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How to Avoid 3 Common Commercial Construction Scheduling Delays

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Due to a variety of factors – from smaller profit margins following the economic downturn, to the sense of immediacy that’s so pervasive in the modern business world – everyone from our clients on down to our subcontractors are being squeezed for time and asked to deliver commercial construction projects on tighter schedules than ever before.

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Lean Construction – Pull Planning Explained

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How Does Pull Planning Fit Into It? Pull planning is considered a lean scheduling technique. We’ll go into what it is in a bit but all you need to know for now is that it makes scheduling weekly and daily tasks easier through collaboration. Okay Great – What Is Pull Planning? Planning by pulling.

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Innovative Approaches to Industrial Construction Project Management

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All stakeholders have access to the same files, documents, drawing, and models. It streamlines scheduling. Sure, adding solar panels, PV windows, the best insulation for exterior walls , and water harvesting are all wonderful ideas for creating green buildings. It eliminates the need for in-person meetings.

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Commercial Construction Delivery Methods: 3 Times To Go With A Negotiated Bid

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Of course, like any national commercial contractor we also do our share of work on a competitive bid basis where construction firms submit bids for a project based on a set of plans provided by the client, and the client subsequently awards the project based on those bids. Project Plans Are Not Fully Finalized.

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Show Village 2021: 3 Idea Homes for the Way We Live Now

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Show Village 2021: 3 Idea Homes for the Way We Live Now. Home Plans for a Post-COVID Reality. A New Era of Idea Homes at IBSx. Even designers can’t truly articulate how a space feels or a building looks with two-dimensional drawings,” says Bob Masulis, RM Design Studio’s founder and president. cbroderick. Michele Lerner.

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Project Foundation Pt. 1: Building the Master Schedule

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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. To start, here are key considerations to take when creating the Master Schedule, prioritized by stok’s Project Managers : 1. This consideration is too often overlooked.

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Bringing your programme to the site: How to know everything and build better

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In one of our recent webinars, Olivier Luxen, Senior Project Manager on a residential project, compared the way we do planning in construction today with the way we did on a road trip 40 years ago. siloed MS Project schedules. Many project and site managers tell us that they have to spend up to 50% of their time each week on planning.

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