Supervising Multiple Construction Sites: An Advanced Project Management Course (Online / Remote)
1Summary
A single construction project is demanding enough. Running several at once — with shared resources, shifting priorities and different risk profiles on each site — is a different challenge altogether, and traditional single-project methods usually fall short of it.
The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy built this course to close that gap. Participants learn a structured, multi-project approach to supervision and site operation, covering everything from inspection duties and quality control to the systems that let a manager track several interconnected projects at once — the practical foundation for running construction programs, not just individual sites.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend?
- Project managers, project directors and consultants
- Engineers and planners
- Contractor and supplier organisations
- Site engineers and assistant engineers working in supervision and execution
- Researchers and academics involved in the construction and building industries
What You Will Gain
- The full set of duties and responsibilities involved in supervising building operations and following up on the implementation of plans and specifications.
- Quality control methods for completing projects within cost and time constraints.
- A clear picture of how Multiple Project Management differs from Traditional Project Management, and what it adds.
- A systematic, ready-to-apply approach for implementing Multiple Project Management techniques.
3Course Content
Module 1: Single-Project Thinking vs Managing a Portfolio of Projects
- The difference between Multiple Project Management (MPM) and Single Project Management (SPM)
- Criteria for grouping and selecting projects under MPM
- Key benefits of MPM: portfolio management and resource management
Module 2: Core Concepts: Why Projects Fail and What Managing Them Involves
- Projects vs operations, and why projects fail
- Key project management concepts and the project life cycle
- Project management processes overview
Module 3: Planning a Project End to End
- Initiating and planning projects, and building the Work Breakdown Structure
- Developing the project plan, resource plan, and cost estimating and budgeting
- Establishing the project team, and the communication, procurement and risk management plans
Module 4: Executing, Tracking and Closing Projects
- Executing projects, distributing project information and quality assurance
- Contract administration, schedule updates and performance measurement using Earned Value
- Change control and the purpose, inputs, outputs, tools and techniques of closing projects
- Project manager skills, role and responsibilities
Module 5: Coordinating Work Across Multiple Projects
- Promoting collaboration among project teams
- Organisation-wide planning and process management
- Aligning priorities and shared resources between simultaneous projects
Module 6: Building a Multi-Project Management Information System
- Creating an MPM database and project templates
- Setting up a new project within the system
- Single-project and multi-project reporting, and updating the project plan