stage of the new home building process. Its objective is to educate home builders on the essential business tool that is customer service, and to hone and strengthen this skill so that it will result in greater business success.
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