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The Best Tool for Reaching Net-Zero in Construction? Improved Communication

by InEight | Nov 27, 2023

2023 was a year of discovery across the construction industry. According to InEight’s Global Capital Projects Outlook, 2023 Edition, the largest organisations with the most capital projects consistently fell behind, nearly half (44%) consistently...

Global Capital Projects Outlook: The Future of European Construction

The InEight Global Capital Projects Outlook (GCPO) report is out and has been providing myriad insights for the global construction industry. The company’s third such report to date, the Outlook is based on a survey of 300 large-enterprise and construction professionals and consists of 26 questions designed to gauge general confidence and optimism levels across the […]

Seeing the Big Picture with the Right Construction Project Tech

What does it mean to see the big picture? It means viewing each capital project from every facet — how all its parts work together and how they impact each other. Traditional project management technologies limit this ability. These limitations — lack of transparency, project uncertainty, inaccessible documentation and disconnected data — make it hard […]

Leveraging Technology to Create a Naturally Risk-Aware Construction Culture

To many folks in the construction industry, risk is a four-letter word. In fact, when I discuss the topic of risk with our customers, I sometimes wonder how anything ever gets built. The categories of risk abound. Sure, there’s the triumvirate of scope, time and cost to which I like to add safety and quality, […]

4 Ways an Integrated Platform Can Help Manage NEC4 Contracts

Why reinvent the wheel if you don’t have to? That’s the idea behind the New Engineering Contract, Version 4, aka NEC4. NEC4 is a construction contract suite developed in the United Kingdom, with Version 1 being released in 1993. The intent was to templatize different contracts in a mix-and-match style and adopt uniform, straightforward terminology […]

Managing with the Lights On: Planned vs. Earned vs. As-Built Value

You can’t possibly know where you are going if you don’t know where you are or where you’ve been. We’ve all heard this countless times about life in general. And guess what? It’s no different for the world of project controls. Because how can we possibly know how much money we will spend in the […]

Capturing the Day: Why Activity Summaries Matter

No two days are ever alike on a capital project. What’s captured, evaluated and learned from each day can impact its construction progress and performance and, ultimately, its success as a built asset. That’s what makes activity summaries, also known as construction daily reports, one of the most essential types of deliverables to produce during […]

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