Training & Seminars
Based on over three decades of experience in engineering, construction program management, and disputes resolution, Barba Consulting has developed a specialized series of training and seminar programs designed to help your staff more effectively manage construction, control schedule and cost, mitigate claims, and resolve disputes.
These highly successful programs, which cover a broad range of contractual, management, claims analysis, and disputes resolution topics and techniques, have been presented throughout the United States, Canada, and overseas, covering such topics as:
- Forensic Project Management
- Prospective and Retrospective Time Impact Analysis
- CPM Scheduling in Mitigating and Analyzing Claims
- Delay and Disruption Claims
- Preventing and Defending Construction Claims
- Loss of Productivity Claims
- Claims Pricing and Damages Analysis
View our list of past seminars
We Can Customize a Program to Meet Your Specific Needs.
Our specialized programs can be presented in half-day, full-day, or two-day formats and are tailored to meet your timing and training objectives. We accomplish this by first interviewing key management personnel in your organization to gain a first-hand understanding of your specific training goals and objectives. We then review forms of contract, project procedures, and specifications used by your organization.
Thereafter, utilizing the knowledge gained through our interviews and review of documents, we tailor a program to meet your needs. This approach to program development results in a company-specific program that when presented promotes group participation and interaction and significantly enhances the learning experience.
Our programs present practical techniques in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that make it fun to learn, and provide your staff with strategies and skills that can be immediately put into action. And, by staying abreast of the latest case law, industry practices and trends, we ensure that the techniques we detail represent current "best practices" in construction and government contracting today.
Our programs are taught by our Chief Executive Officer, Evans M. Barba. Mr. Barba is an internationally-recognized authority in the fields of construction program and project management, contract administration, critical path method scheduling, and disputes resolution. A highly sought-after speaker, Mr. Barba has taught management and disputes resolution-related programs internationally for over 30 years. In addition to his many years as a public speaker, he has been retained by numerous public and private corporations, state and local governments, and quasi-public organizations to speak in-house to their contracts, legal, and construction divisions.
Mr. Barba is an accomplished instructor and entertaining teacher, who has a unique ability to motivate and energize an audience, thus maximizing knowledge transfer and group participation in the programs he presents.
We have also developed a series of focused, sixty to ninety-minute Mini-Sessions that are ideally suited for in-house luncheons or organizational meetings. Topics include:
- "Prospective" and "Retrospective" Time Impact Analysis
- The Cumulative Impact of Multiple Change Orders: Good Luck Trying to Prove It!
- Delay and Time Extension Analysis: Contract Requirements vs. The Real World
- A Schedule Delay Analysis Dilemma: What to Do? What to Do? ('Time Impact Analysis' vs. 'As-Planned' to 'As-Built' Schedule Delay Analysis)
- Key Issues Relative to Concurrent Delay and Compensable Delay Claims
- Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling Specifications: The Management Foundation of a Construction Contract
- A Topic of Your Choice!