Building the Capital Project Owners’ Cost Database to Ensure Sound Cost Estimates
Having a reliable, accurate and current cost database is a must requirement for having an accurate project cost estimate which…
Managing, Monitoring and Tracking New Requests for Capital Projects
For project-centric organizations, there is always an ongoing demand for new project ideas, known as initiatives, to achieve the organization’s…
Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Cost Management Module: Definite Cost Estimate
The third Project Control System (PCS) module needed for construction projects is the cost management module. In doing so, it…
Evaluating and Shortlisting Capital Investment Opportunities Using Profit Investment Ratio (PIR) and Risk Exposure Measures
When it comes to evaluating and shortlisting capital investment opportunities, an organization needs to consider selecting and investing in them…
Why Real Estate Developers and Investors Should Have a Comprehensive Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) that Maps the Complete Project Life Cycle Costs and Revenues for Their Real Estate Investment Projects
For real estate developers and investors including special purpose vehicles (SPV) created for Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects, the cost of delivering…
Visualizing, Analyzing, and Investigating Building Information Modeling (BIM) Enabled Connected Cost
Having a single version of the true financial performance reporting is one of the important if not the most important…
Visualizing, Analyzing and Investigating Building Information Modeling (BIM) Enabled Cost Estimates
The growing adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has helped users take advantage of the different data types captured in…
Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) for Capital Construction Project Revenues
For most of those involved in delivering capital construction projects, the cost breakdown structure (CBS) or cost accounts mainly focus…
Work and Cost Breakdown Structures Based Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting of Cost Performance on Capital Construction Projects
Project owners involved in delivering capital construction projects always have the requirement to monitor, evaluate and report project cost performance…
Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting Strategy Performance Outcomes in Project Centric Organizations
One of the key challenges that face project-centric or project-driven organizations and in particular those in the public sector is…
How to Convert a Capital Construction Project Cost Estimate into a Budget that can be Monitored, Evaluated, and Reported at the Required CBS Levels
One of the top great challenges that face project owners as well as contractors is how to convert their approved…
Can Machines be Trained to Learn How to Detect Fraud Transactions on Capital Construction Projects?
The tendency to commit fraud is very much part of every business and capital construction projects are no different. Actually,…
