This course is designed to provide those who understand coating fundamentals with an overview of the principles of planning, awarding, and monitoring the quality of new construction or maintenance painting projects. After completing this training program, students will be familiar with tools to develop effective coating projects and play a more active role in managing painting projects to successful completion.

• Roles and Responsibilities of Contracting Parties
• Specifications for Coatings Projects
• Preparing, Awarding, and Managing Coating Contracts
• Quality Management
• New Construction and Maintenance Painting
• Economic Considerations for Industrial Coating Projects
• Coating Failures – Causes, Identification, and Analysis
• Safety and Environmental Concerns for Owners and Coating Contractors

After attending this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the key issues in managing a coatings project, including contracts, specifications, coating selection, and the roles of project participants
• Analyze and prepare a coating specification through the use of corporate engineering standards
• Recognize the cost of corrosion and select materials to mitigate it
• Estimate accurately in project cost analysis
• Define scheduling requirements, exposure environments, and coating systems for new construction
• Conduct facility condition surveys and analyses for maintenance painting
• Apply documentation methods during project administration
• Recognize coating failures
•  Identify and comply with relevant environmental regulations

Each participant will receive a comprehensive manual that includes a glossary of terms, references for additional reading, and copies of relevant handouts, standards, and regulations as well as an overview of the coating fundamentals covered in SSPC’s C1 course. Students can refer to this overview as needed during the C2 course for a refresher. Topics covered in this course assume a knowledge of the fundamentals.

The written exam consists of 100 multiple-choice questions. To receive a certificate and CEUs, you must attend all 40 hours of the course and attain a 70% or better score on the exam.

Contractors, engineers, inspectors, consultants, facility owners, technical service and sales reps.

Attendees of this course are assumed to have completed Fundamentals of Protective Coatings (C1) or an equivalent body of knowledge. C2 is not an introductory course and does not review the material contained in C1.

C2 fulfills part of your training requirement forSSPC Protective Coatings Specialist (PCS) certification and prepares you for the challenging Protective Coatings Specialist Exam. All PCS candidates who do not have 15 years of experience must take and pass the C1 and C2 before sitting for the PCS Exam. There is no approved alternative training accepted.