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Planning & Claims qualifications

Like construction, planning is not hide-bound by qualifications, indeed qualifications are rarely essential for a specific position, with practical experience much more important. However, the majority of Planning Engineers, Project Control Specialists and Claims Planners tend to have a relevant academic qualification, often backed up by membership of one or more of a variety of institutes.

 

Academic qualifications

 

The following academic qualifications are all well respected by the planning community:

 

·          BSc Hons in Project Management

·          BSc in Mechanical Engineering

·          HNC in Mechanical & Production Engineering

·          MBA (specialising in Strategic Change Management)

·          MSc / LLB / LLM in Construction Law

·          MSc / BSc in Construction

·          MSc / BSc in Civil Engineering

·          MSc / BSc in Construction Engineering & Management

·          MSc / BSc in Risk & Construction Management

·          MSc / BSc in Building Engineering and Management

·          MSc / BSc in Engineering Design of Buildings

·          BEng in Civil Engineering

·          Diploma in Arbitration

·          Postgraduate Certificate in Arbitration

·          Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration

·          LLM in International Dispute Management

·          LLM in Commercial Dispute Resolution

·          Contract Law and Dispute Management

·          CIOB Law & Economics

·          CIOB Core Studies

·          HNC in Building

·          ONC in Building

 

Universities and other academic institutions with especially good reputations for construction, planning, arbitration and related courses include:

 

Aberdeen Business School

www.rgu.ac.uk      

Birmingham

www.bham.ac.uk

Central Lancashire

www.uclan.ac.uk

College of Estate Management

www.cem.ac.uk

Derby

www.derby.ac.uk

Dundee

www.dundee.ac.uk

Kings College London

www.kcl.ac.uk

Kingston

www.kingston.ac.uk

Leeds University

www.leeds.ac.uk

Leeds Metropolitan

www.lmu.ac.uk

London Guildhall

www.lgu.ac.uk

Manchester

www.manchester.ac.uk

Newbury College of Further Education

www.newbury-college.ac.uk

Nottingham Trent

www.ntu.ac.uk

Queen Mary, University of London

www.ccls.edu

Robert Gordon University

www.rgu.ac.uk

Salford

www.salford.ac.uk

Strathclyde

www.strath.ac.uk

 

Planning training courses

 

A number of companies offer training courses specifically focused on planning, including:

 

·         Milestone Training - www.milestoneuk.com

·         Forge Trackwww.forgetrack.co.uk

·         Richard Palmer Consultancy – www.richardpalmerconsultancy.com

 

Courses include:

 

·         Introduction to Project Management

·         Planning & Scheduling with Primavera P3 - Milestone Training Course 601

·         Resource & Cost Analysis with Primavera P3 - Milestone Training Course 602

·         Managing Project Data with P3 - course P603 at Forge Track Ltd (London)

 

Industry memberships

 

Industry memberships are of importance in the planning & claims and related industries, especially given the fact that memberships have a direct impact on insurance cover – both liability and general insurance. Memberships are offered by a number of industry bodies, including:

 

·         Association of Project Management  (APM)

·         Project Management Institute (PMI)

·         Planning Engineers Organisation (PEO)

·         Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)

·         Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE)

·         Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

·         Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

·         Institute of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

·         Institute of Electrical Technicians (IET)

·         Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

·         Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE)

·         London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)

·         Society of Construction Law (SCL)

·         The Adjudication Society

·         Association Independent Construction Adjudications (AICA)

·         British Association of Lawyer Mediators

·         The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

·         The Academy of Experts

·         King's College Construction Law Association (KCCLA)

 

For more information on any of these industry bodies, simply click on the relevant link.

 

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