PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP DAY
Wednesday, May 21
SERIES 1
Cost-Optimization Methodologies
9:00-10:30
Workshop A
Workshop A
From Planning to Prediction: Unlocking the Future of Connected Preconstruction
Synopsis
- Streamline early project planning to better manage risk and reduce costly rework downstream
- Connect budgets, forecasts, and actuals to improve financial visibility and improve project execution
- Leverage advanced technologies to assist in faster, data-driven decisions
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop B
Workshop B
Realizing the Opportunities of Target Value Delivery to Improve Cost Certainty & Meet Owner Satisfaction
Synopsis
Target Value Delivery (TVD) promises a solution to overcome silos and conflicting priorities between design and contractor teams in preconstruction, leading to wasted effort and lack of clarity in scope, cost and constructability.
Join this workshop to establish how to unlock the value of TVD:
- Establishing conditions of satisfaction early
- Assigning and agreeing to scope budget
- Ensuring the subject matter experts are engaged for accurate decision making
- Beyond the technical, how you can promote effective collaboration across owners, designers and contractors to achieve solutions
1:30 – 3:30
Workshop C
Workshop C
Improving Cost Accuracy Through Model-Based Estimating
Synopsis
Visualization through model-based estimating or 5D BIM improves cost forecasting and clarity in communication of budget allocation, savings opportunities and clash detection – critical factors in streamlining decision making and project success.
This workshop will provide you with the tools you need to get started:
- Identifying what level of design and resource is needed to reap the benefit of 5D BIM
- Working with architects to ensure design models and formats translate across
- Accounting for scope gaps or incomplete design documents
- Verifying the 3D model against 2D drawings
3:30 – 5:00
Workshop D
Workshop D
Rethinking Preconstruction & Estimating Workflows for Prefabrication
Synopsis
In today’s constrained construction industry prefabrication is often touted as the solution to overcome productivity bottlenecks, streamline project timelines and maintain quality. However, prefabrication requires an overhaul of preconstruction workflows.
Join this workshop to understand the impact on preconstruction to realize the benefits of prefabrication:
- Understanding how stakeholder roles and scopes of work change
- Reviewing preconstruction workflows for prefabricated solutions and their impact on design firms and contractors
- Identifying the ROI of prefabrication through speed, cost, quality and labor vs traditional build
- Overcoming barriers to prefabrication and when it’s not a viable solution
SERIES 2
Data Driven Preconstruction
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop E
Workshop E
Creating Standardized Data Frameworks to Facilitate Cross-Disciplinary Model-Based Collaboration
Synopsis
As the industry seeks stronger and better integration opportunities with the design community, it’s easy for ad-hoc approaches to win the day in lieu of an environment that depends on consistency in processes and standards. In today’s move towards an integrated data environment, it’s important to establish both project and organization-wide processes and data standard to drive clarity and set up projects for success.
Understand how to establish easy and accessible cross-disciplinary standards that are scalable across all project types and project stakeholders:
- Introduce accessible baseline expectations for project players across your organization in terms of process and platform usage when using a model.
- Maintain the balance between scalable standardization and burdensome and unachievable requirements that support cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Implement a repetitive process that overcomes previous barriers to entry and eliminates ad hoc, and unscalable approaches.
- Gain buy-in from design community for project specific teams, and longer term enduring relationships with design partners.
1:30 – 3:00
Workshop F
Workshop F
Pricing Uncertainty: Evolving Probabilistic Estimating to Account for Market Complexities
Synopsis
Dynamic market environments, fluctuating materials prices and labor availability mean bringing certainty to critical early estimates can be a challenge resulting in significant project cost and schedule risk.
This workshop will provide you with effective parametric processes to help better asses risks, costs and mitigation opportunities from early concept:
- How to break down risks and assign appropriate weighting
- Understanding the use case for different probability models beyond Monte Carlo simulations
- Opportunities and risk of deploying AI to support early conceptual estimates
3:30 – 5:00
Workshop G
Workshop G
Case Study: Developing an AI Roadmap to Improve Decision-Making Capabilities, Estimate Accuracy & Team Capacity
Synopsis
AI is a feature of almost any discussion in the construction industry today as an opportunity to harness data effectively, improve efficiency, quality and expand capabilities. But few contractors have realised it’s benefits to date and most are unsure what opportunities to target and where to begin.
Join this workshop to explore one contractor’s 5 year journey to AI implementation:
- Reviewing whether to develop solutions in-house or existing solutions providers
- Creating a resource plan and execution timeline
- Standardizing estimate and data capture to ensure quality and consistent data input
- Use cases in preconstruction and estimating to date and their impact
SERIES 3
Winning Work
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop H
Workshop H
Tracking Your Wins & Losses to Identify Internal Strengths, Develop Your Pipeline Strategy & Target the Most Valuable Opportunities
Synopsis
With construction backlog remaining high, capacity in the construction industry remains tight and opportunity for contractors significant. However, to maintain long-term success contractors must understand where to invest their resources to continue to win the right projects and grow.
This workshop will equip you to:
- Set up effective win rate tracking to analyze internal strengths
- Understand the market or project characteristics you should review prior to pursuit
- Conduct effective reviews on projects you didn’t win
- Establish objectives and key results that align project pursuit and corporate long-term strategy
1:30 – 3:00
Workshop I
Workshop I
Case Study: Successfully Identifying, Adapting & Scaling Into New Market Opportunities
Synopsis
The surge in investment in markets like data centers, advanced technology and infrastructure, is paralleled by markets softening in other areas. How though can contractors ride those waves, successfully identifying the next opportunity and adapting processes and structures to meet new opportunities?
In this workshop gain practical insights into:
- How to identify emerging market opportunities that match your company strengths
- Mapping the market to identify existing competitors and new potential partners
- Reviewing internal preconstruction processes and how to adapt these for new market requirements
- How to demonstrate expertise and win clients in a new space
3:30 – 5:00
Workshop J
Workshop J
Build Winning Projects with Strategic Partnerships
Synopsis
As clients increasingly move away from a low-bod mentality in selecting their project partners, building and presenting the experience and value-add that you can bring to a project is increasingly important. Ensuring that you are investing in your contractor relationships is increasingly important to winning work.
Explore how you can optimize your General Contactor/Trade Partner relationships to win more work:
- The impact of collaboration on quality, cost, and schedule
- Proactively managing project risks through partnerships
- Exploring early procurement methods
- Success stories in Strategic Partnerships
SERIES 4
Mitigating Risk in Preconstruction
11:00 – 12:30
Workshop K
Workshop K
Setting Up for Success Under Design-Build & Progressive Design-Build Contracts
Synopsis
Collaborative contracting models have moved to the center in attempts to reduce cost, improve speed to delivery and allow flexibility whilst mitigating risk for the project and parties. But upends entrenched processes and ways of thinking in construction.
Join this workshop to explore the benefits and challenges of collaborative delivery:
- Reviewing how the Design-Build or PDB contrasts to traditional and other lean delivery models such as Integrated Project Delivery
- What project characteristics lend themselves to success in this delivery model?
- How do stakeholder roles and responsibilities change in PDB?
- Exploring how preconstruction workflows change and the impact on internal team requirements
1:30 – 3:00
Workshop L
Workshop L
Rethinking Prequalification & Contracting Processes to Support Project Partners & Manage Risk Collaboratively
Synopsis
Construction has a history of deferring risk, resulting in contract language so complex, contradictory and onerous that they act as a deterrent even to qualified partners, with owners, general contractors and trade partners looking to protect themselves rather than ensure project success.
Join this workshop to understand how to balance risk mitigation, support your partners and drive to project success:
- Approaching risk as a collaborative effort to achieve project goals
- Reframing contract language to support rather than disqualify partners
- Understand the cultural and procedural changes required for effective partnering and collective risk management
- Ensuring adequate protections are in place for your company and best practice in negotiating around onerous contract terms
3:30 – 5:00
Workshop M
Workshop M
Collaborating with Owners to Manage Funding Cycles & Mitigate Risks to Contracting, Cost & Schedule
Synopsis
Project progress is often dependent on complex trigger releases for private funding packages, gateways and government grants – the source of many delays and stoppages as goal posts are seen to move, compressing preconstruction and delaying construction.
This workshop will equip you to:
- Gain insight into typical project funding models and timelines
- Identify red flags at each stage; prioritize issues and develop mitigation opportunities
- Collaborate with owners to align funding release and contracting milestones
- Analyze, communicate and ameliorate the impact of funding delays on proj