Owners must manage capital projects well to keep costs under control and ensure a high-quality product is delivered on time. Good communication, sound procedures and processes, and high-tech tools can ...

Project controls monitor and adjust the cost, schedule and scope of a project to ensure that it is completed within budget, on time and as planned. Quality controls check to make sure that the result ...

Workers conduct one of the heaviest lifts on record at a nuclear plant at the Sanmen nuclear power plant project in China’s Zhejiang province on June 29, 2009. The 1,020-ton auxiliary building ...

Poor quality management can place a permanent stain on any project. To avoid this, the project manager must first determine how the client or the project sponsor defines quality--and then follow suit.

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

Rework is a colossal denominator in cost overruns worldwide, Marco Fahd, Chairman and CEO of Versatile International, told Zawya Projects. Almost 30 percent of construction budgets are wasted on ...

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Staying consistent makes everything downstream run smoother Managing quality control in the field is akin to herding cats; it is exhausting, difficult and all but impossible The employee who takes the ...

The primary functions of project control are to complement programme management and provide support for oversight of projects including the formulation of a monitoring plan, quality assurance, and ...

Six Sigma is a quality management methodology used to help businesses improve current processes, products, or services by discovering and eliminating defects. The goal is to streamline quality control ...