Training Primavera P6 for Construction

Primavera P6 for Construction

Learn to plan, schedule and control a construction project in Primavera P6, using one building from site setup to handover. You build the whole program yourself, update it with a month of progress and prove your skills in a practical assessment.

Every exercise is a construction project, not a generic example
Take home your finished schedule, a WBS template and a schedule review checklist
Taught by practising planners, in classes of 12 or fewer
Counts toward PMI professional development hours

Opening soon. The first classes are being scheduled. Register your interest and we will send you the dates first.

Choose your course

Take the full program, or the part you need. Fees are per person for open classes in Canada and Nigeria.

Course	For	Length	Fee in Canada	Fee in Nigeria
Professional Planner (full program)	Anyone who will plan or schedule projects	5.5 days	C$2,795	₦640,000
Fundamentals	New planners, engineers, quantity surveyors	3 days	C$1,695	₦380,000
Advanced	Working planners	2 days	C$1,295	₦300,000
P6 for Managers	Project managers, owners, lenders	1 day	C$695	₦150,000
Practical assessment	Anyone who wants the competence certificate	Half day	C$295, included in the full program	₦80,000, included in the full program

What you will be able to do

Set up a construction project with a work breakdown, calendars and coding a contractor or owner would accept
Build a logic-driven schedule, find the critical path and explain float to a site team
Load resources and costs, set a baseline and update progress each month
Produce look-ahead programs, progress against baseline, earned value and cash flow reports
Check a schedule against the DCMA 14-point test and fix what fails
Exchange schedules with clients and subcontractors using XER files

Included with every course

A working copy of P6 for the length of the course
Step-by-step lesson notes with screenshots for every exercise
A project file for the start of each day, so you can catch up if you fall behind
Case studies set in Nigeria and Canada, with local calendars, holidays and currency
Class recordings for 90 days
30 days of email support after the course and one group question session

Fundamentals: 3 days

You build Riverside Court, a four-storey office building, from an empty database to a costed schedule with one month of progress.

Day 1: Set up the project

Planning in construction and the P6 screen
Enterprise and team structure
Creating the project
Work breakdown structure
Site, office and rainy-season calendars
Adding activities

Day 2: Build the schedule

Milestones and activity types
Relationships and lags
Scheduling and the critical path
Total and free float
Constraints and contract dates
Look-ahead layouts, filters and printing

Day 3: Resources, baseline and progress

Labour, equipment and material resources
Assigning resources and costs
Saving a baseline
Updating a month of progress
Progress against baseline and S-curves
Exporting and importing XER files

Advanced: 2 days

For planners who already use P6. Requires Fundamentals or 6 months of P6 use.

Day 4: Resources, costs and quality

Activity codes and user-defined fields
Global change
Resource levelling
Cash flow and labour histograms
DCMA 14-point schedule check
Fixing what fails

Day 5: Control and analysis

Earned value: SPI and CPI
Multiple float paths
Retained logic, progress override and out-of-sequence work
What-if scenarios
Delay analysis basics
Working with several projects
Preparing for the assessment

P6 for Managers: 1 day

For project managers, owner's representatives and lenders who review schedules rather than build them. You learn to read and challenge a contractor's program.

You take away a 10-question schedule review checklist.

What a good construction schedule looks like
Reading P6: layouts, critical path and float
Challenging a contractor's schedule
Monthly progress reviews
Earned value for managers
Delay and extension of time requests
P6 on the web for leaders

Practical assessment and certificates

Prove you can do the work

In 3 hours you build, baseline, update and report on a new project, a 9-month health clinic, from a written brief. A score of 70 out of 100 earns the certificate of competence. One free resit within 60 days.

Two certificates

Completion for everyone who attends. Competence for those who pass the assessment. Both numbered so employers can verify them.

Dates and booking

The next open classes are being scheduled now. Tell us which course you want and we will send you the dates, or book a private course for your team on dates that suit you.

10% off when you pay 30 days before the class
15% off for 3 or more people from one organization
Private courses for your team are priced per day for the group

Questions

Do I need my own P6 licence?

No. You get a working copy of P6 for the length of the course.

I have never used P6. Where do I start?

Start with Fundamentals or the full program. No P6 experience is needed.

Does it count toward my PMP?

Yes. PMP holders can claim the course hours as professional development units with PMI.

Can you train our whole planning team?

Yes. We run any course privately, using your own project data and templates if you wish.

Is this official Oracle training?

No. Motiza is an independent training provider. Oracle and Primavera are registered trademarks of Oracle and its affiliates.

Register your interest

Classes are limited to 12 people.