From financial dashboards to factory-based assembly, utilities and their contractors are deploying new tools and processes to improve project cost performance. In decades past, the decision to pursue ...

What if someone told you that you could save thousands of dollars on your next project before you even break ground? Would you believe such a grand statement? You should. What many contractors don't ...

Schedule compression. Within the construction industry, this term has a sort of dual identity. For some contractors, it is a useful tool, one to be implemented sparingly but which can help get a ...

All electrical projects start with a schedule or, at the very least, some basic milestone dates. Meeting these dates is the simple, strategic goal of any project. Keeping the project on that schedule ...

Every construction and engineering project, regardless of its scale, hinges on a single critical element: the schedule. It’s more than a timeline; it’s the multidimensional blueprint that guides every ...

Although often used interchangeably, the terms "project planning" and "project scheduling" are two entirely different pieces of the structure of the task. Each plays a role in getting a project to ...

Inside the bag of tricks all general contractors have there is one that is their stealth weapon for ensuring you do exactly what they want you to on their project. That weapon is the official project ...

When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District (MED) was awarded the USACE Project Delivery Team of the Year award recently, many on the team attributed some of that success to the ...

Mac users who rely on AEC Software’s FastTrack Schedule to get a handle on project management have gone nearly four years without a major upgrade to the venerable program. Version 9 of the project ...