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BSI bids to cut costs on infrastructure projects

Construction Enquirer

Experts suggest that a better approach to scope development and managing risk and contractual change could save up to £25bn a year on projects. To download a copy of the whitepaper click here. Standards body BSI haslaunched a new whitepaper on how to minimise risks in infrastructure projects.

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Digital Twin Consortium Publishes Building Performance User Guide

Civil + Structural Engineer

This user guide demonstrates how digital twins can help deliver these transformative changes and recognizes that our industry needs to collaboratively reduce the impact of our built environments,” said co-author Todd Lukesh, Client Engagement Manager and Sustainability Lead, Gafcon Digital.

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Expert Offers Advice on Cumulative Impact Claims

Construction Dive

"But just because you have lots of change orders doesn’t mean that you are necessarily eligible for a cumulative impact claim. . "But just because you have lots of change orders doesn’t mean that you are necessarily eligible for a cumulative impact claim. . ” Read more.

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Collaborate Like Never Before:

Civil + Structural Engineer

This saves your teams plenty of time because they don’t have to find the right version of the model or sheet, since these are pre-set in a list set by the project manager. Improve Documentation and Issue Management Not every project stakeholder (or manager, or owner, etc.)

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Experts Outline Some of the Root Causes of ‘Scope Creep’

Construction Dive

He and fellow Marsh Managing Consultant John Ciccarelli offered plenty of advice on this topic to a target audience of engineers, architects, risk management professionals, construction and project managers, presidents, vice presidents, contractors, subcontractors, and others. ” Read more.'

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Seeing client on calendar | activeCollab - Project Management and.

Construction Dive

For instance, to change global calendar youll need to change day.tpl located in /activecollab/application/modules/calendar/views/calendar. There are two other day.tpl files in other subfolders so you can change them if you want. Please note that this is a hack and that youll need to maintain changes you made when upgrading.

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AISI Publishes Design Examples to Illustrate Updated Provisions in AISI S100

Civil + Structural Engineer

Supplement 3 includes many significant changes and additions to the North American Specification,” said Jay Larson, P.E., F.ASCE, managing director of AISI’s Construction Technical Program. The examples were developed using the software Smath Studio and can be purchased from the AISI Steel Store ( [link] ) or directly at [link].