Construction Project Management Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Construction Players, Stages of a Project
Construction entities
Organizational structure
Public vs. private
Unions
Project types
Project lifecycle
Construction technology
Real Estate, Feasibility, Design Professional and Contractor Selection, Programming
Due diligence, code research
Project delivery type
Source selection
Design process, A/E scope of work and fee structure
Sustainability
Drawings, Specifications, Contracts, Bidding, Pre-Construction, Mobilization
Work breakdown structure, bid package
Types of contracts
General and supplemental conditions
Liens
Bonds and insurance
Buyout, subcontracts
Scheduling
Gantt charts, bar charts
Critical path method (CPM)
Misc. schedule topics: liquidated damages, schedule “crashing”
Construction Phase
Claims, dispute resolution
Change orders
Schedule of values, pay applications
Equipment
Labor issues
Materials
Project closeout
Miscellaneous Topics
Safety
Earned value management
Summary: scope, time, cost, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Architects
6.5 Public Protection/HSW CE Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW (Public Protection) continuing education hours to architects in all states, except for Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Georgia.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Provider No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Area of Practice; Provider No. 0004647), Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York (NYSED Provider No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar also offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been reviewed by any state contractor licensing entity.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Mike Keating, PE, MBA
Mr. Keating has been in the construction industry for over 29 years in various capacities including estimator/cost engineer, project manager, construction manager, director of construction, and A/E construction administrator to name a few. He has been involved in both commercial and residential construction projects both in the public and private sector with several individual projects exceeding $100 million in construction value. He currently works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a cost engineer and value engineering officer on large military, civil works, and inter-agency developments. In addition, he teaches a class in Construction Engineering as an adjunct instructor at the University of South Alabama, Department of Civil, Coastal, and Environmental Engineering.
Mr. Keating grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and holds a bachelor of science degree in Construction Management from the University of Nebraska. In addition, he received his MBA degree from the University of West Florida in 2004. He is a licensed professional engineer (PE) in the State of Virginia and a certified general contractor (CGC) in the State of Florida, and he holds several other industry certifications including certified cost engineer (CCE), value management associate (VMA), certified professional estimator (CPE), and certified construction contract administrator (CCCA).