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How Planning Throughout Project Execution Averts Risk

by InEight | Aug 18, 2022

Construction is built around plans. Those plans involve more than simply organizing how, when and where job tasks will be done, and saying “go!” They have to also ensure those tasks will be free of the constraints and risks — known and...

How AI Is Making Construction More Human

The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning has been a boon to the construction industry. It’s freed up project planners from dealing with the very time-intensive stuff that they would normally have to sift through — such as a paper trail or a traditional data base. It’s allowed them to focus more on […]

The Evolution of Change Management

Change seems to be the new normal. As organizations continue to adopt new technologies, standard processes or organizational changes, it’s imperative to understand how these changes will impact your workforce and how to adopt a viable strategy for this change. By employing change management and adoption strategies, you can navigate through the inevitable turmoil when […]

A Bottom-Up Approach to On-Time, On-Budget Projects

Cost overruns and delayed projects are increasingly unacceptable, as owners demand that estimates, budgets and schedules better align with construction reality. Effectively matching actuals to estimates, schedules and budgets is largely dependent on an appropriate level of detail – a challenge a decade ago. Today, modern software for construction estimating, planning and scheduling have the […]

6 Tips to Improved Earned Value Measurement

Earned value is the measurement of the value of work performed thus far. The accuracy of this assessed value is one of the most critical components in determining the financial health of a construction project. A misrepresentation of true earned value leads to an overly optimistic forecast of project costs, delayed recognition of cost overruns, […]

5 Steps to Planning a Successful Building Project

Here at InEight we support customers with large-scale capital projects…highways, utilities, airports, mines, etc. However, our experience translates to any type of successful building project. We believe the construction process can be improved, addressing the pervasive ‘over budget and over time’ issues of construction regardless as to the size of the project. We want to […]

Kicking the Habit: 4 Planning Tactics to Avoid Now

If the overarching objective of construction project planning is to establish a model that best reflects what we believe will be a reality, why are CPM tools still not enabling us to achieve this goal? It could be because the use of these tools has taught us some bad planning habits – habits that we need to […]

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