Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Quality Management Module: Technical Submittals

The Quality Management module is another critical project control system (PCS) module. The module addresses the quality assurance and quality control requirements. Those include technical submittals, calibration tests for quality inspection equipment, work inspection requests, material inspection requestions, concrete pouring inspection, rotary and static equipment inspections, and non-conformance reports. That Read more…

Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Cost Management Module: Forecast Management

Regardless of whose perspective the project control system is managed, both the project owner and his team as well as the contractor have the requirement to have a formal process for recording, monitoring, and evaluating the forecast cost to complete the remaining project’s scope of work. The earned value management Read more…

Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Cost Management Module: Change Management

There is a very slim chance that a construction project is completed without encountering changes. There are many events that could cause a change. For example, those include the intent of documents not “reasonably inferable” and corrections required, unknown conditions necessitating changes, the project owner’s requirements change, changes in code Read more…