Posted on August 18, 2008 by Janne Saarikko
Whenever you are making any desicion to change or add anything that incfluences your construction project, you should always keep in mind who it effects the whole project. A very important question to ask is “How this will improve my whole project organisation?”
Let’s take software as an example. If you are getting a new design [...]
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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 21, 2008 by Teppo Grén
Advanced project management processes have been developed a long time ago. For example, the theory for the widely acknowledged “lean construction” methodology leading to the “Last Planner” production planning system was introduced as far back as 1992. The publication of “Rethinking Construction“, also known as the “Egan Report” in the United Kingdom occurred in 1998. [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2008 by Janne Saarikko
A new serious vulnerability notice was announced yesterday. Core Security announced a DOS (denial-of-service) vulnerability in the Wonderware Suitelink software suite. This vulnerability allows hackers to remotely cause the software to terminate. Suitelink is a SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) software that controls the process automation in major facilities such as power stations.
DHS/US-CERT has also made [...]
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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 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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