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Project Management for Engineers course
Learn how to deliver projects on time, on budget, and with a happy customer
Welcome to the Project Management for BMS Engineers course
This course will teach you how to deliver BMS projects on time, on budget, and with a happy customer. I know that sounds impossible in the current market, but I did it 33 out of 33 times over 4 years when I was a BMS project manager.
This course steps through the exact process that I perfected over 4 years. When something went wrong, I updated my process so it wouldn’t happen again. I was obsessed with success and making money. After a couple of years of finding my way, I had generated over $90,000 in pure profit over and above all my projects forecasted margins.
Self-paced online training course.
About 3h50m of audio lessons (about 39 lessons).
Done-for-you Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet templates.
One-off payment.
Lifetime access (for as long as the training business exists).
BMS Companies exist to make money!
BMS companies do not exist for fun; like all companies, they exist to make money. The person who started your company 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago, do you think they got a bank loan against their mortgage because they thought it would be fun? No… they took that risk because they saw an opportunity to make money.
I find it surprising that, although the end goal is to make money, we don’t intentionally train our engineers and managers on how to make money. Let me give you three examples:
1. Learning on the job
Most BMS engineers get promoted into project management with zero formal training. They learn on the job through trial and error. That learning curve causes rework and financial losses. For some reason, that learning curve has become acceptable in our industry. I don’t understand. If I owned a BMS company, there would be no way I’d be fine with new project managers messing up their first few projects.
2. Profitability
One of the worst things that can happen as a project manager is when you realise 3 months before handover that the project is not going to make the $200,000 profit it was forecast to make, and it’s now too late to fix. Good luck with telling your boss that your failure is going to bring down the branch’s numbers, and make them look bad. I will teach you how to see financial losses months before they become a problem, so that you have time to fix them.
3. Cash flow
Most engineers don't think about cash flow; they think about delivering good technical work. Maintaining a positive cash flow from month one takes planning and dedication. When you do not have positive cash flow, your company needs to borrow money to fund the project, which costs real money.
“The strong engineering skills that impressed your manager and got you promoted are not transferable to project management. Sorry about that, but you are going to have a hard time, just like I did. Believe me, financial success on projects does not happen on its own. It takes hard work, dedication and professionalism”
Bryce Anderson
For the first 15 years of my career (1998-2013), I worked for BMS companies (2 years in South Africa, 9 years in London, and 4 years in Australia). For the next +10 years (from 2014 onwards), I have worked as a BMS specialist consultant. I originally studied electronic engineering, specialising in process instrumentation and controls.
In my consulting business (80% of my working week), I am designing (writing specifications), reviewing BMS contractor technical submissions, witnessing and signing off BMS projects from all major BMS systems and a wide range of different BMS companies, from global tier-1 manufacturers to smaller system integrators.
This puts me in a unique situation where I have visibility into what everyone is doing. The experience I share in the membership is made up from my own personal 15 years designing BMS systems, writing software code, commissioning, service and project management (across 3 different regions), plus the best parts of what the industry is providing.
This exposure to the wider industry allows me to provide customised training courses that not only teach the technical side of the BMS but also address current real-life issues and constraints in the Building Management System industry.
I am not just teaching you what I learned, but the best of what everyone else is doing.
Course contents
15 Chapters, 71 lessons
Welcome to the course!
Downloads
Project Set-up
Financial Management
Project Program
Design Management
Procurement Management
Engineering Management
Installation Management
Commissioning Management
Witnessing
Risk Management
Stakeholder Management
Project Close
Finished!
Course Details
Self-paced online course.
About 39 audio lessons (3h50m).
About 32 text lessons
Done-for-you Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet templates.
One-off payment.
Lifetime access (for as long as the training business exists).
AU$ 249 - Australian dollars
Need group training? Contact me to discuss.
Do not leave your career up to your employer
Some people believe their company should pay for their training and allocate time during the working day to do the courses. Let’s unpack this for a minute.
Your company is already paying for your salary, leave pay, sick pay, laptop, mobile phone, car, uniform, and other benefits. They also have other overheads, like office rent, utilities, insurance, administration staff, etc. They pay for other types of non-technical training (health and safety, etc.), AND they pay for product training (5-day programming course, etc.).
I think that is enough. Why should they also pay for your personal professional development? Company managers, feel that you should contribute to your own personal growth, invest in your own career, and I agree.
We work for money. To buy nice things. To live in a nice house. To have nice holidays. It’s up to us, it’s up to YOU, to invest in YOUR career. Why on earth would your employer invest extra time and money, over and above what they are already investing in you, so that you can double your salary? YOU need to invest in your career to double your salary.
BMS Companies generally teach their engineers how to use the engineering tools. How to write software code, build database, and create graphics, etc.
It’s not 1995, product training alone is no longer enough.
We need to raise the profile of BMS companies and their engineers.
Our courses build on the product training provided by BMS companies to develop engineers into professionals who justify repeat work, earn higher fees, and drive business growth.
