Essential core courses

These courses are presented at our own lecture facilities.
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Construction Estimating & Valuations (C201)
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.

Forecast Budget & Cash Flow (C301) (Integration of Estimating and Planning)
Suitable for Estimators, Planners, Site Engineers, Contract Managers and Quantity Surveyors who are familiar with Candy Estimating and Planning. The course concentrates on the integration of Estimating and Planning to create forecast budgets and a more detailed cash flow analysis.

Construction Planning & Programming (C202)
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.

Project Valuations & Cost Reporting (C203)
Suitable 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 & Allowables.

Introductory Courses

Bill Preparation (C101)
Suitable for Estimators and Estimator’s assistants who are involved with entering and importing ASCII files from other packages, as well as compiling bills of quantities using Candy. Overprinting of the client’s bill for tender submission will also be covered.

Materials Received (C103)
Suitable for site clerks involved in capturing delivery notes and other site costs. Reconciling the materials received to the head office ledger, generating reports for cost and bulk material reconciliation are covered in detail.

Principles of Planning (C102)
Suitable for Planners, Site Engineers, Site Agents, Contract Managers and Estimators. The course covers definitions, objectives and philosophy of planning and programming, tender and project planning, short–term programmes, precedence networks and practicals. Candidates will learn to draw and calculate a network, plot a bar chart, allocate resources and plot resource histograms. They will also develop a good understanding of the principles upon which Candy Planning is based.

Principles of Estimating (C104)
Suitable for Estimators, Site Engineers, Site agents, Contract Managers. The course covers objectives, preparation, planning, analysing, finalising and submission of a tender. Candidates will learn to do a tender summary, kick-off meeting agenda and draft P & G’s. Practically, candidates will calculate basic rates, worksheet calculations and splitting rates into resource groups. They will also develop a good understanding of the principles upon which Candy Estimating is based.

These courses are offered on request. Request a course

Advanced Courses

Candy Earned Value and Financial Forecasting (C401)

Suitable for Estimators, Planners, Site Engineers, Project managers, Contract Managers and Quantity Surveyors who are familiar with Candy Estimating and Planning.

This is a one day course designed to help any person that needs to prepare earned value management graphs, cost and allowable comparisons, forecasting of cost and allowable to completion. The course will also focus on the linking between the estimate and program and the preparation of forecasting graphs.

The course is suitable for experience users in both Candy Estimating and Candy Planning that want to know how to compile and manage Financial forecasts & Earned value analysis in Candy.

The course covers the basics about Candy Cost & Allowable Forecasting including bill and program linking methods, program and valuation preparation, linking, allowable and cost forecasts, program and valuation synchronisation cost and allowable graphs.

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Time Location (C404)
Suitable for Planners, Site Engineers, Contract Managers who are familiar with the Candy Planning . This course concentrates on the graphical representation of a program against axes of time and location. Time location is also known as Time Chainage, Sloping Barcharts, March Charts and Line of Balance, and are suitable for programs of hi-rise buildings, roads, pipelines, railway lines, tunnels and mine shafts.

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Specialised in-house training

Quantity Surveyor Workshop (C302)
Suitable for Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers who submit the Client certificate and generate the monthly cost report. Aspects of checking the original tender, re-modelling, entering accounting codes for cost reconciliation, as well as generating engineering and production information for site control are discussed.

Planning Workshop (C303)
Suitable for Planners, Site Engineers, Contract Managers who are familiar with the Candy Planning but are not using its full potential. This course concentrates on controlling the project, managing the information required by the program,  and reporting on the state of the project. Filtering, recording as-built programs, information schedules, resource histograms, resource optimisation.

We recommend that delegates bring examples of existing programs to the workshop for discussion.

These courses are offered on request. Request a course

Management courses

Analysis & interpretation (C402) 
A half day seminar for executives and managers who require an understanding of the information that can be generated by Candy, but do not necessarily require hands-on training.

These courses are offered on request. Request a course