Construction owners include a wide range of individuals, corporations, and governments. Their knowledge in construction project management also differs vastly. Owners hire contractors to build projects for them obviously because the contractor possesses the knowledge and capability to do so. The question remains: what is the Owner’s role in monitoring the project, and how can he/she/they do it
Optimum Scheduling: Thinking Outside Of the Construction Schedule
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In the summer of 2008, I took a job as a project controls manager for a mega project in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. When looking at the CPM (Critical Path Method) schedule for the project, I saw huge excavation activities scheduled during that summer. Immediately, I thought of productivities under burning heat with temperature reaching and exceeding 50? Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). My first reaction
