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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

The characteristics of strategic collaboration and efficient construction project delivery are discussed below. Mandatory early and ongoing collaboration for each project. Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. Lower project related cost growth. management. Shared boundaries.

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Seeing client on calendar | activeCollab - Project Management and.

Construction Dive

Hi All, Im starting to port all of our projects into aC and alot of them have the same titles but different clients (ex. When I look at the Calendar, it looks like the project name is pulled in, but not the client name. Is there a way to do this so that I can differentiate projects with the same names but for different clients?

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Trending Construction Disputes: Best Practices for Mitigation

CCR Magazine

How to manage capital projects more efficiently | McKinsey. LINK] The construction industry experienced significant turmoil in the last major economic downturn of The Great Recession (2007-2009), with many aspects of construction demand not returning until 2012 or 2013.

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

A great deal of research has been done one why projects fail. First and foremost is important to understand that all projects are exercises in managing change. The fact that variation is going to occur (relative to planned activities and outcomes) during the project is a given.

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Boards at odds over North Carolina county’s CM-at-Risk policy

BD+C

The Wake County, North Carolina School Board is happy with its use of construction manager at risk for its construction projects, citing the ability to better keep projects on schedule. Some local small contractors are not pleased, though, with the board’s CM-at-Risk policy that was instituted in 2007.

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Allison-Smith celebrates 80 years of innovation

CCR Magazine

Allison-Smith’s transformation in December 2007 into a fully employee-owned organization demonstrated a deeper commitment to its workforce. To improve safety, quality, speed and efficiency of construction projects, Allison-Smith launched a modular operation that scales with the needs of its clients.

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Revit OpEd: Delete Sheets In Browser or Schedules

Revit OpEd

Delete Sheets In Browser or Schedules. Revit warns us that they have been deleted from the model but they are still listed in schedules. To really delete them we have to open a schedule view and delete them there. How about instead having a Rooms explorer, like you can explore Schedules, Sheets and Families? Whadya think?