Overview

With rapid changes in technology and increasing complexity, strong multi-disciplinary planning skills are required for today’s engineering professionals. This course will infuse strategic planning, and market understanding in an engineer’s practice to enable one to work beyond the regular call of specialised engineering practice, and progress to working on masterplans, feasibility studies, due diligence and fatal flaw analysis.

This CPD course is geared towards emerging professionals with up to five years of professional experience. 

Why Should an Individual Attend?

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Develop the ability to contribute towards due diligence reports, master plans and feasibility studies.
• Empower people in institutions to better understand such products and services and work more effectively with firms providing such services.
• Enhance your Built Environment industry skills through this programme.

Outcomes

On completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand market requirements and identify opportunities that translate to projects. 
• Specify strategic tools used to deliver objectives.
• Contribute towards a multi-disciplinary (Feasibility) Study project team
• Incorporate Design Thinking, including Business Model Canvas, Empathy and Value Proposition to deliver studies.
• Specific Skills in planning feasibility studies:
  • Plan, prepare and analyse segments of a due diligence / feasibility and or tariff study.
  • Identify crucial arguments and effectively explore the various assumptions.
  • Present ideas in a simple, effective, convincing and objective manner. 
  • Contribute towards a feasibility study financial model using various tools, such as Open and Microsoft Excel.
  • Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to improve plans and projections.

Program Outline

COURSE CONTENTS

The course will cover the following topics:

• Strategic Planning applied in Projects
• Projects Life Cycle
• Risk Management
• Due Diligence / Fatal Flaw Analysis, Master Plans
• Strategic Market Research, Segmentation and Analysis
• Understanding Basic Concepts of Finance
• Capacity Planning
• Engineering Analysis
• Systems Engineering Principles
• Options Analysis

Who Should Attend?

• Engineers
• Technicians
• Technologists
• Architects
• Project / Construction Managers
• Quantity Surveyors
• Contractors / Sub Contractors