When a project is running exactly as predicted, there is no time variance to worry about. When events are happening ahead of schedule or behind schedule, you have a variance, which could pose ...

A T-minus schedule doesn't rely on any special skills. Instead, it simply requires that you set goals for a few days, a few weeks and a few months before your business project's deadline. This can ...

A Gantt chart is a visual representation of a project schedule, showing the start and finish date of several elements of a ...

When documents are requested for review on a project, it is common for the contractor to provide a non-native (i.e. Portable Document Format, or “.PDF”) file of project schedule information rather ...

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 ...

Construction project schedules have come a long way since the 1950s, when the critical path method of graphing milestones, activities and logic ties using algorithms to analyze work progress began to ...

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 ...

Commodore Builders, based in Boston (USA), is a veteran-owned construction company with an annual revenue of over $550 million. The primary market segment of the company includes commercial, corporate ...

A very common task incorporated into a commissioning process during the early stages of construction is schedule coordination. The task includes the commissioning provider working with the ...