Project Delivery, Contracts and Negotiation
Delivering data center projects: delivery models, contracts, procurement, risk, scheduling, cost control, supply chain, and negotiation with contractors, utilities, municipalities and communities.
DCE-470 Year 4 3 credits 12 lessons · 4 h 53 min
Offered by HSM University · Data Center Engineering
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain what makes data center projects distinctive, the project life cycle and gates, stakeholders, governance and the cost of delay
- Compare design-bid-build, CM, design-build, progressive design-build, IPD and EPCM, and select a delivery model with weighted criteria
- Explain pricing arrangements and standard contract families, and evaluate key clauses including changes, liquidated damages and payment protection
- Plan procurement strategy, prequalification and evaluation, and apply the legal framework of tendering fairly and ethically
- Manage risk with registers and Monte Carlo contingency, allocate risk sensibly, and use insurance, bonds and delay rules
- Build and analyze CPM schedules, identify the critical path in power-constrained projects, and compress schedules effectively
- Prepare estimates by class, structure complete project budgets, and control cost with forecasts and earned value
- Secure long-lead equipment through procurement strategies, order-date calculations, expediting, logistics and tariff allocation
- Prepare for and conduct negotiations using interests, BATNA, ZOPA, integrative trade-offs, anchoring and ethical practice
- Negotiate large-load connections and power supply with utilities, including ramp schedules and minimum demand exposure
- Manage approvals, evaluate incentives, and engage municipalities and communities through enforceable commitments
- Manage claims and disputes, decide on settlement with decision analysis, close out projects, and produce a project delivery plan
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 53 min total · final exam
- 1 Data center projects and the project life cycle 24 min · quiz
- 2 Project delivery models 25 min · quiz
- 3 Construction contracts: AIA and ConsensusDocs documents and key clauses 25 min · quiz
- 4 Procurement and tendering 25 min · quiz
- 5 Risk allocation, contingency, insurance and bonds 25 min · quiz
- 6 Planning and scheduling 24 min · quiz
- 7 Cost estimating and cost control 24 min · quiz
- 8 Supply chain and long-lead equipment 25 min · quiz
- 9 Negotiation principles and preparation 25 min · quiz
- 10 Negotiating with utilities and power suppliers 24 min · quiz
- 11 Municipalities, permits, incentives and communities 24 min · quiz
- 12 Claims, disputes, closeout and capstone project 23 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Delivering data center projects: delivery models, contracts, procurement, risk, scheduling, cost control, supply chain, and negotiation with contractors, utilities, municipalities and communities.
Part of the Engineering stream, typically taken in year 4.