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Blog Posts: 2014 - 2024

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

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

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

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

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

12/29/2016 | By Derek Graham

Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 Passed into Law. Why it’s Meaningless

PMIAA passed into law: Who cares? The PMIAA Program Management Improvement Accountability Act of 2015 Passed into Law: Whoop-de-doo! The Program Management Improvement Accountability Act of 2015, (PMIAA) or should I say: The Project Management Institute’s Accountability Act of 2015, is intended to upgrade...

12/17/2016 | By Derek Graham

CPM Cost Loading Requires Inside Knowledge

CPM Cost Loading: still double-entry accounting Like construction project management, CPM Cost Loading is a science in which the best practitioners have administrative, as well as practical and theoretical skills specific to the industry in which they work. This condition generates some interesting perceptions,...

12/10/2016 | By Derek Graham

CPM Schedule Cost Loading: 10 Reasons it is Seldom Implemented

Cost loading in Primavera simply doesn’t cut the mustard because it has so little operability to incorporate variances. CPM Schedule Cost Loading has always been the bane of the scheduler’s existence. So much so that schedulers – including this scheduler, routinely exclude cost loading...

12/06/2016 | By Derek Graham

Megaproject CPM Scheduling Strategies: Avoiding Too Big to Fail

Megaprojects still muddle along as teraprojects threaten to eclipse even their excesses The notion “too big to fail” is a phrase generally reserved for entities undertaking large-scale/high-risk enterprises, such as the FDIC scandal of 1984, and the Lehman Brothers Ponzi scheme of 2007 that...

11/26/2016 | By Derek Graham

The Demise of the CPM Fast-track Schedule: 10 Reasons it is Gone for Good

fast-track schedule; (n) (obs) a construction fit-out – where building begins with incomplete designs that are to be augmented as the building progresses Back in the free-wheeling nineties, I recall that a fast-track schedule was commonplace. I also recall only one that finished on...

11/21/2016 | By Derek Graham

Code Alert! Against Grandfathering, pro-Safeguarding for all

Grandfathering is a term that has considerably deprecated in meaning over time to suit, owing to objective, in lieu of subjective contexts There exists a dangerous pandemic in building code enforcement known as grandfathering. The term generally refers to buildings that were deemed compliant...

11/15/2016 | By Derek Graham

10 Reasons for CPM Schedule Failure

CPM schedule failure costs the industry – a minimum estimated USD$123B in 2014, mostly borne by general contractors and specialty trades CPM schedule failure is inevtibale, despite best practices, when the rest of the team isn’t pulling their own weight. The integrity of the...

10/09/2016 | By Derek Graham

BIM Adoption: Why it Has Failed to Mainstream, and May Never

BIM Adoption: is it as prevalent as ‘they’ say? I have written about BIM adoption in this space in 2014, dispelling bunkum that media spins about BIM adoption in the construction industry. In that same paper, I lampooned doctored surveys and questionnaires that purported...

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