These courses are presented at our facilities in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar. Click HERE to book a course at one of our venues.

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Beginners and Advanced Courses

We want you to be able to get the maximum benefit from our labours and your monthly rental. So, to this end, we offer short, one- and two-day courses on getting the best results from the software. These courses will bring new users up to speed and encourage existing users to take advantage of the powerful new features of Candy. New and better ways of using Candy will be encouraged and users will be shown how to be more productive in their work. Users will be encouraged to explore these features outside of their usual domain, so that integration with colleagues becomes easier. The Core courses are given to candidates from any company and are usually run in our training facilities; the ‘In-house’ courses are arranged with and given to employees of a single company, in which case the course may be run at the company’s premises. If you experience problems with the links on the left, please use the old online booking. To receive more information regarding course availability, please e-mail: Please note that course availability may vary depending on the location of the course.

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.