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Construction Management

Site decisions on live UK construction projects. RIDDOR, Building Safety Act, embodied carbon, NEC4/JCT.

L4 – L7

What you'll decide

Decision categories you'll face

Programme Acceleration
Subcontractor Strategy
Variation Valuation
Site Safety Intervention
Defect Rectification
Procurement Route
Risk Response
Stakeholder Communication

KPIs you'll manage

5 metrics under live pressure

  • 1.Programme Adherence
  • 2.Cost Variance
  • 3.Quality (Defects & Snags)
  • 4.Safety (RIDDOR & Near-Miss)
  • 5.Embodied Carbon

Skills you'll build

What you walk away with

Every Boardroom builds Construction Management judgment AND the universal decision-making skills below.

Construction Management skills

1

Regulatory navigation

Apply Building Safety Act, CDM 2015, and Approved Documents to live site decisions.

2

Site safety leadership

Make 48-hour-window calls on RIDDOR incidents, near-miss escalation, and stop-work.

3

UK contract management

Use NEC4 / JCT compensation events, EOTs, LADs, and PC handover correctly.

4

Sustainability tradeoffs

Balance embodied carbon, BREEAM, and net-zero against cost and programme.

5

Subcontractor strategy

Novation, performance bond, re-tender — make the right call when a subcontractor fails.

6

Procurement route choice

Pick between D&B, Traditional, CM, and GMP for a given project profile.

Plus universal Boardroom skills

Critical evaluation

Spot flawed reasoning even when it comes from a confident expert.

AI literacy

Verify AI output rather than trust it by default — the wrong advisor mechanic IS AI-verification training.

Defended reasoning

Articulate why you made the call under time pressure, not just what you decided.

Multi-axis tradeoffs

Judge decisions across cost, quality, schedule, safety, brand — not just one KPI.

Stakeholder communication

Tell hard news to clients, regulators, and teams without losing credibility.

Ethics under pressure

Hold duties to the public, the firm, and the profession when they pull in different directions.

Frameworks & terminology referenced

What you'll meet in the dilemmas

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Scenarios

Construction Management dilemmas

Hand-picked anchor dilemmas. Click to preview or request the full build.

Construction Management
L4·20 min

Site Sign-Off vs Toolbox Talk

A welder on your crew has skipped the morning toolbox talk three days running. Sign off his start card to keep the schedule, send him to the supervisor, or stop work on his zone?

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Construction Management
L5·20 min

Late Delivery, Subcontractor in a Pickle

Your steel bracket order is delayed 5 days. Switch supplier (£8k premium), accept the delay (LADs risk), or rework the programme sequence and pour the slab first?

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Construction Management
L6·20 min

Day 14: RIDDOR Incident

A scaffold board fails, a worker is injured, HSE is notified. The client wants an update by 17:00. What's the 48-hour response?

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Construction Management
L7·20 min

Cladding Spec, Post-Grenfell

A1 fire-rating costs £380k more than A2. Both are legal. The client is privately keen on A2. You're the Accountable Person under the Building Safety Act.

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Construction Management
L6·20 min

Subcontractor in Administration Mid-Frame

Your steelwork subcontractor goes into administration at 17:00. Their steel is 60% erected. Novate, self-deliver, or trigger the bond?

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Construction Management
L7·20 min

Embodied Carbon Target at Risk

EPDs show a 14% overshoot on the public 600 kgCO₂e/m² cap. Switch supplier, redesign in CLT, or report transparently?

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Construction Management
L7·20 min

Whistleblower on Quality

A junior engineer messages you Friday evening: she believes the cube tests on works you signed off were back-dated. School opens to pupils in September.

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Construction Management
L6·20 min

Site Manager vs Programme Pressure

Your most experienced Site Manager has been signing off works without proper inspection — because of programme pressure you set. Confront, restructure, or reassign?

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Also available as a Standard Sim

Multi-team Construction Management simulation

Multi-team Construction Management simulation in development. Register interest for the pilot cohort.

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Industry settings

Anchored to real sectors

  • ·Residential Development
  • ·Commercial Office Fit-Out
  • ·Healthcare Estates
  • ·Education Estates
  • ·Highways & Rail Infrastructure
  • ·Retrofit & Refurbishment

Industry context

Frameworks our content is informed by

RICSCIOBCABE

The decision categories and vocabulary used in our Construction Management dilemmas are informed by the kinds of topics widely covered in these frameworks. Students preparing for chartership or apprenticeship pathways often find the format useful as independent practice material.

Note: MyEdMentor is independent simulation content. We are not endorsed by, accredited by, or affiliated with any of the named bodies. Their names are referenced here to describe content overlap only.

Player feedback

What learners say

Anonymous post-play ratings from the last 12 months. Public rating shows 4★ and 5★ responses.

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In their words

Amazing simulation, Proper use of the brain. :)
After: Boardroom A: Quality Decisions
Excellent decision-making
After: Resilience & Disruption

Earn

Play well, walk away with

Each Boardroom ends with a credibility score and badges that share to LinkedIn.

🕵️

Detective

Caught every wrong advisor.

🗣️

Sage

Strong rationales for every decision.

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Strategist

All decisions correct.

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Promoted

Hit credibility 70+. Level up.

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