Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Quality Management Module: Static and Rotating Equipment Inspection Checklists

Another quality control process that needs to be monitored, evaluated, and reported in the project control system (PCS) is the Static and RotatingEquipment Inspection Checklists. For oil and gas projects, static equipment comprises valves, boilers, furnaces, and heat exchangers. Oil and gas rotating equipment comprise turbines, pumps, and compressors. On the other hand, static equipment is with no moving parts is comparatively morereliable. Similar to the other quality control processes, the difference between a project control system (PCS) that is managed by the project owner or the contractor is the ownership of the 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…