Project Manager Academy (2-days)

Every dollar, every deadline, every subcontractor, every stakeholder — it all runs through one person: the Project Manager.

Construction Project Managers are responsible for planning, executing, and closing projects, ensuring the full scope is completed safely, on time, and within budget. Successful construction projects are driven by effective project managers who build teams, provide transformational leadership, and navigate complex challenges. The best project managers are effective communicators able to provide closely coupled coordination and seamless resource allocation. However, construction project managers face labor shortages, leadership retirements, material cost escalation, and ever-increasing regulation. Increasing owner and other stakeholder expectations further challenges project managers.

Why This Course Matters
Successful management of construction projects requires technical knowledge and understanding, business acumen, and the proper mindset. It requires balancing technical execution, effective risk management, and transformational human leadership. The simplest construction project requires thoughtful planning and practical scheduling, close-coupled coordination, and implementation of reliable processes. Much of this is developed over time through experience. More importantly, the required knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) are acquired through intentional learning.

What You’ll Learn

• Overview of best practices in construction project management
• Universal principles of construction project management that guide every job to finish on time, safely, within budget, meeting scope and quality requirements, and achieving stakeholder satisfaction
• Navigating complexity and interdependence in the supply chain and project workflow

Who Should Attend

• Professional Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers
• Professionals aspiring to rise to the ranks of project management
• Construction professionals looking to learn best practices or fill in the gaps
• Novices or those new to project management wanting to explore the discipline

What’s In It For You

For the experienced Project Manager and Assistant Project Manager:

• Gain a greater understanding of current best practices that can be applied immediately
• Increase your value to your organization, leadership team, and crews
• Smoothly and consistently delivering projects to your customers and other stakeholders enhances your reputation — the greatest intangible asset that separates you from your competitors, peers, or colleagues

For the prospective Project Manager:

• Explore construction project management as an attractive career path
• Acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes that can be applied immediately, increasing your value to your team or crew and ultimately your employer
• Gain foundational knowledge that serves as a springboard to future knowledge

From the employer’s perspective:

• Develop talent to enhance organizational performance, translating to more projects delivered safely, on time, while earning a profit
• Equip your organization’s front-line leaders to better understand and effectively manage risk
• Increase employee engagement and retention

Ready to Strengthen Your Project Leadership?
Give your Project Managers and rising PMs the tools to lead with confidence, from the field to the finish line.

Course Format & Logistics

• Length: 16 contact hours (two-day course)
• Dates: September 18 & October 2, 2026
• Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM both days
• Location: ABC Allentown Office – 894 Marcon Blvd. Allentown, PA 18109
• Attendance: Must attend both sessions to receive Certificate of Completion

Looking to build leadership across your whole field team? Explore the companion Superintendents Academy, also taught by Bob Muir.

Bob Muir, PhD, PE
Construction Analysts, LLC

Bob Muir brings more than 33 years of construction and engineering experience and 18 years of full-time academia to the classroom, including senior faculty roles at Auburn University, Virginia Tech, and Drexel University. A licensed Professional Engineer, he’s managed heavy civil and infrastructure projects from both the owner’s and contractor’s side of the table, including major bridge replacements and multiple incentive-based highway contracts. He’s no stranger to ABC Eastern PA — he taught for the chapter back in 2007 and has trained construction professionals in leadership, project management, and claims resolution ever since. He’s also a principal with Construction Analysts, LLC, providing expert claims and dispute resolution services. Whatever he teaches, Bob keeps it practical and immediately useful for the jobsite.