Why Contractors Could Be Facing Unprecedent Threats When Project Owners Decide to Use Project Management Information Systems (PMIS) or Document Management Systems (DMS) to Enable Formal Communication Between Project’s Parties on Their Construction Projects
For construction projects that project owners have either adopted a Project Management Information System (PMIS) or even a Document Management...
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Using Pre-Commissioning Checklists to Assure Smooth Transition of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems to the Final Testing and Acceptance Stage of Capital Construction Projects
The Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system is one of the most critical building systems in residential, commercial, hospitality,...
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Assessing the Readiness of Contractors for the Commissioning and Startup Stage on Capital Construction Projects
Successful capital projects delivery requires thorough preparation and accurate execution during the planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup project...
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Using Checklists to Ensure that all the Key Areas of the Construction Contracts in Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Projects Have Been Addressed
In general, checklists are one of the proven methods for organizations to ensure that their experience and knowledge in performing...
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Why Capital Construction Project Owners Need to Maintain Dual Documents Filing Structure: One for the Project Life Cycle Stages and Another for Asset Operation and Maintenance Life Cycle Stages
For the majority of capital project owners, whether they were from the public sector or private sector, the life cycle...
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Why the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) Should be Part of the Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting on Your Capital Construction Project Investments Performance
Although many of those involved in investing in capital construction projects have different criteria to decide if the project opportunity...
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Using Earned Value Method (EVM) to Monitor, Evaluate and Report on the Performance of Your Real Estate Property Gross Development Value (GDV)
Gross Development Value (GDV) is one of the most important performance metrics that all real estate investors and property developers...
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Digitizing the Quality Management Plan for Capital Construction Projects
The Project Quality Management Plan (PQMP) for capital construction projects is a written document that serves as the basis for...
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What Are the Key 4 Signs to Tell You that Your Reported Capital Construction Projects’ Performance is Not Trustworthy?
For entities who are involved in delivering capital construction projects, senior executives continue to depend on others to prepare their...
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How Can Organizations Take Advantage from Their Past and Current Experience in Managing Change Orders to Build an Unbiased Assessment of Schedule and Cost Impact of Change Order Risks as well as Their Occurrence Likelihood on their Capital Construction Projects’ Portfolio?
Similar to any risk assessment, assessing the exposure of change orders risk on a capital construction project requires assessing the...
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What Measures Should Project Owners Take to Prohibit Contractors from Abusing the Request for Information Business Process on Capital Construction Projects?
In capital construction projects, a request for information (RFI) is a formal business process in which the contractor seeks clarification...
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The Five Low-Hanging Fruits that Each Entity Should Aim for When Starting the Journey of Digital Transformation for Managing, Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting Performance of Capital Construction Projects
The term "low-hanging fruit" is a commonly-used metaphor for doing the simplest or easiest work first requiring little or no...
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Avoid the Fatal Mistake of Presenting Monster Schedules when Submitting Delay Claims on Capital Construction Projects
Back in 1982, I used to work at one of the world’s largest construction claim firms who continue to be...
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The Importance of having Meaningful Probability Values for the Likelihood of Events’ Occurrence to Predict Future Results on Capital Construction Projects
When an individual makes a decision or takes an action, the quality of the made decision or takes action depends...
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How Can Capital Construction Project Owners Consolidate the Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting of the Schedule Performance Status Across their Complete Projects’ Portfolio When Different Tools Are Used in Creating Those Schedules?
For most owners of capital construction projects, the project life cycle starts from the early stage of capital planning all...
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Capturing, Analyzing and Sharing Lessons Learned from Delivering Capital Construction Projects
There is a growing trend among organizations that are involved in delivering capital projects to enforce proactive knowledge management culture....
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Whether We Like it or Not, Social Distancing Will Become the New Norm on Capital Construction Projects Delivery
When the UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock was photographed kissing a longtime friend that he has recently hired as an...
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Using Checklists to Expedite the Final Account Process on Capital Construction Projects
Final Accounts for capital construction projects are prepared to show the final cost of projects that have been completed by...
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Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting Contractors’ Quality Performance on Capital Construction Projects
One of the key objectives for any project and in particular capital construction projects is the contractor’s compliance with achieving...
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Why We Need to Manage, Monitor, Evaluate and Report on Deliverables Activities as Business Processes While Executing the Project Life Cycle Stages
Whenever an entity wants to deliver a project including a capital construction project, one of the first documents that get...
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