Course Description
Project controls is the discipline that keeps major capital and construction projects on schedule and on budget — the integrated planning, scheduling, cost management, and performance measurement that large contractors and owners rely on to deliver multi-million-pound projects. It is one of the most in-demand competencies across construction, energy, and infrastructure.
This course develops comprehensive project controls capability: planning and scheduling (including critical path), cost estimating and control, earned value management (EVM), change control, and forecasting. Participants learn to build and maintain the schedules and cost systems that give project leadership the visibility and control needed on large, complex projects.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the role and scope of project controls
- Develop work breakdown structures and project schedules
- Apply critical path method (CPM) scheduling
- Develop cost estimates and budgets
- Implement cost control and forecasting
- Apply earned value management (EVM) and its metrics
- Manage change and variations
- Report project performance to stakeholders
How the course is delivered
The course combines project controls theory with practical planning, scheduling, cost, and earned value exercises. Participants work through schedule development, EVM calculations, and forecasting using realistic project scenarios.
The programme balances planning, cost, and performance measurement, reflecting the integrated project controls function on major projects.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Project controls engineers and specialists
- Planners, schedulers, and cost engineers
- Project and construction managers
- Quantity surveyors and commercial staff
- Anyone controlling large capital projects
Daily programme
- The role and scope of project controls
- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- The project controls cycle
- Integrating schedule and cost
- Schedule development
- Critical path method (CPM)
- Resource and cost loading
- Schedule analysis and optimisation
- Cost estimating
- Budgeting and cost control
- Cash flow and commitments
- Cost forecasting
- EVM fundamentals
- EVM metrics (CPI, SPI, EAC)
- Performance measurement
- Variance analysis
- Change and variation control
- Risk and contingency in controls
- Performance reporting and dashboards
- Workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
