Construction projects require meticulous planning as they involve numerous tasks and resources that need to be coordinated effectively to ensure timely completion. However, according to a new study, ...
The amount of effort spent scheduling the work on today’s construction projects is staggering. In addition to critical-path method schedules, contractors use sketches, Visio graphics, Excel sheets and ...
The construction industry has long grappled with the challenge of effective project scheduling. Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, while powerful, has often been the domain of specialized ...
Your cover story, Critics Can't Find the Logic in Many of Today's CPM Schedules, paints a disheartening picture of the current state of CPM schedules (ENR 5/26 p. 30). It's only 46 years since Morgan ...
We've covered work load management, estimating, inventory control and labor. The next basic is job scheduling. So, you were either invited to bid a job, awarded a street bid job through the Blue Book ...
In a relatively recent case, Metcalf Construction Co. v. U.S., 107 Fed. Cl. 786 (2012), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims once again looked to the critical path method (CPM) in determining the ...
The advent of ever-more powerful software has relieved contractors of tedious work ranging from bookkeeping to taxes to estimating. Time that used to be spent manually crunching numbers for these and ...
ProjectTeam, Inc., developer of the award-winning and FedRAMP-authorized construction management platform ProjectTeam.com, announces the release of its most advanced feature to date: the Schedules ...
Project management generally requires directing a series of time-limited activities and tasks to meet project objectives. Proper scheduling, resource management and monitoring is critical. One of the ...
Early in 2021, construction companies needed to hire an additional 430,000 craft professionals. Additionally, the AGC found that 89% of contractors had difficulty finding skilled workers and that 88% ...
The coined phrase “time is money” especially applies in the construction industry. Construction participants go to great lengths to build their projects on time and avoid delay costs. To facilitate ...