Fieldwire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

There’s more to a successful construction project than enough resources, workforce and budget. As a subcontractor , you play a crucial role in the success of a construction project, making it essential for you to embody and instill these characteristics in your crew. It helps streamline project specifications and progress.

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Lets Build

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

You need to always be one step ahead of your project manager and communicate critical issues to them before they turn into threats to the project. Free ebook: Why WhatsApp and Excel aren’t enough for running complex construction projects. Read also: 10 helpful tips for project managers. The reason?

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Lets Build

JULY 22, 2022

However, many owners and contractors still struggle to implement lean concepts into their projects. Target value delivery is a design and delivery process, allowing teams to: Collaboratively explore ideas to find the best overall solution. Manage opportunities and risk to maximise return on investment.

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Stok

JUNE 27, 2018

After a successful project kick-off , a solid foundation is required to bring your project into “flow state”. That foundation is a detailed schedule and budget, created and owned by the Project Manager, with input from consultants and contractors, and approved by the Client.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

AUGUST 27, 2021

Jonathan Mabe learned these lessons first-hand as a young assistant project manager at Eckardt Group. In our latest Behind the Build interview, Jonathan recounts his experience in overcoming unexpected challenges when a project he was working on faced extreme weather conditions and pandemic-related issues. .

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Lets Build

MARCH 11, 2021

If you are a project manager or a foreman, you know by now the headaches that tools like WhatsApp, Excel, and MS Project are causing when you try to manage projects with a lot of repetition such as hospitals, apartment blocks, and roadwork projects. siloed MS Project schedules.

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Lets Build

JUNE 30, 2023

At its simplest, interactive planning involves bringing all project stakeholders and workers together so they can discuss each particular aspect of the project. During the session, they map out milestones and determine the scheduling considerations and necessary activities to reach them.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 14, 2022

For those working in infrastructure, there are always projects to address, like designing signals and traction power or performing maintenance. . Isabel Harlan , Senior Engineer and Project Manager at Hatch LTK , has learned to expect unexpected challenges in engineering. Engineer & Project Manager, Hatch LTK.

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Stok

JULY 29, 2018

The foundation for any successful project is a detailed schedule and budget. stok’s Project Managers first shared tips for creating an accurate Master Schedule. Now on the financial side, the Project Manager should work closely with the Client on the conceptual budget at project inception.

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Lets Build

AUGUST 24, 2020

What is a lookahead schedule? Construction projects come with a lot of admin work and several tasks inextricably linked to each other. It doesn’t take much to understand that this can lead many projects over budget and generate serious legal conflicts between the different stakeholders. Admin and mental burden.

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Lets Build

JUNE 30, 2023

At its simplest, interactive planning involves bringing all project stakeholders and workers together so they can discuss each particular aspect of the project. During the session, they map out milestones and determine the scheduling considerations and necessary activities to reach them.

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Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The ability to successfully account for and manage change during a project lies in an organization’s leadership and level of maturity relative to its strategies, processes, goals, and resources. This is why, at the end of the day, leadership and organizational leadership are the primary cause of endemic project failure.

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Lets Build

JANUARY 15, 2021

Site meetings are a constant source of frustration for many project managers around the world. Regardless of the type or the size of the project, this problem is almost always there. More specifically, this is where it becomes evident how important it is to implement construction-specific tools in your projects.

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Levelset

MARCH 16, 2022

The performance and monitoring stage is a phase in which the project’s progress, timeline, and budget are constantly assessed in order to keep the job on track. First, the designer or architect will start checking on the project more regularly to ensure that the actual construction meets the plan and design. Pre-construction.

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Lets Build

JULY 29, 2022

You can achieve this by focusing on clear communication between every party, including subcontractors, project managers, the customer, and project stakeholders. Embrace pull planning and scheduling. Talk to the customer, get their input, and listen to their ideas to determine how you can provide them with true value.

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Constructonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Constructing your own home is the perfect opportunity to incorporate all of your favourite features into one beautiful building, so make sure you do plenty of research to get a definite idea of what you are looking to achieve. This is where a professional project manager can help.

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Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The OpenJOC Job Order Contracting Framework enables centralized management and consistent deployment of best value and compliant processes, methods, and technologies to drive optimal renovation, repair, and construction outcomes. Prioritize projects based upon importance to the organization and budget. viewed quite differently.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, in terms of what I specialize in, My degree is in building construction and construction management. I was in the Army for nine years and developed good management and leadership skills. But that gave me valuable skills in leadership, personnel management, and project management. It was a 19-story Hampton Inn.

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HardHatChat

JANUARY 30, 2019

But for general contractors and our clients, the result is higher project budgets and challenges in construction scheduling. The good news for subcontractors is the labor shortage means higher profitability, because they are working at-capacity and able to charge a premium for their services.

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Stok

JANUARY 29, 2020

When it comes to finding the right Project Manager for your design and construction project, tracking scope, cost, and schedule is itself not enough. To be an effective leader, your Project Manager needs to be proactive rather than reactive. Your Project Manager needs to be a strong, consistent communicator.

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Lets Build

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The new normality that was violently introduced not only to our industry but also to our societies, due to COVID-19, calls for a new approach around project management. Reworks can consume between 7% to 15% of the total budget in new construction. Link your quality management to your project planning.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 13, 2022

Construction management is a term used to describe a service provided by construction managers (CMs), who are there to manage a project’s schedule and quality. They work with costs, the supply chain, and many other aspects of a build to help it get done on time (or early) and on or under budget. .

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PSMJ Resources

MARCH 26, 2012

Effective Project Managers Need Authority. Clients want strong project leaders rather than mere project “administrators” who’ll simply manage things and move them around. Numerous excuses can be made for any project that does not meet budget, schedule, or quality needs.

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Lets Build

JUNE 5, 2020

But what about using WhatsApp in your construction projects? Could that be a good idea? As a result, there are a number of challenges that appear when you try to rely on a digital solution like that to connect your 3-6 week planning to the master schedule. The short answer is no. And we can explain why: 1.

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Fieldwire

AUGUST 2, 2023

The common misconception is that only big companies with flexible budgets can afford it, but that’s not true. This can be challenging for managers in an industry with high employee turnover rates because you rarely hold onto the same workers for long. However, every company’s culture is different.

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Lets Build

APRIL 28, 2020

This will eventually result in more reworks and costly project interruptions that could have been avoided if everyone had an overview of how their tasks are connected to the master schedule. Furthermore, they can’t function as a single source of truth for your project as every stakeholder works on their own lifeless spreadsheet.

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PSMJ Resources

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

6 Common Project Management Practices of the Most Successful A/E/C Firms. This practice is essential for realistic budgeting, scheduling, easier negotiating, and to serve as a yardstick to monitor the progress of the project against the resources spent to date. project management professional.

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Lets Build

APRIL 3, 2023

You have limited resources but must plan for every scenario to finish your projects on time and on budget. You keep the workflow on schedule from planning to handover. But there’s a problem: Complicated construction project management tasks are around every corner, hampering the productivity and efficiency of every stakeholder.

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Lets Build

JUNE 23, 2023

One of the main construction KPIs to monitor for every project is your passed-to-total inspection ratio; it gives you an overview of the project’s overall quality. Performance Measuring performance metrics makes measuring worker productivity and project progress easy.

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Pro Builder

MARCH 24, 2021

He recalls multiple instances that sounded something like this: “I had it in my head that we were only over budget by a few thousand dollars, I had no idea we were this far over!”. When it came time to present the final bill to the homeowner, it would turn into a messy, uncomfortable situation. No more “us-versus-them” .

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Help Everybody Everyday

AUGUST 21, 2020

Maybe one example win theme would read like this: “Our patented gobbledegook process can cut time off your schedule and reduce ACME University’s library project costs. In fact, we used this process to deliver NextDoor University’s library project ahead of schedule and $3M under budget.”

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Lets Build

MARCH 10, 2017

GenieBelt right now is already a really powerful tool for updating progress for one project. A key selling point is that we make it simple for on-site reporting into a live construction programme or schedule presented as a Gantt chart (connecting the site/field to the office or vice versa). Nothing is hidden away or forgotten.

Project Management 139

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Lets Build

JUNE 23, 2023

One of the main construction KPIs to monitor for every project is your passed-to-total inspection ratio; it gives you an overview of the project’s overall quality. Performance Measuring performance metrics makes measuring worker productivity and project progress easy.

Profitability 78

Profitability Cash Flow Products Construction 78

Autodesk Construction Cloud

MAY 27, 2022

Tips for Beginning and Growing as a Construction Project Manager. Even better than participating in the building process is working in construction project management and getting to help direct the organized chaos that eventually produces a cohesive product. Interested in advancing your project and cost management skills?

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Stok

MAY 29, 2018

stok’s Project Managers share a few words of wisdom for setting up your project for success by crushing your project kick-off with these strategies: 1. With your project in mind, rank the following in order of importance: Budget, Schedule, Design. For some clients, this is clear cut.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nonetheless, there’s most likely an optimal delivery method for your company or project. By choosing the right one for your project, overall risk can be reduced, and budget and schedule can be better managed. Many methods of project delivery exist, but most are variations of the five models we’ll describe below.

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Lets Build

JUNE 9, 2020

As a result, many Project Managers and Project Directors think that getting people to adopt new systems and processes is nearly impossible. It lacks the project context and it has no connection to the master schedule making the decision-making process very difficult and error-prone. This is actually not true.

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