One of the most important jobs you have as a construction project manager is monitoring costs, from the pre-build estimating stage and throughout the course of a project. However, ensuring every dollar is accounted for is no small task, and puts...
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Can you relate to this? Tuesdays and Thursdays had quickly become my least favorite days for the duration of a project. Per my project manager’s request, those were the days when our subcontractors would receive their outstanding document deliverable reports to their inboxes, for which I always had to follow-up on by phone. Luckily with […]
The ability to make informed, actionable decisions based on up-to-date project data can be the difference between a successful capital project and a costly failure. For contractors, owners and engineers, that means having the right information at the right time and in the appropriate format. Given the endless streams of data produced before and during […]
We all have a favorite project, the one that went so well we are excited for the next. We try to replicate that project repeatedly. How did we do it, why was that one so great? Most likely, it was because we started with the end in mind, the commissioning, and we built from that […]
You’re nearing the end of a long project. The closer you get, the more imperative it becomes to know the ongoing status of your turnover progress. It certainly requires a lot of coordination among the many teams on the jobsite and the back office; an endless array of deliverables to verify, produce and package up […]
From an owner’s perspective, building a new capital asset comes with a range of challenges and uncertainties. In most cases, the work required to build the asset – whether it’s an industrial plant, a datacenter, a bridge or a factory – will be performed by third parties and the owner’s ability to influence value creation […]
Despite all the time and well-intentioned efforts that go into organizing a capital project, it can seem like even the best laid plan just isn’t enough when outcomes still veer off the mark. The problem? Maybe it wasn’t the right plan to begin with. Much like choosing the right tool to perform a task on […]