This course is designed to provide municipal works foremen in Nunavut with an introduction to capital planning and the management of projects that involve capital planning.

In the first half of the course, participants will gain a working knowledge of the capital planning process, and the reasons for capital planning.  Participants will also learn how to identify community needs, evaluate the useful life of existing capital assets, determine minimum community requirements, and ensure compatibility between proposed capital projects, program requirements, and existing infrastructure. Methods for prioritizing projects and evaluating future community needs will be presented, as well as methods for estimating capital costs that include O & M values in first-cut 5-year capital plans.

In the second half of the course construction projects are used as examples for studying project management principles and practices.  Participants will learn how projects are managed by learning how to estimate, develop tenders, schedule, and document a project.