Integrated Project Management - Cambridge, MA

Harvard Design School presents:

Project Management is a core skill for every successful architect, planner, consultant, contractor, or project owner. Projects need to be delivered on time, within budget, and at a high quality standard. Integrated Project Management (IPM) is the latest, state-of-the-art definition of the industry. The IPM Harvard executive education intense two-day seminar will address the need for a broader, holistic, effective, and efficient leadership to manage resources, teams of Architects & Contractors and budgetary constraints, together with innovation in software and collaborative technology. In today’s competitive and recessionary environment, creating success requires a comprehensive approach that is beyond IPD, LEAN, CM, and other delivery methods. Along with other Harvard Executive Education colleagues, participants will be immersed with tools and concepts of the widely successful Integrated Project Management delivery method approach, beginning from the basic to advanced realistic issues. Case studies in this course will range from public and private project—both at the small, medium, and large scale, at the individual building, and at the mixed-use community development level—both from US and international contexts. Learning Objectives: Master key project management principles: - The project life cycle and key other project delivery method (IPD, LEAN, Design Build) - Alignment of roles and responsibilities for all players - Achieving total project scheduling and budgeting Establish a solid foundation on: - Team motivation (concept, strategies, tools, implementation) - Team selection (pre-qualification, RFP, comparison matrix) - Team and sub team management and leadership Recognize risks and uncertainties and their effective management process. The program is intended for architects, planners, engineers, contractors, facility managers, project managers, and building owners and developers. Instruction will explore these issues through lectures, in-depth case studies of real projects, and skill-building simulations. Participants may combine this program with other offerings from Harvard GSD Executive Education. The Instructor team: Andreas Georgoulias Lecturer, Harvard Design School Anthony Mason FRICS President, AMA Project Management Samuel Kuo Project Manager, AMA Project Management

Date: July 7 - 8, 2011

Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Register today at http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exec_ed/details.cgi?offering_id=102047

Tuition $1050.00
AIA/CES units: 14 AIA/CES HSW units: No AIA/CES SD units: No
AICP units: 14
ASLA units: 14 ASLA HSW units: No

About our speakers: Academic Leader Georgoulias, Andreas Andreas Georgoulias is a lecturer in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Dr. Georgoulias is a registered architect in the EU, and apart from his design and development practice in Athens, he has collaborated with Arsis Architects and Obermeyer Planen+Beraten GmbH. As a site engineer he worked with Hochtief in the New Athens International Airport, the largest construction project in Europe at the time. To expand his understanding of the complexities of mega-projects, he worked in the Transportation & Public-Private Partnerships group of UniCredit. While in the United States, Andreas has collaborated as independent consultant with several private firms and governmental agencies such as the General Services Administration of the U.S. federal government at its Public Building Services program, as well as with a major Middle East real estate development company and an Asian oil and telecom conglomerate in a major new city development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Andreas holds a five-year professional degree in Architecture Engineering (with distinction) from the National Technical University of Athens, and a Master in Design Studies and a Doctor of Design from Harvard. Instructors Kuo, Samuel Samuel Kuo, Project Manager, AMA Project Management. As Project Manager for AMA PM, a Los Angeles based project management consulting company, Samuel Kuo has successfully project managed/delivered numerous building projects using the Initial Guaranteed Maximum Price IGMP method, which guarantees a construction cost based on "intent of design" using schematic design documents, assembles a complete responsible project team early and aligns goals of each team member, and which was also the core for his master's degree thesis. A sampling of his projects include the DreamWorks Animation Lakeside Annex building, Extron Office Building, Goals Soccer Center Facility, and New Community Jewish High School relocation and building re-use/modification. His responsibilities include project management, planning, design, scheduling of construction projects as the owner representative on the team. Kuo holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California and a Master in Design Studies with a focus on Real Estate Development and Project Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mason, Anthony Anthony Mason is the founding principal of AMA Project Management, an independent nine-person firm established in 1984 in Los Angeles whose primary focus is the project management of high-end, complex commercial projects. Mason worked as a UN Consultant on the project management of Capital Expenditures Projects in Malawi, Central Africa, and has worked in Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Macao, and the UK, as well as throughout the United States. Mason's projects include master planning of the DreamWorks Campus, Sony Picture Campus, Loyola Marymount University Campus, while notable Los Angeles projects include the Four Seasons Hotel, Bacara Resort and Spa, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Regent Beverly Wilshire, Loews Hotel, several Warner Bros./ Warner Music / Warner Records projects, Endeavor and William Morris Talent Agencies and numerous OSHPD projects for Kaiser Permanente and the Jewish Homes for the Aging. Other projects include postproduction facilities for Four Media/Liberty Media/Ascent Media, Telepictures TV Studio and animation studios for DreamWorks, Warner Bros., and Sony Imageworks. Mr. Mason has developed the Initial Guaranteed Maximum Price / IGMP method, a comprehensive, holistic project delivery method which he implemented for over 25 years and over 200 projects. He is a frequent speaker on this subject and was a guest lecturer on Harvard GSD Project Management courses. Mason believes the solution to specific industry and project delivery problems is not to reorganize/refocus the traditional team and its traditional process but to restructure the processes and practices, and to develop procedures that effectively align the profession's work practices procedures and roles needed. Mr. Mason holds a bachelor's degree in construction, a master's degree in architecture, and was elected to Fellowships in the Royals Institute of Chartered Surveyors, the Chartered Institute of Building and the Institute of Management. He also was a tenured faculty member at Westminster University and taught at Bartlett School or Architecture and Planning/UCL, London.