Emerging Professional

This course looks at factors attributing to the safe design, construction, use, maintenance and removal of temporary works. Useful to engineers and managers working in the construction sector, the course will cover New Zealand Law, industry good practice, procedural control, basic design theory, and awareness modules for each of the most common forms of temporary works. Please scroll down for more information.

Co-presented by an engineer and a lawyer, this course will consider both the law and its application as well as how to best avoid and manage those liabilities and maximise insurance benefits.

Much of the work done by engineers involves managing, reading and even drafting contracts. In this course we introduce the principles that regulate contractual relationships, with a focus on construction and engineering contracts.

In the course of your working day, you probably spend a few hours writing. Most of us write scores of emails a day. Many of us write longer reports. This live online course provides simple tips that can be immediately used to improve your writing.

This live online course covers the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, and will provide a sound grounding in HSWA duties and responsibilities. The course covers both general duties on PCBUs and upstream duties on those carrying out design, manufacture or importing.

Risk is a universal phenomenon that affects all people in all activities that they may undertake. This course introduces a structured approach for the identification, planning, treatment and management of risk in an engineering context. Delegates will learn a structured approach to the risk management process.

Many practitioners who have to manage projects have never been formally exposed to a structured “big picture” of project management. This course aims to present a structured and coherent way of accepted best practice principles used to define, plan and execute projects.

Risk is a universal phenomenon that affects all people in all activities that they may undertake. This course introduces a structured approach for the identification, planning, treatment and management of risk in an engineering context. Delegates will learn a structured approach to the risk management process.

Much of the work done by engineers involves managing, reading and even drafting contracts. In this online course we introduce the principles that regulate contractual relationships, with a focus on construction and engineering contracts.

Our new Producer Statements and supplementary documents will significantly improve quality assurance and administrative processes for engineers and BCAs. Online forms will allow for real-time updates, cross-population of fields and consistency across authorities – for better and faster consenting processes. Our documents are in draft and we want you feedback.

This online course covers the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) and will provide a sound grounding in HSWA duties and responsibilities. The course covers both general duties on Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBUs) and upstream duties on those carrying out design, manufacture or importing.

This course covers the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) and will provide a sound grounding in HSWA duties and responsibilities. The course covers both general duties on Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBUs) and upstream duties on those carrying out design, manufacture or importing.

Specifications are critical to the clear communication of technical requirements to contractors. This communication is specific to the stage in the design cycle, type of requirement and the particular industry sector. Delegates will learn the elements of a “good” specification that is universally applicable.

People new to team leadership often focus on tasks and end-goals – but how do they develop into leaders that motivate and inspire their team to deliver those end-goals? This course provides people with space to look at the team leader role, examining leadership styles and the characteristics that are needed to lead teams to success.

A team leader who shares their workload within a team is more likely to be achieve success than someone who can’t delegate effectively – so how does this critical managerial skill work, and what are the best ways to do it? This course provides people with a range of practical tools they need to successfully delegate tasks, and delegation approaches to use to realise a team’s full potential.

An expectation of engineers is that they can negotiate with stakeholders to coordinate efforts. But how can you convince people with diverse goals and backgrounds to secure willing collaboration and achieve a great outcome? In this course we will consider ethical and practical ways that will improve your ability to influence stakeholders’ perceptions and to persuade them to take goal-directed initiatives.

Co-facilitated by an engineer and a lawyer, this online course focuses on an engineers’ potential liabilities, and how they can best manage these in an ever-increasing litigious world. The course will consider the legal framework within which engineers are required to operate, and at a practical and technical level what they need to do to manage their risk both financially and reputationally.

With increased construction activities in the past few years, the demand for more complex retaining walls and other ground retention systems has grown significantly. This course introduces the general concepts and principles of the design and construction of embedded retaining walls such as sheet pile walls, soldier pile walls and timber pole walls.

With increased construction activities in the past few years, the demand for more complex retaining walls and other ground retention systems has grown significantly. This course introduces the general concepts and principles of the design and the construction of gravity retaining walls such as cantilevered reinforced concrete walls, block walls and crib walls.

With increased construction activities in the past few years, the demand for more complex retaining walls and other ground retention systems has grown significantly. This course introduces the general concepts and principles of the design and the construction of gravity retaining walls such as reinforced concrete walls, block walls and crib walls.