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Residential projects: 5 mistakes project managers don’t know they are making

Lets Build

The reason is that they lack a clear, real-time connection both to the master schedule and the 3-6 week lookaheads. One of your main responsibilities as a project manager is to create and maintain a regular rhythm to your project. To make that happen, you need to plan ahead and strategically schedule tasks in manageable chunks.

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The Secret Sauce to Protecting Construction Profits  

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Bank failures, rising interest rates, high material prices, and labor crunches are all making it more challenging for construction companies to protect, let alone, improve their margins. Made for mobile , which empowers field teams to stay in the know and get more things done on the jobsite. And the pressure is rising.

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Why construction should stop thinking of software as a cost

Lets Build

Project Managers who focus on construction-specific solutions have better chances of succeeding in a project as they will be able to establish a real-time communication flow and seamlessly connect the lookahead planning with the master schedule. Acquisitions and mergers appear to be the main driving force for this wave of investment.

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Pulse: 08/20/2012

ENR Construction

Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Survey Schedule. The project entails building four buildings, including a main building, a cold storage building, car and truck washing facilities and a fueling island. Phase-one construction is scheduled for completion by December 2012. Gulf Oil Spill. -->. Building Types.

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20 construction industry trends to watch in 2020

Building Radar

Some software products specialize in scheduling, others in collaboration. But even beyond BIM, the cloud in the construction industry enables a shared team room as an online workspace – also via mobile devices – for correspondence, documentation and archiving, making project work much easier.

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Collaborative planning in construction: Get your teams to work seamlessly together 

Lets Build

Or in other words, data that isn’t connected to the 3-6 week planning and to the master schedule. Even if you achieve to submit your update in real time, delays or mistakes might not be avoided as it will not be linked to the latest live schedule. More importantly, it should be inextricably linked to the project’s schedule.

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How to track progress and communicate problems from the field

Lets Build

The reason is their inability to provide stakeholders with field updates that are seamlessly connected to the different project schedules. Because at the end of the day, if you stick to your schedule you will also stick to your budget. Only then, you can feel sure that your schedule reflects reality at any given time.

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