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Engineer and QS Planning Skills

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To gain a greater understanding of planning and programming to enable staff to review and challenge. This will include, programme management, creating a programme, activities, logic review, exercise, updating programmes, historical, future exercise, other planning techniques, time change exercise, output graphs, contract activity day measures, exercise, project examples and actions to take away.

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VolkerWessels UK

VolkerWessels UK

VolkerWessels UK is a multi-disciplinary civil engineering and construction group providing integrated engineering solutions. By optimising the specialist skills of our group companies we deliver timely, cost effective services. Our range of skills includes building and heavy civil engineering, rail and highway infrastructure, land reclamation and marine engineering. The company employs over 2,500 staff across the country and brings together best practice through five business units: VolkerFitzpatrick, VolkerRail, VolkerStevin, VolkerHighways and VolkerLaser. Our success is founded on our ability to deliver in challenging environments and regularly winning repeat business from established clients. By utilising the specialist skills of each business within VolkerWessels UK, we are able to provide development to ensure our staff provide unrivalled resources and expertise to our clients.
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