Commercial Awareness

Intro. Do you want to avoid costly commercial mistakes on site? More and more people working within the industry are being called upon to understand and deal with commercial and contractual matters.

This highly interactive course will outline some of the current commercial terminology, give a grasp of basic contractual issues and provide skills to make you more commercially aware on site.
Who will benefit? Site managers, engineers, builders and other non-commercial staff who, in the course of their roles are required to deal with commercial matters.
What will I learn? Delegates will gain a basic understanding of the key commercial issues that should be considered and actions that can be taken on a typical construction project in order to avoid costly mistakes.
Course outline
  • Commercial success of projects
  • Procurement routes and contracts
  • Project correspondence (CVI's, RFI's etc)
  • Document control (drawings, spec. and BQ's)
  • Pricing variations and site instructions
  • Keeping records
  • Monitoring costs
  • When to give notice
  • Dealing with claims