The Need to Have a Comprehensive Progressively Elaborated Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Managing Capital Projects

Those involved in delivering capital projects understand the importance of having a work breakdown structure (WBS) that can be progressively elaborated as the project’s scope of work gets developed and defined during the concept, schematic, design development, and construction documents phases of the project life cycle. The work breakdown structure Read more…

Managing, Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting Claim Submissions on Construction Projects

Construction claims in capital projects are on the rise and they need to be managed like the many other project management processes. Project owners need to have a formal and documented process for managing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the status of all claim submissions made by contractors. Project Management Read more…

061 Getting Paid for Material Delivered and Stored on Site in Construction Projects by Using Material Inspection Request (MIR) Process

One of the elements of an interim payment on construction projects is the payment for the contractor’s procured material delivered, stored and inspected at the project site. The contractor needs to provide supportive details of all material delivered as well as to quantify the remaining material stored at the project Read more…