As Patrick Weaver, Murray Wolf, and many others have observed, we are often late and over budget on projects in the construction industry. It has become clear to many in the industry that a deterministic schedule is not much of a predictive tool for project execution. Why? One of the phrases we use at PMA
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According to Wikipedia, “Bim is a 1974 Trinidad and Tobago film written by Raoul Pantin and directed by Hugh A. Robertson.” According to John Green, author of Paper Towns, Wikipedia is Omnictionary. However, neither of these pseudo-facts gets us any closer to the subject of this blog posting. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is most commonly
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This conference was held by FIATECH, an innovation-driven nonprofit in the construction industry that promotes technologies that impact the industry. They are very well regarded around the world. In the panel I spoke on, we focused on visualization in construction. I had the pleasure of leading a discussion on the visualization of capital planning. The
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This event was terrific. It was held in beautiful New Orleans, Louisiana during the weekend of Mardi Gras, prior to the Super Bowl. There were lots of parades and a very festive mood. We had representatives from many of our major clients. Some of those clients, like Jacobs Engineering, Merck Pharmaceuticals and MedImmune led presentations
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When most people think about risk assessments or risk management: they think only of avoiding potential risks. Sometimes, risk can also mean issues or problems. But risk management has another important component: opportunity. A thorough risk assessment will evaluate potential opportunities that can be exploited along with risks which can be avoided. Dr David Hillson
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The Panama Canal was, and probably still is, the biggest construction project in the history of the world. Billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives were sacrificed in order to create a connection between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. The building of Panama Canal is an amazing story that involves interesting elements
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The Napa River Salt Marsh Restoration project is a pretty big endeavor. We’re moving a whole lot of dirt. It’s a complex project with many details that cannot be overlooked. For instance, there is an endangered bird that nests in that area, so you can’t do any work within 500 feet of its nesting and
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The Third Annual PMA User Conference is being held in the wonderful city of New Orleans on Friday, January 25th. And on Saturday the 26th, at the Conference Center at the Sheraton Hotel in New Orleans, Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon is going to be presenting, free of charge, a newly envisioned 20-point protocol. This
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For mega-construction projects, organizations usually borrow money – because, of course, most organizations don’t have a few billion dollars sitting around. If you’re going to borrow money, it’s important to know how much money you will need to borrow and when you’ll need to borrow it. Project management in the construction industry creates plans in
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