Why Daily Reports Could Be the Best Tool to Verify the Accuracy of the Estimated Material Resources Quantities on Capital Construction Projects

One of the major dilemmas that face contractors on construction sites is how to verify that the estimated material resources such as steel reinforcement, cement, blocks, premix mortar, ceramic tiles, plastering, painting, false ceilings, pipes, and others for actual work in place are inline to what was originally estimated. They Read more…

The Fourth Industrial Revolution 4.0 (Industry 4.0) and its Impact on Managing the Execution of Capital Construction Projects

So much has been written and said on how the fourth industrial revolution 4.0 (Industry 4.0) will impact the delivery of capital construction projects. Most of what has been published addresses the digitization of the project’s design using Building Information Modelling (BIM), capturing data from the construction sites by using Read more…

Calculating, Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting Project Schedule Performance Index on Capital Construction Projects

The paper written by Bahaa Hussein and Osama Moselhi on “Performance Reporting Using Schedule Compression Index” has detailed a number of performance indicators that can provide a better insight on how a capital construction project is performing for the time or schedule management aspect. Those include the Schedule Performance Index Read more…