Training

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

This class is designed for Engineers, Project Managers, Contractors and Site Owners who want their projects to finish on time and stay in budget while maintaining high-level quality that meets or exceeds regulatory requirements.

This class covers topics such as:

• Pre-Construction processes that ensure better projects
• Geosynthetic Project Management & Quality Assurance – Inventory thru Final Walk-Thru
• Field Observation Skills: Learning to quickly identify construction issues in real-time is a key to successful projects. This class teaches core skills that Project Managers can use to very quickly identify what is really happening on their projects.
• Quick but effective documentation systems are the key to ensure billing, regulatory compliance and liability control are all properly managed.
• Weather situations: Weather is one of the largest impacts on geosynthetic construction timelines. Properly managed construction practices can greatly reduce the impact of weather on timelines and budgets. These practices also ensure the subcontractor is fully responsible for the consequences of failing to implement proper procedures.
• Common Preventable failures. Certain unnecessary errors are all too common which cost owners and contractors significantly over the life of a project. Learn how to prevent these errors from invading your job site.

AUDITING

CQA Solutions, Ltd (CQAS) is excited to now offer a brand new training platform designed to help you or your team perform your own audits during construction.  This class is geared specifically towards those already familiar with construction processes who want to gain peace-of-mind that their containment and geosynthethic projects are being performed properly, such as:  Site Owners, Site Managers, Regulators, Certifying Engineers, and Construction Managers.   

Why perform a site audit?  To ensure the work is being done properly in real-time so construction issues can still be mitigated in a timely and cost-effective manner.  Fixing problems after project completion is costly! Auditing provides significant long-term financial returns by alleviating problems that can cost small fortunes (not to mention bad publicity) down the road.  As an owner, you deserve a quality job and not the headaches of costly failures.

Why perform an audit now? Right now, there is a significant shortage of trained people, in both installation, and quality assurance professions (engineers and technicians).  Installation crews are filled with untrained personnel who significantly increase the risk for long-term problems and that risk is exponentially increased when untrained quality assurance personnel are overseeing the construction.

How does the audit work?

Class formats: 

• Join us in our offices for an intensive two-day hands-on class that covers material delivery through project end.
• Mobile Solutions will bring the training right to your door.  We can offer our standard two-day class at your offices or project locations.  Optionally, we can follow the class with actual field auditing or side-by-side auditing at the job of your choice.
• Side-by-side audits.  This training option allows your staff the option of being trained while we do an actual audit of your project.  We will share our process and insights in real-time for a great hands-on-training program.

Topics covered in this training:

• Earthwork Contractor – having the earthwork performed properly helps ensure that the system has the proper foundation in place, mitigates leaks, minimizes potential geosynthetics damage and gives peace-of-mind you won’t be dealing with a slope failure as the result of poorly bonded lifts.
  • Borrow Areas
  • Lift Placement
  • Lift Compaction
  • Lift Maintenance
  • Subgrade Preparation

• Geosynthetics Installation – ensuring the geosynthetics contractor is properly performing the installation tasks is essential to the long-term viability of the system.  If not done properly, things that were seemingly done correctly may propagate into a nightmare sometime in the future.
  • Common safety
  • Daily safety/tailgate meetings
  • Inventory management and control
  • Material handling and storage methods
    • Identifying inferior material through conformance test results and visual field indicators
  • Deployment methods
    • Proper ballast
    • Minimizing the amount of both fusion seams and extrusion welding
  • Equipment set-up
  • Trial Seams
    • Identifying inferior seams and problematic seams
  • Field Seaming
    • Special concerns for leak location surveys and conductive backed sheet
  • Non-Destructive Seam Testing
    • Using the data to your benefit
  • Destructive Sampling
    • End coupons
    • Procedures and protocols for ensuring quality
    • Failure Rates
  • Repairs
    • Special concerns for leak location surveys and conductive backed sheet
  • Final Walk Thru
  • Contractor Efficiency

• CQA Firms – probably the best investment an owner can make towards ensuring their system properly contains throughout the lifetime and post-closure periods. Not all CQA technicians are created equally and knowing the difference can save the owner millions of dollars in the future. If they don’t know what they are doing, they might as well not be there.
  • How to evaluate the knowledge, experience, and overall quality of the CQA firm

• Ancillary Items
  • Communication between all parties
  • Planning/coordination between all parties
  • Deliverables – daily, weekly, monthly deliverables that should be required of all parties if they are truly doing their job

This course covers all stages of ensuring a quality geomembrane installation.

Topics

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Systems & Protocols that yield consistent quality
• Keys to Success
• Tricks of the Trade
• Management Processes
• Insightful Real Life Lessons
• Documentation
• Safety

Highlights

• Interactive sessions
• Real life Project Samples: Failures & Successes
• Coursework covers material for all experience levels

The course has allocated substantial Q&A session time. It is vitally important that participants are able to understand how the class relates to their specific role and it’s challenges.

Everyone on a jobsite should take this training:

• field techs
• engineers
• installers
• QA
• regulatory agencies
• site owners

To provide Engineers, Project Managers, Contractors, Installers and Site Owners with the knowledge, tools and best practices needed to ensure geosynthetics are installed as safely as possible on their projects.

Our vision is to see everyone arrive home each day in the same condition they left. To accomplish this objective, the class starts with a safety exercise sure to “hit home” with the students then moves into properly preparing for a field assignment, the fundamental hazards associated with the field and the common ways to avoid them.

After the fundamentals are covered, we look at all the activities associated with a geosynthetic installation as well as some of the incidental activities that may be going on as well and identify key safety concerns for each activity – uncommon hazards (those seen only on select projects) are also identified.

The course includes:

• Fundamentals
• Geosynthetics Standard & Specialized PPE
• Common Hazards
• Hazard Prevention
• Introduction to Geosynthetic Specific JHA’s
• Safety in all aspects of Installations: Material Inventory thru Final Walk Thru

Students will perform a work along for each module, learning not only how to identify these concerns, but filling out a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) where they determine how to prevent these activities through the use of audio-visual aids such as videos, photographs, and other relevant materials.

Each student completing the class should take away a better appreciation for the safety challenges present in the field and the fundamentals for overcoming them and the tools to perform their own project safety audits.

Note: This class should not be confused with, substitute, replace, supersede any other required safety class, program, or OSHA class/certification.