Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Communication Management: Email Communications

The growing use of emails as a means of formal and ad-hoc communications methods on construction projects has many advantages but also carries many risks when it is done without formal management, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of email communications. The content of these email communications might often have implications for Read more…

Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Communication Management: Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence

No construction project can be executed without exchanging letters between the project stakeholders. Those letters are considered to be formal communication for which contractual obligations might result from their content as well as the response received or lack of response against those letters. Therefore, the content of those letters needs to be drafted with great care and Read more…

Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Communication Management: Site Communications

The delivery of construction projects requires the parties involved in delivering the project to have options to communicate information while they are on the construction site. Two of the most widely used site communications are the Site Work Instruction (SWI) and the Confirmation of Verbal Instructions (CVI). Regardless of whether Read more…