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5 Keys to Purchasing Construction Planning Software

by InEight | Apr 29, 2021

You’re at the point where the sheer magnitude and detail of the construction projects you take on are becoming more difficult and time-consuming to plan and schedule so you're thinking about purchasing construction planning software. There are...

Is Construction Schedule Realism Achievable?

As construction professionals, we’ve all experienced the “uh-oh” and “oh no, not again” scenarios. The ones that, despite our best efforts, seem to conspire to throw carefully developed construction schedules into disarray — weather events, supply chain hiccups, inventory shortages, last-minute change orders, even a pandemic, just to name a few. Given the extended timelines […]

The Importance of Trend Data in Reporting, Project Controls and Field Execution

The amount of data available to stakeholders today is priceless to reporting, project controls and field execution teams. Decision making is more informed than ever before, and teams are capable of being more analytical now than they have been in the past. But where we see the most powerful set of data is when individual […]

The Case for Fully Automated Earned Value Management (EVM)

The most popular metric used to track a project’s progress is earned value management (EVM). This is because EVM is a mathematical tool that relies on a project’s actual evolving data to measure how much work has been completed, the costs incurred and the schedule performance of a project. The result is a truly objective […]

The Benefits of Construction Estimating Within an Integrated Platform

It’s generally acknowledged that the future of construction lay in technology, software in particular. There are a lot of software options to adopt out there, though, with most focused on a single construction business function. Do any standout? More than half of respondents to the InEight Global Capital Projects Outlook ranked construction estimating as being […]

The Changing Face of Design Management

I have been reminiscing about the last 25-30 years of my career in design now that I am in a solution engineering role. It is interesting to see how much has changed over time and how much has stayed the same. I remember starting in the late eighties working on a drawing board in an […]

The Future Impact of Building Information Modeling (BIM) on Construction Projects

The future is now, and it’s being shaped by building information modeling (BIM) every day. What is it about BIM that is having such a direct effect on the future of construction projects? Turns out, it’s not just one thing but a combination of factors that make BIM so powerful and important. This means everything […]

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