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16-Civ-B8 Management of Construction

16-Civ-B8 Management of Construction is a civil Group B exam about running construction work rather than designing it. It covers how the Canadian industry is organized, how projects are delivered, estimated and scheduled, and how safety, quality, labour and contracts are managed through to disputes.

Planned for wave 2.

Also written 16 Civ B8; papers set before 2017 use the older code 98-Civ-B8.

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By the CertNova team. Updated .

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What it covers

  • Size and structure of Canada's design and construction sectors
  • Project delivery methods, project management and organizational form
  • Site investigation
  • Estimating and bidding
  • Project planning, scheduling and control, and activity planning
  • Safety practices and regulations, including the health and safety act of the province or territory you are applying in
  • Insurance, quality assurance and quality control
  • Labour relations, contract administration and litigation

On exam day

  • Closed book, with no aids (EGBC Fall 2026 schedule).
  • Any non-communicating, non-programmable calculator.
  • Written online and remotely proctored. EGBC's candidate guide describes a 15-minute grace period at the start and up to 30 minutes after the exam to upload your written solutions.

Texts the syllabus names

  • K. Knutson, C. Schexnayder, C. Fiori and R. Mayo, Construction Management Fundamentals
  • The health and safety act of the province or territory you are applying in (Engineers Canada's list)

What we are building

  • Lessons that will tie each syllabus topic to the decisions a project team makes
  • Original problems on estimating, bidding and scheduling, each with a worked solution
  • Written-answer practice for the delivery, contract, safety and labour topics
  • Two closed-book timed mocks that will be marked by topic

Most tested, 2013 to 2019

Across 14 sittings from May 2013 to December 2019, every paper offered six 20-mark questions and candidates answered five. Every paper had an engineering economics question (17% of the marks) although the syllabus does not name it, scheduling with CPM or PERT also came up every time (17%), and safety (14%) and estimating and bidding (14%) came next; quality assurance, site investigation and industry structure never appeared.

From 14 sittings and 84 questions of the papers EGBC published. Statistics only: we do not reproduce the questions.

16-Civ-B8 topics by share of marks on offer, May 2013 to December 2019
TopicSittingsShare of marks
Engineering economics for construction decisions14 of 1416.7%
Planning and scheduling: CPM, PERT, activity planning14 of 1416.7%
Safety practices and regulations12 of 1414.3%
Estimating and bidding11 of 1414.1%
Project control: cost, progress and earned value10 of 1411.2%
Contract administration: changes, claims, payment12 of 148.6%
Project delivery methods and contracts6 of 146.2%
Litigation and dispute resolution8 of 144.5%
Insurance and bonding5 of 143.6%
Equipment and labour productivity2 of 142.4%

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