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Blog Posts: 2014 - 2024

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Basic Architectural Millwork Scheduling

The Devil is in the Details Architectural millwork scheduling is a process describing several moving parts throughout the course of the project lifecycle, beginning with the design intent and design development through construction drawings, the submittal sample and mock up

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CPM scheduling platforms

Choosing CPM Scheduling Platforms to Meet Your Needs

CPM Scheduling Platforms as Models of Efficacy Choosing CPM scheduling platforms is a matter of integrity and scale. You want to have the right tool box for the needs of your organization and the projects it manages. That means you

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Generating Effective Construction Schedule Oversight Reports

Construction Schedule Oversight Success is Predicated on Having the Right Skill Sets There are both art and science at play in the business of preparing effective and productive CPM construction schedule oversight reports. That is to say, that technical knowhow

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Delay and Disruption Cases: a Tale of Two Claims

I recently had the pleasure of serving as an expert on two concurrent delay and disruption cases that proved to provide some interesting insights into the nuances of delay and disruptions experienced by the owner and the contractor. In one

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Construction Schedule Acceleration: Optimizing for Success

Schedule Acceleration: The Big Squeeze Construction schedule acceleration is a strategy designed and intended to either mitigate and stanch off float erosion (delay,) or to recover lost time – so to better control or advance completion dates. There are a

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Successful Shop Drawing and Submittal Strategies

There has always been a lot of confusion about what constitutes a ‘shop drawing,’ submittal,  and finally – coordination drawings. In order to optimize project management outcomes, it is necessary to not only know the difference, but to master the

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interior fit-out scheduling
10/22/2020 | By Derek Graham

Interior Fit-out Scheduling: Sequence of Installations

Nothing seems to get the short-shrift in the construction industry like interior fit-out scheduling. It’s natural for developers and general contractors to focus on core and shell, but that focus is too often at the expense of fit-out. A common assumption is that a...

subsurface
10/14/2020 | By Derek Graham

Scheduling Substructure in Urban Environments

Every out-of-the-ground building has its own unique substructure profile, or site class, that is addressed by a structural engineer. Nowhere are substructure profiles more complex than in urban environments, where building substructures must coordinate with utilities, tunnels, and existing building substructures. And no urban...

Pre construction scheduling
10/07/2020 | By Derek Graham

Pre Construction Scheduling: Devil in the Details

Pre Construction Scheduling An important but much overlooked component of construction program management is pre construction scheduling. Like the rest of the schedule, this arcane science is for the most part employed only when it is required by the owner.  The danger of giving...

resequencing
09/30/2020 | By Derek Graham

CPM Schedule Resequencing: Tweaking or Tinkering

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” -Robert Burns Few construction schedules ever go according to plan. For that reason their baselines should not be presented as immutable perfections of logic, but approximations of the highest likely trajectory. Resequencing...

project scheduling
09/24/2020 | By Derek Graham

Project Scheduling and Cost Estimation: Building Industry Deep Fake

The world of project controls – project scheduling and cost estimation, is fraught with misconceptions that are often undetectable to the untrained eye. Even within the industry, an extraordinary level of inexact or fabricated data is presented in lieu of validated timelines and budgets....

luxury construction
09/15/2020 | By Derek Graham

CPM Scheduling for Luxury Construction

Luxury  construction, or high-end residential construction, presents unique challenges to developers, general contractors, that their schedules and estimates routinely overlook. Some of these lapses translate into grim realities that are later obfuscated by glossy portfolios and website images, many of which are renderings made...

construction expert NY
09/07/2020 | By Derek Graham

Urban Construction Site Logistics and How to Schedule Them

Construction site logistics follow some basic operational guidelines that can be categorized according to the nature and location of the work. Urban construction site logistics differ from others in that site footprints are smaller, and the work is vertical. As such, the criteria for...

digital media advertising
09/02/2020 | By Derek Graham

CPM Scheduling Large Format Digital Media Advertising Signage

LED billboards are the ultimate scale-model of digital media advertising. Few projects are as logistically complex as those erected over busy urban thoroughfares, and none are as busy or complex as Times Square, where (pre-COVID) 380,000 pedestrians – mostly tourists – pass through each...

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