Symmons Madge Associates Ltd.
Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Exeter, Glasgow, Slough, United Kingdom
http://www.symmonsmadge.co.uk/

Soils,Trenching, Excavations and Piling

A 1 day practical course covering a wide variety of site geotechnical issues. Course Objectives To raise awareness of practical geotechnical issues on site. To help prevent accidents and provide practical, safe and economic solutions to typical site problems. To allow delegates to coordinate and supervise common site geotechnical activities. Course Outline: Gathering and interpretin......
 

The course is designed to make delegates aware of the roles and responsibilities of the Engineer’s site staff, in particular the role of the Resident Engineer and Assistant Resident Engineer, based on the ICE Conditions of Contract. Where appropriate reference is made to other forms of contract, particularly the NEC. The course will concentrate on site organization, the role of the Resi......
 

This course will make delegates aware of the roles and responsibilities of site staff operating under the New Engineering Contract (NEC), in particular the role of the Client and the Contractor. Aims & Objectives: This course is aimed at giving your delegates a thorough understanding of how the NEC works and the principles underpinning it. After this course, your delegates will be able t......
 

Course Outline: Legal responsibilities Conditions of hire Inspection and maintenance Mobile cranes, crawler cranes and tower cranes Working platforms for tracked plant and haul roads Piling equipment Controlling groundwater Access equipment Earthmoving and compaction equipment ...
 

The use of piles, both as load bearing elements and for retaining structures, is explored in this one-day comprehensive course. Practical applications, installation methods and safety aspects are examined together with guidance on choosing a suitable pile type, simple design approaches and testing. The course content is supplemented with practical group exercises, videos and an assessment. ......
 

One of the primary reasons why projects fail to deliver to cost and programme relates to changes (both planned and un-planed) occurring. Everyone in the project team has a part to play in controlling change and Project Managers have a particular responsibility for ensuring effective change management processes are implemented on their projects. Change takes many forms; it has varied sources ......
 

Specialist Sub-Contractors exist for every trade within the Construction Industry and as such they form a large proportion of a Contractor’s expenditure on a project. It is essential that companies therefore manage these resources in an effective and cost efficient manner to ensure a satisfactory outcome to the project. Course Objectives / Aims & Learning Outcomes: Learning Outcomes ......
 

Lean Planning is a collaborative approach to programming and control in construction, incorporating Lean principles. Lean Construction, including Lean Planning is the application of Manufacturing Lean Production principles to Construction. Lean Production aims to improve value by: eliminating (or at least minimizing) waste - non value-adding activities and improving their reliability; im......
 

Lean Planning is a proven team based approach to preparing and meeting realistic schedules and on-time delivery for both design phase and construction phases. The approach draws upon Lean Construction, which is the application of Manufacturing Lean Production principles to Construction. The course outlines the key features of Lean Construction and Lean Planning and then, through a series of......
 

Lean processes have been used in Manufacturing for many years to remove waste and drive the progress towards world class performance of leading companies such as Toyota and BMW. Construction may be a different industry with different methods of working but there are many opportunities for applying the lean approaches. Where Lean has been applied in construction, it has achieved substantial impr......
 

2 day course to improve knowledge of construction materials. At least 1 year of construction experience is required of delegates. Course Objectives: To improve knowledge of material properties. How to order, offload, store, handle and check common construction materials. Course Outline: Steelwork Properties of steel, ordering, offloading and storage of steel on site Safe Stee......
 

To provide a good understanding of Minipiling in the UK & Ireland, including the design processes, plant details and construction issues. Course Outline Introduction & history of minipiling Site investigation information & what to look for + exercise Geotechnical design of minipiles + exercise Structural design of minipiles including force transfer mechanism at pile head + exercise ......
 

The five-day training course is designed around a core of lectures supported by visual aids, which explain the essentials of concrete technology and construction. Printed notes serve as points of reference for future use. Demonstrations, practical workshops and site visits are programmed to reinforce the theoretical studies and overnight syndicate exercises assist in the development of teamwork......
 

Buildability is the provision of construction details and materials, which simplify the construction process. Buildability should be considered at every stage of the construction process, including the construction itself, maintenance, alteration and ultimate demolition. Achieving buildability will help reduce construction costs and the likelihood of claims. It will also help to achieve complia......
 

This course is aimed at Visual Basic 6 users who wish to explore the product in more depth, and to develop complex applications. The concepts of modular design for large scale programming projects is covered, together with advanced data access topics, file manipulation and calling Windows procedures. Course Outline: Object Variables Modules Class Modules Multiple-Form Applications C......
 

This course is designed to introduce the more experienced delegate to the further advanced features of PowerPoint. This will include more in-depth features such as O.L.E. (Object Linking & Embedding), to creating links to other packages in the Microsoft Office suite. It also covers how to tailor the package to your own requirements. Course Objectives: To provide current users, who have a sou......
 

This is an introductory course to Microsoft Excel and assumes little of no previous knowledge of this powerful spreadsheet. The course does, however, assume that the delegate has previous knowledge and/or experience in the use of a PC and Microsoft Windows. Course Objectives: To provide delegates with a basic working knowledge of this powerful spreadsheet. The course is designed to meet thes......
 

This intensive course is designed to introduce new Microsoft Access programmers to features and facilities of the VBA programming language; to encourage confidence, control and creative use of Microsoft Access by taking a structured look at VBA within desktop database environment; to help developers plan their applications systematically, efficiently and economically; to promote good design and......
 

This course is designed to introduce users to database concepts and principles. Basic use of the Access interface are covered to provide users with an overview of the programs capabilities and on to create a simple database, forms to input into these tables, use queries to extract specific data and create reports to output the stored information Course Outline: Database Concepts Files, F......
 

This course provides the delegate with a broad knowledge of the features of Microsoft Project, and its place within the overall management of a project. Course Outline: Project Basics What is a Project? Project Control Planning a Project Program Basics Starting the Program The MS Project Working Screen Opening an Existing Project File Creating a New Project Saving a Pr......
 

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