The Association, with the help of developing partners, developed the following series of courses that suit the specific needs of small and medium sized building and civil engineering contractors’ employees and engineering students that join the industry.

1. Guide to submitting qualifying bids: This is a 3 day course that deals with qualifications and technical submission of a successful response to a tender.

 

2. Strategic Pricing for Profit: - a 3 day course which starts where the first course ends. It in particular deals with principles of pricing and bidding to obtain new projects. Many contractors continue to produce ‘guesstimates’ – not estimates – of the project costs, so they either bid high and lose the contract or often even worse, get the work at a price which is below the cost and deliver at losses.

 

3. Construction Site Management: This is also a 3 day course potentially applicable after a profitable contract has been won. This gives one planning skills and enables critical thinking on how one can make a company more profitable by improving productivity on site i.e ‘planning for profit’, scheduling of plants, materials and checking progress and making it happen on site. This course includes a 1 day site visit for handson training.

Past Trainings and beneficiaries

Between 2014 and 2016, UNABCEC under the Crossroads project delivered trainings on ‘Strategic Pricing for Profit’ and ‘Construction Site Management’ courses to over 257 participants in different regions of the country as shown in the table below in descending order of dates.

COURSE	DATE	VENUE	NO. OF PARTICIPANTS
Strategic Pricing for Profit	7th - 9th April 2016	Kati Kati Hotel, Kampala	27
Construction Site Management	23rd - 25th June 2016	Kati Kati Hotel, Kampala	18
Strategic Pricing for Profit	8th - 10th Sept 2016	Silver Springs Hotel, Kampala	25
Construction Site Management	8th - 10th Dec 2016	Silver Springs Hotel, Kampala	23
Strategic Pricing for Profit	25th - 27th April 2015	Lake View Hotel, Mbarara	16
Strategic Pricing for Profit	23th - 25th May 2015	Golden Courts Hotel, Arua	18
Construction Site Management	24th - 26th July 2015	Wash and Wills Hotel, Mbale	16
Construction Site Management	14th - 16th Aug 2015	Hoima Resort Hotel, Hoima	15
Strategic Pricing for Profit	13th - 15th Nov 2015	Silver Springs Hotel, Kampala	24
Strategic Pricing for Profit	23th -25th April 2014	Silver Springs Hotel, Kampala	26
Construction Site Management	14th - 16th June 2014	Silver Springs Hotel, Kampala	30
Construction Site Management	29th – 31st July 2014	Churchill Hotel, Gulu	19
TOTAL			257

Target Audience

1. Construction contractors,
2. Consultants,
3. Local governments,
4. Higher institutions of learning,
5. Ministries and Government Agencies,
6. Graduates/Students of Construction related courses 

Trainers

The Association has a total of twenty-two (22) certified trainers who have undergone a ‘Generic Training of Trainers’ course that was conducted by an international expert trainer under Crossroads Program in April 2014 and have further undergone a series of top up trainings to assist in preparing and running seminars and workshops to the entire public. These trainers are construction professionals some of whom are owners or employees of construction firms engaged in actual construction.