Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Site Leadership Would you like to improve your construction site leadership skills? This course will enhance your ability to build a collaborative team culture with their staff, improve job site productivity and complete projects on time, on budget, and safely. Ideal for lead hands, foremen and front-line supervisors that want…  Read more

Gaia College - Landscape Design Basics with Sketchup Pro This course is an introduction to landscape design using Sketchup Pro. It is geared towards landscape applications and 3D design, modeling and presentation. The course is a pre or co-requisite for Gaia College's Ecological Landscape Design course. Dates: January 10 - April 15, 2022 Time: Asynchronous…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Effective Construction Meetings & Meeting Minutes Construction meetings are critical to successful management of construction projects. Regular site meetings on a project with well documented minutes can facilitate communication and produce better results - making it more likely that the project will be completed successfully. Effective construction meeting management is…  Read more

Passive House Canada - Pathway to Passive House Designer/Consultant Certification (120P) The Pathway to Certification starts on January 10, 2022 and will be comprised of three courses: 120A, 120B, and 120C. Passive House certification ensures that you or your organization are expertly qualified to design high performance, highly efficient buildings to meet Canada’s national green…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Bluebeam Revu Basics These sessions provide the knowledge and skills to create, edit, markup, and collaborate on architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) documents using Bluebeam Revu. Create and navigate smart, information-rich document sets from converted Microsoft Office and CAD files. Annotate drawings with customizable markup and measurement tools, and work…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Last Planner System: Why it Works & How to Ensure Success The Last Planner® System is a lean production planning system designed to produce predictable workflow and continuous improvement in construction. The system has proven to help teams deliver better projects in less time at a lower cost – but…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Supervisory and Management Skills This course will enhance your ability to build a collaborative team culture, improve morale, and effectively communicate with people on their job sites. Participants will learn about leadership, motivational theory and application, improving group and individual performance, psychographic testing, time and stress management, staff training, substance…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Close Out a Construction Project Why would a Contractor, Owner Consultant or Subcontractor need to know best practices for closing out a construction project? The answer is simple - if you can't get it done then you can't reach substantial performance. Getting a project to substantial performance, and then to…  Read more

BC Wood - Managing Developer and Owner Expectations for Integrating Mass Timber Products into Hybrid Building Systems Today, Developers and Owners have high expectations when considering Mass Timber. They like that it is environmentally friendly, that it provides similar strength to steel and/or concrete within a smaller footprint and a lighter weight-bearing load, that it builds…  Read more