Two-day CIOB-branded courses covering principles of project management take place in April and October.
For the first time, the CIOB is to run its own in-house CIOB-branded training courses, offering a two-day introduction to the principles of project management based on its best-selling book, The Code of Practice for Project Management.
The course, offered on two sessions in April and October, will be aimed at young professionals beginning their careers in project management, or contractors’ staff seeking an insight into project management as a discipline.
“Construction Project Management – Meeting the Code of Practice” will be taught by David Woolven FCIOB, a principal teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, part of University College London.
Woolven was chair of the CIOB working group that authored the fifth edition of the Code of Practice, which was published in 2014. His fellow tutor will be Roger Waterhouse FCIOB, also a member of the working group and a tutor at the University College of Estate Management.
Woolven told Construction Manager that the courses originated in training offered to graduate entrants at a major project management consultancy, and later widened to other employers.
“We present the training – it has the advantage that we know the document very thoroughly. It’s aimed at non-cognate graduates, people sponsored by their employers, or perhaps people in intermediate positions looking to enhance the possibility of getting a job at a different level. We think it might be appealing to a number of smaller companies, or even to individual members.”
It would also appeal to contractors’ staff, he said. “At one time, contractors had a simpler role – they focused on putting up a building. But now they have a wider remit, so the skills staff require now are more like those of project managers. So I think that will also be marketplace.”
Woolven stressed that the course is a new venture for the CIOB. “For the first time, the CIOB is running training courses, to support the membership, and there may be opportunities to offer it in the evenings as well in future. I’m sure there is a big marketplace for it, partly because it will help members with their CPD commitments.”
