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AGC Education Foundation aims to serve as the education clearinghouse for the construction industry in Washington, so that we can all receive training and education about careers, best practices and legal requirements in our business. Count on your AGC Education Foundation to help you at every stage of learning in your construction career.
MISSION: To develop and promote construction careers through quality education and training.
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AUTOCAD COURSES
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AUTOCAD: AN INTRODUCTION
If you don't currently use AutoCAD, this course will get you started. This hands-on two-day class introduces the fundamentals of AutoCAD. Upon completion, you will be able to use AutoCAD to draft in 2D and will be confident in the use of AutoCAD to create, layer, edit, modify, annotate, and dimension drawings.
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AUTOCAD: ADVANCED WORKSHOP
This one-day course is intended for those who have taken the Introduction to AutoCAD course or who have received instructor approval. Advanced AutoCAD builds on the basic principles that are taught in the introduction course.
Class topics include:
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PRIMAVERA COURSES
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INTRODUCTION TO SURETRAK® Project Manager Course
This 2-day course provides a comprehensive overview of SureTrak Project Manager for Windows. It examines how to use SureTrak for project planning, scheduling, control, and analysis. Course 401 earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs.
Audience: New SureTrak users
Prerequisite: A working knowledge of Windows®
At the completion of this course the student will be able to:
• Create a project
• Set up calendars
• Organize a project using activity codes
• Add activities and relationships to a project
• Perform schedule calculations
• Apply constraints to reflect reality
• Edit and modify activity information
• Manage resource and costs
• Track and record progress
• Create and customize layouts
• Use filters to select specific activities
• Control printed output
• Create project reports
MIGRATING FROM P3 TO P6 COURSE
This 2-day course is specifically designed for users moving from Primavera Project Planner (P3) to Primavera 5.0/6.0. Numerous charts list how P3 fields and functionality map to Primavera 5.0/6.0, enabling users to leverage their existing knowledge of P3 and rapidly adapt to new features in Primavera 5.0/6.0. The course begins with navigation, menus, and terminology in Primavera 5.0/6.0, and introduces new ways to view layouts and run reports. The course also details how basic tasks in the project management life cycle are executed in Primavera 5.0/6.0, including how to create activities, assign and analyze resources, and update the project plan. An appendix at the back of the manual covers how to convert projects from P3 to Primavera 5.0/6.0. The course earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs. (Please note that this course is designed for existing users of P3. Those who wish to learn Primavera 5.0/6.0, but are not P3 users, should register for Course 102.)
Audience: Experienced P3 users
Prerequisite: Course 601 or equivalent experience with P3
At the completion of this course the student will be able to:
• Identify Major Hierarchical Structures
• Create a Project
• Add Activities
• Assign Duration Types to Activities
• Identify New Date Fields
• Analyze Resource/Cost Usage
• Update a Project
• Format Schedule Data
• Identify Activity Percent Complete Types
• Print Layouts
• Create and Print Reports
• Create User-Defined Fields
• Define and Run Global Change Statements
P3 COURSE: PLANNING & SCHEDULING WITH PRIMAVERA PROJECT PLANNER®
Get started with P3 through hands-on, basic training. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning P3. Scheduling techniques will be covered. This 3-day course leads you through nine hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion, using the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resources, and costs. The course earns 19.5 PDUs and 1.95 CEUs
Audience: New P3 users
Prerequisite: A working knowledge of WindowsTM
At the completion of this course the student will be able to:
• Define project and coding structures
• Add and organize activity data
• Create a target schedule
• Develop a project network with precedence relationships
• Enter statusing data to update a schedule
• Perform schedule calculations
• Apply constraints to a schedule
• Customize the project layout
PRIMAVERA CONTRACTOR COURSE
This 2-day course provides hands-on training for contractors. It examines how to plan, schedule, control, and analyze projects. The course earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs.
Audience: New Contractor users
Prerequisite: Working knowledge of Windows
At the completion of this course the student will be able to:
• Create a project
• Assign a calendar to a project
• Add activities and relationships to a project
• Organize a project using activity codes
• Perform manual schedule calculations
• Apply constraints to an activity
• Modify activity information
• Track progress on an activity
• Create and customize layouts
• Apply filters to a project
• Customize the appearance of a project for reporting purposes
• Import and export project data |
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