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Essential core courses

Construction Estimating & Valuations (C201)* A two-day course suitable for Estimators and Quantity Surveyors new to Candy. The course concentrates on aspects of the estimating system, including bill creation, worksheets, masters and resources. The course covers:

• Importing Bill of Quantities from MS Excel
• Estimating
• Pricing using worksheets
• Subcontract & material adjudication
• Pricing using masters
• Mark up
• Generating reports
• Valuations

* Knowledge of estimating procedures is required   Construction Planning & Programming (C202) A two-day course suitable for Planners, Site Engineers, Site agents, Contract Managers and Estimators new to Candy. Detailed instruction will be given to produce a working program. Candidates then continue with planning & controlling the project, and recording the as-built program as well as managing the information from the design team as required by the program. Effective reporting on the project status across all levels of management is also  covered. The course covers:

• Bar charts
• Logic linking of activities
• Activity types
• Allocating resources& resource histograms
• The information and long lead schedules
• Progress program updating& update reports

By the course’s end, candidates should be able to produce complete programmes to control a project. * Knowledge of the principles of planning and bar charts is required.   Project Valuations & Cost Reporting (C203) A two-day course for Quantity Surveyors, Site Engineers, Site agents, Contract Managers and Commercial Managers. This course is designed to help the post-tender commercial team use Candy Valuations effectively to generate monthly valuations, price variations, and to manage their contracts “To-date, Remaining and At-completion” Costs & Allowable. The course covers:

• Post-tender checks & reviews
• Value engineering (re-modelling)
• Cost & Task coding structures
• Pricing & coding of variation orders
• Area bills for location control
• Subcontract Manager for subcontractor control
• Valuations using actual, claimed& final qty’s
• Generating and customising valuation reports
• Costs & Allowables

* Knowledge of post-tender procedures is required   Forecast Budget & Cash Flow (C301) (Integration of Estimating and Planning) A one-day course suitable for Estimators, Planners, Site Engineers, Contract Managers and Quantity Surveyors who are familiar with Candy The course concentrates on the integration of Estimating and Planning to create forecast budgets and a more detailed cash flow analysis. The course covers:

• Different methods of linking the bill to the program
• Forecast budget reports for the client & internally
• Forecast cashflow reports
• Resource histogram reports
• Updating the program to produce
• Valuation quantities
• To-date budgets
• Remaining forecast budgets

*Candidates must have attended the Estimating (C201) or Valuations (C203) and Planning (C202) courses.