Managing Construction Projects Seminar
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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 – 5:00 pm
Overview of Project Delivery Systems, Phases and Documentation
Project delivery systems
Project phases
Managing the design effort
Project documentation
Project impacts
Overview of Contracting and Bidding
Basic contract principles
Contract formation
Bid document review
Key contract provisions
Dispute resolution
Estimating Principles
Mechanics of estimating
Design phase estimates
The estimating role in the development of bid documents
Using estimating to control costs
Risk assessment and its role in developing project contingency
Scheduling – Start to Finish
Preconstruction scheduling
Baseline schedule preparation
Schedule monitoring and updating
Evaluating project impacts
Construction Phase
Managing equipment and materials
Managing labor and safety
Change orders and constructive changes
Handling delays and disputes
Schedule of values, pay applications
Project Close-Out and Turn-Over
System testing and commissioning
Final inspection
Guarantees and warranties
Turn over of drawings, technical information and user manuals
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Architects
7.0 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 PDHs to professional engineers and 7.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects in all states, excluding Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for licensing maintenance.
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
Daniel Frondorf, CPE, CDT
DG Frondorf and Associates LLC, CincinnatiMr. Frondorf owns and operates Cincinnati-based DG Frondorf and Associates LLC, a construction cost estimating consulting firm. He is a member of Consulting Estimator’s Round Table (CERT), AACE, and the American Society of Professional Estimators (ASPE). He has 25 years of service as a construction estimator, and has presented several seminars on estimating practices and ethical bidding topics to trade associations and at industry events. Mr. Frondorf is also a past instructor of construction estimating at the University of Cincinnati and has guest lectured there and at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. He has also written several articles on estimating related topics in Estimating Today and Design Cost Data magazines.
Gilbert Laterza
Wood, PLCWood, PLC, Cincinnati Mr. Laterza has more than 39 years of proven construction and engineering experience that includes office and on-site project management. Current roles include management, estimating, project cost, planning, and scheduling for proposals and projects. Mr. Laterza also has experience in the power generation, paper, governmental, industrial, manufacturing, and commercial sectors. His responsibilities include overseeing and estimating for greenfield and brownfield projects, updating corporate estimating databases, evaluating project scope for estimate development, and reviewing site conditions. When required, Mr. Laterza performs quantity take-offs, labor rate schedules, materials pricing, and sourcing from historical data and local vendors and distributors. He includes indirect costs; estimate basis and methodology including equipment rentals, estimate plans, basis of estimate documentation; and project proposal. Mr. Laterza provides leadership for other estimators and schedulers on the use of estimating and scheduling software, including updates to the software and database, and historical pricing maintenance.