Cybersecurity: A No Brainer for Construction Technology
In today’s digital world, every piece of information is stored on a remote system and it’s the service provider’s responsibility to take appropriate measures to protect client data.
Cybersecurity: A No Brainer for Construction Technology
Less than a decade ago, the construction industry was largely untouched by digital technology. A 2016 McKinsey article envisioned a future where the industry would embrace digitization. Yet, it...
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Cybersecurity: A No Brainer for Construction Technology
In today’s digital world, every piece of information is stored on a remote system and it’s the service provider’s responsibility to take appropriate measures to protect client data.
Construction Risk Management with Schedule Data
Analyzing schedule data has revolutionized how construction risks are identified and managed. By scrutinizing the schedule, you can pinpoint micro (project) and macro (organizational) risks.
Uniting Planning and Scheduling Through Technology
Integrating planning and scheduling is not just a theoretical advantage but a practical solution to common industry challenges.
What Float in CPM Schedules Means for Your Construction Project
By looking at float and criticality, a well-built CPM schedule paints the picture of what actually happens on-site.
Understanding Your Construction Project Health Index
Similar to a report card gauging a student’s progress during the school year, project health gauges how well a project is doing against set standards.
Planned vs. Actual Progress Explained
By plotting the earned value curves in the schedule versus what is actually happening, you can reflect on durations with levels of risk, over-optimism bias, and planning fallacy.
The Future of Construction Scheduling
Collaboration, transparency, and AI integration are guiding the future of construction scheduling.
7 Proactive Steps to Avoid Construction Project Claims
The majority of construction project claims result from impacts and delays over time, many of them being hidden for months after the fact.
Celebrating National Tradesperson Day
Tradespeople are not your average laborers. A tradesperson, by definition, is someone who has acquired their skills through an apprenticeship of vocational training or education.
Integrated Insurance Solutions for Construction Projects
Insurance’s role in construction projects goes beyond financial protection; it’s a mechanism for ensuring smooth operations, mitigating risks, and resolving disputes.
Project Predictability with Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
SPI is invaluable for honing predictability. At its core, SPI represents the productivity rate of a project.
The Perfect Storm: Navigating Construction Project Management
In the inevitable event of delays or discrepancies in delivery, it’s essential for companies to trace these challenges back to their origin.
Schedule Updates Are Surging. What Does It Mean?
By embracing more regular updates, project teams have gained the advantage of spotting issues earlier in the building process and accessing critical information more quickly.
Confessions of a Former Construction Delay Consultant
Basically, my job as the delay consultant was to know how accurate the project’s perceived story was and make the proper adjustments based on the universe of project data available.
Creating a Data-Driven Mindset in Construction
In the ever-changing environment of commercial construction, it can be hard to effectively manage projects due to their dynamic nature.
Make Worker Safety Part of the Equation in Schedule Compression
Let’s start off this blog with a sobering truth: While worker safety is always a concern in the construction industry, it may get–shall we say–downplayed on occasion.
Streamlining Construction Scheduling: A Success Story with SmartPM
In the dynamic world of construction, efficient scheduling is crucial for project success.
Data Analytics: Squeezing the Most Out of Your Scheduling Program
Any construction company worth its salt develops a comprehensive schedule before embarking on a project.
Safeguarding Construction Profit Margins: 4 Steps Amid Uncertain Times
The current economic environment requires construction businesses to take proactive measures to safeguard their profit margins.
The Role of AI in Construction
Artificial Intelligence–AI–has taken the world by storm this year. Its reference has increased by over 77% from 2022.
Big Data in the Construction Industry: 2023
The construction industry has long been threatened by time and budget overruns, with poor job site coordination being a significant contributor.
The Most Important Metrics Construction Executives Need to Track & Why
Construction projects are a multifaceted endeavor, requiring checks and balances for successful completion.
Forensic Delay Analysis is Archaic in Construction
Forensic delay analysis is commonly used in construction to investigate the causes and impacts of delays during the project lifecycle.
Construction Executive Oversight: Mitigate and Identify Risks
Successful project management requires an earnest personal commitment, especially for those with multiple, ongoing, multi-million-dollar construction projects.
Elevate Construction Projects with Schedule Oversight & Data Analytics
Managing complex construction projects is daunting due to the overwhelming number of moving parts to track and coordinate.
Staying in the Know: Schedule Updating & Best Practices
Using a Critical Path Method (CPM) schedule involves more than creating a high-quality baseline schedule.
Mastering CPM: Best Practices for Developing a Baseline Schedule
A construction project is a complex, multifaceted endeavor that requires careful planning and execution.
Use CPM Scheduling to Stay On Schedule, On Budget, And Out Of Court
Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling has been around for over half a century. However, it’s often not utilized to its full potential or its original promise.
How to Handle Delay Disputes
Delays push out projected end dates and contribute to budget increases in more ways than one.
Continuous Improvement: SmartPM & Atomic Habits
Atomic habits require that instead of focusing on goals, focus on the process of achieving those goals.
Missing Crew Logic: The Silent Killer of Construction Scheduling
Crew logic is a form of “soft logic” that assigns relationships to activities that are reflective of where a crew is going to move next–based on means, methods, & crew constraints.
SmartPM Is Recognized As Top Project Planning Software in 2022
To make the holiday season even merrier, we’re thrilled to share our multiple award-winning streaks in 2022 by Software Advice.
3 Lessons Baseball Can Teach You about Project Controls
Schedule data shows how all parts and pieces are interrelated to transform a pile of dirt into a state-of-the-art project deliverable.
Schedule Forecasting Using Historical Data
Forecasting gives companies an early warning sign for potential end-date slippage.
Everything You Need for Studying Critical Path Delay & Recovery
Studying critical path delay and recovery across your project portfolio monthly minimizes the risk of delays and disputes.
Understanding Project Progress with Earned Value Analysis
Project control systems within the world of construction aim to ensure project goals are achieved.
Schedule Quality Analysis: a Function of Project Controls
Schedule quality analysis is a constant cycle of planning, scheduling, optimizing, and repeating.
The Power of Project Controls
Project controls are analytical processes and outputs that are used to understand and communicate project information.
Construction Change Management: What Are Best Practices?
Construction change management facilitates coordinating and controlling the transition from the original to the updated design.
Construction Project Schedule Management: 5 Tips to Avoid Overruns
When a project’s end date moves forward, the project’s schedule is overrun.
The DCMA Schedule Quality Assessment: 14 Checks
The DCMA guidelines are by no means perfect nor without controversy. But they help create quality schedules worthy of managing a job.
Create an MS Project Schedule for Construction in 10 Easy Steps
MS Project is a project management software program that has become a construction industry standard for creating and managing construction schedules.
Construction Scheduling Consistency: Define and Enforce Standards
When it comes to construction scheduling, it’s impossible to have two identical projects that produce identical results.
5 Early Warning Signs Your Project Schedule is Headed for Disaster
Schedules are a roadmap or a timetable with clear start and end dates as well as a list of tasks, activities, and their duration.
Construction Delays: 20 Practical Tips to Avoid the 5 Common Causes
Construction delays are now so prevalent in the industry that they’ve risen to the level of an inside joke.
What Is a Construction Schedule and How Do I Make One?
Much like blueprints show you structural details, the construction schedule shows how and when your project will be completed.
Construction Cost Overruns: An Industry in Crisis
It’s evident: the construction industry faces a profound crisis. So, where do we go from here?
The Difference Between a Project Scheduler and a Scheduling Experts
A construction schedule is vital for planning, managing, and leveraging data analytics to make informed decisions.
Contractor’s Fear of Sharing CPM Schedules
Many contractors cringe at the thought of sharing the construction schedule with owners.
4 Reasons Why Construction Became So Litigious
The world has become gravely litigious, particularly in the commercial construction and real estate industries.