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For those involved in engineering and construction projects, regardless of being the project owner, project management consultant, engineering consultant, contractor, subcontractor or supplier understand the challenges of ensuring the effective management of everyday project’s communications. This is even of greater challenge to the project management team for which it is estimated that approximately 70-90% of…

ARCAN Project Management Services (ARCAN) is one of the UAE successful Project Management Consulting (PMC) firms with operations that spread across different countries in the Gulf Cooperate Council (GCC) countries made the important decision to stop wasting the massive effort in managing everyday projects’ communications and the lack of real-time projects’ performance reporting by selecting…

Ensuring the quality of completed works on construction sites not only a must objective for achieving successful project delivery but also a contractual obligation for the contractor to comply with. The contract drawings and specifications are the two documents that details the quality requirements for a project. Drawings identify materials that will be used on…

No one can deny that the Middle East and North Africa region would be requiring trillions of dollars to reconstruct the ailing and damaged infrastructure. Funds will be needed to rebuild roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, universities, housing, commercial centers, utilities, factories among many other projects. Nevertheless, donners and investment agencies will not be willing to…

Construction Contractors who are keen on implementing the earned value method (EVM) technique to monitor and evaluate their projects’ performance understand that EVM cannot be implemented as is on lump sum contracts. Those contractors understand that the amount earned for completing works on site does not necessarily tally with the actual cost incurred in completing…

Many of the projects intensive organizations continue to waste their most valuable resources time and effort to solve their current projects’ performance report puzzle. A report that is a must to provide the insight to make informative decisions that could impact a project’s performance budget, completion date, quality of work among many other project’s success…

Financial institutions who are involved in providing finance for engineering and construction projects are now required more than ever to predict and report on the likelihood of loan default before it actually occurs. Project management standards have identified the best practices that must adopted to ensure robust cost variance at completion reporting. Those best practices…

Regardless of the project size or type an organization needs to deliver, reporting the project’s performance and status is a must requirement. The different project stakeholders might have different requirements for monitoring and evaluating how the project is performing but would usually cover aspects that relate to schedule, cost, quality, risk, issues among others. The…

With the growing trend among capital project owners in using ISO to enforce the adoption of quality, HSE and Sustainability best practices on their projects’ delivery, checklists tend to be the preferred method to perform the compliance audit. The audit checklist, which will be unique for each ISO practice, is used to assess the organization’s…

Regardless of your project type or size, projects need to be completed on time, within the approved budget while meeting the required quality standards. Similar to the other project management plans, the Project Quality Management Plan (PQMP) documents the necessary information required to effectively manage project quality during the construction stage. It defines the project’s…