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October 23, 2025
"Project Planning for Small Projects " - October 23, 2025
The event to be held on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at the Hyatt Lodge Hotel - Oak Brook, IL.
Hyatt Lodge Hotel - 2815 Jorie Blvd., Oak Brook, IL
"Project Planning for Small Projects"
Mark, Federle, Marquette University - Facilitator
Thursday, October 23, 2025
"Project Planning for Small Projects"
Hyatt Lodge Hotel - 2815 Jorie Blvd., Oak Brook, IL
(Q Room - Seminar / Piazza Area - Breakfast & Lunch)
8:00 am - 4:00 pm (Breakfast & Lunch to be served) -- (Breakfast to be available at 7:45 am)
Mark, Federle, Marquette University - Facilitator
Program description:
Successful execution of all projects, regardless of size, requires proper planning to ensure project profitability. There are a variety of tools and techniques that contractors of all sizes can use to successfully plan their projects. This course will review common forms of schedules, the impact of schedule changes and how to use the schedule to manage the project.
Following this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify scheduling best practices
- Create and differentiate between several different types of project schedules
- Discuss the relationship between the schedule and project management
- Discuss the importance of preplanning
- Identify planning strategies to improve productivity
- Identify activities at each phase of the construction process to preplan
THIS PROGRAM IS ONLY FOR ECA MEMBERS!
Fee for the sessions is $100.00 per ECA member.
Please contact the ECA with any questions at (708) 531-0022. We look forward to your participation with the program! Thank you for your continued support of Association activities.
Mark O. Federle, PE, PhD, CPC, F.ASCE, NAC
Mark Federle is currently the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the OPUS College of Engineering at Marquette University. He has also served as the McShane Chair of Construction Engineering and Management (Professor-in-Charge of the CEMA program), April 2008 – Aug 2016, where he started the first ABET-accredited (as of 2010) Construction Engineering Program. Previously he was Chief Information Officer for The Weitz Company in Des Moines for 9 years. Prior to joining The Weitz Company, Federle was the Professor-in-Charge of Construction Engineering program at Iowa State University, where he taught for nine years. Mark earned his PhD and Masters in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Michigan. He earned a BS in Civil Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Mark is a licensed Professional Engineer, CM-Lean, and a Certified Professional Constructor. He has completed multiple projects for Electri, including a study of Prefabrication and Productivity. He is a frequent presenter at the NECA Show and at various NECA Chapter meetings.
Waitlist Option
If registration is full, you can opt for the waitlist category. If the waitlist category selection does not initially pop up, you may need to re-register. If so, use the non-member section, then click the waitlist category. If there are spots open, you will be notified.
