Posted on July 23, 2008 by Teppo Grén
Attending the Global Institute of Lean Construction 16th annual meeting (IGLC16) in Manchester on July 15th to 18th, the most interesting topic for me was a paper presented by Research Fellow Bhargav Dave of Salford University. The title of the paper was “A critical look at integrating people, process and information systems within the construction [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2008 by Teppo Grén
The age old problem of managing the civil works on industrial projects became apparent yet again at the recent PowerGen Europe 2008 exhibition in Milan on June 3-5th, 2008.
The usual comment received from process automation people regarding civil works is that it always goes over budget and causes problems. Civil works seem to be regarded [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2008 by Janne Saarikko
Let’s face it. I hate computer files. They cause nothing but problems. When your data is stored on a file (regardless of the format), there will eventually be a new version of it. And because you did sent that previous version out, you will have to resend this one as well. If you remember.
Ok. There [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by Janne Saarikko
A very common question that everybody needs to face in their life. People will try to hold onto it, and most of the time they will.
But not in the business of building. In the beginning there is a budget, which has good reasoning for it. And then – very, very often in the end the [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by Janne Saarikko
Welcome!
This is a blog for those interesting in solving the huge paradigm of effective management of a building project.
We have been fed up for some time with the fact that many, many buildings are being finished late from the schedule, over the budget and with lower than expected quality.
We believe that these problems can be solved.
We [...]
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