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The Imperatives of the Schedule and Estimate Connection

by InEight | Oct 15, 2020

It seems like most projects sometimes boil down to a simple fact: Time is money and no one likes to be left holding the bag. Disputes about this age-old conflict bubble up on the back end when it comes time to figure out who should pay for that...

Planning and Scheduling: Focus on Safety

Safety has been and will always be a top priority in the construction industry. This prioritization of construction safety has caused an active evolution — even a revolution — in how industry professionals have started to utilize technology and data to further improve safety. Think of the advancement of adding GPS to construction safety equipment […]

How AI-Driven Planning and Scheduling Can Benefit Construction Estimating

Artificial intelligence (AI), also referred to as augmented intelligence, holds so much promise for the ways it can be applied within construction projects. Already known for its role in drone and robotic technology, it’s beginning to appear in other project-critical functions such as project scheduling, planning and risk management. It is through this AI-driven scheduling […]

The Growing Appeal of AI-Driven Scheduling Software

If you were to choose one type of technology that would make the biggest difference in your business operations and success, what would that be? If you’re like the majority of the owners and contractors in the Americas who responded to the InEight Global Capital Projects Outlook survey in 2021, the answer is artificial intelligence […]

How Risk Management Helps You Win More Capital Project Bids

It’s been a common expectation in our construction culture that the lowest dollar figure generally wins the capital project bid battle. One reason for this: accounting for risks that could inflate that figure has not always been seen as a wise business move. Considering that winning construction bids is what keeps construction companies’ lights on, […]

Why Risk Management is Really Confidence Management

The days leading up to the signing of a construction agreement are nothing short of intense. Whether it’s bid submittal day as a contractor or a final investment decision moment as an owner – there is a lot to process. Last minute changes, tweaks, and edits take place, people double and triple check their numbers […]

Risk Management Workshops: Building Confidence in the Plan

Risk isn’t the easiest topic to talk about and can seem perhaps even less so in a workshop setting. These workshops are meant to surface the risks that can impact a project’s schedule, cost and productivity and to make decisions on how to best mitigate them. But they can also have the unintended effect of […]

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