NEXT-GEN Engineering & Construction Specialty Course at Texas A&M

City: Houston
Location: EnMed Building
1020 Holcombe Blvd
Houston, TX 77030
Next Gen Engineering

Next Gen Engineering creates the basis for all subsequent work. It must be done with technical quality, in sequence, and generate deliverables that meet the needs of suppliers, fabricators, constructors, and operators. Engineering frequently fails to deliver on these fundamental objectives. Workflows not understood, priorities out of sync with project needs, designs that are not tailored to the constructor’s methods, and the struggle to rapidly replan and reprioritize when things go wrong all contribute to the lack of performance.

This two-day course will enable participants to understand the engineering methods needed to generate the flow of work to optimize project performance.

Construction is where the rubber meets the road; living with or compensating for everything that has gone wrong up to that point. Naturally, experienced construction teams anticipate trouble and attempt to protect themselves from this variability by providing early required-at-site dates for materials, demanding engineering deliverables well before they are needed, and getting an early start on any construction activity. Far too often cut steel or start site prep is done prematurely before it can be sustained with engineering and materials. Projects often fail to maintain the sequence of work that is needed to support commissioning and start up. Instead, priorities are set based on what each contractor believes is best for them.

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https://projectproduction.org/reinvent-the-way-we-build/

Learning Objectives

During this course, learners will:

  • Recognize gaps in the current approach and why these gaps exist

  • Understand productization decisions

  • Plan engineering using a project production system.

  • Use the Five Levers of Optimization to improve engineering performance

  • Define and use Computer-Aided Production Engineering (CAPE), Concurrent Design, and DfMA/DfLC

  • Use Concurrent Digital Engineering and Production Control to align teams on standard workflows

  • Establish priorities and provide real time status of the physical work

  • Create awareness of production decisions that must be made

  • Map design space and requirements

  • Define modern construction

  • Plan construction and commissioning using a project production system

  • Comprehend application of production-based scheduling (DES, LRM, DRS)

  • Understand difference between project controls and production control

  • Use Production Control to align teams on standard workflows

  • Establish priorities and provide real time status of the physical work

  • Use concurrent engineering to generate a bill of process (BOP)

  • Use the Five Levers of Optimization to improve construction performance

  • See how technology coupled with the industrialized construction framework can be used to improve performance

  • Develop a proposal/plan for a capstone project

Who Should Attend

  • Project Managers /Leaders

  • Construction Managers, Superintendents, Project Engineers, and other personnel working as part of a team in capital projects from both owners, and engineering /construction organizations.

  • Employees from all capital project sectors are encouraged to attend including Oil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream and Downstream)

  • Chemicals, Renewable Energy, Infrastructure, Heavy Civil, Manufacturing, and Mining.

Investment: $2500.

For More Information About the Course:

Dr. Ivan Damnjanovic
Professor and Director of Engineering Project Management
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering, Texas A&M University
idamnjanovic@tamu.edu

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