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Planned vs Earned Value: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

by InEight | Sep 12, 2023

Spurred on by the gradual shift toward digital transformation to improve project outcomes, contractors are zeroing in on performance and progress data to monitor how well projects align with those outcomes. Many are using earned value management...

Promoting Innovation in the New Hybrid Work Environment

The pandemic was, and still is to some extent, one of the greatest global disruptions to business ever experienced. The very manner in which we work has been completely flipped on its head (or at least it can feel that way). Love it or hate it, this has created new, hybridized work realities all industries […]

How Project Controls Improves Infrastructure Project Outcomes

The sheer size and complex nature of infrastructure projects and other substantial long-term builds requires careful planning and budgeting. Yet despite all good intentions and efforts, project outcomes rarely mirror exactly the expectations set at the beginning. And project owners, having grown weary of all-too-frequent runaway costs and delays, are rather apprehensive […]

VDC and Coordination in Project Controls

The term project controls encompasses a wide breadth of actions and activities that take place from the very beginning of a project to the very end. There are many familiar topics that can be covered in project controls like cost management, virtual design and construction, planning, scheduling and risk, capital and contract management, field execution, […]

What is BIM? (Building Information Modeling)

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has rapidly become a critical component and, in some aspects, mandated to protect the integrity of planning, designing and the construction of buildings to ensure efficiency and collaboration. Why is BIM so important? Keep reading as we further explore everything BIM, including the benefits, the various levels, how BIM supports job […]

Overcoming Resistance to Earned Value Management (EVM) Adoption

As reliable and popular as earned value management (EVM) is within the construction industry, there remains some resistance to adopting it as a project performance tracking method. Some of this hesitancy is rooted in several common misunderstandings about EVM. Why does this matter? Because such resistance can prevent realizing vital insights into a project’s financial […]

The Importance of Operating Ranges for EVM Performance Metrics

Earned value management (EVM) is a common way to evaluate how well construction projects are doing in terms of performance and progress. It’s especially effective in helping monitor and manage projects that tend to be more complicated, involve longer build timelines and entail substantial budgets. Within EVM are two metrics, schedule performance index (SPI) […]

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