Process, Technology and People

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 [...]

SAFETY = LESS WASTE = LOWER COST

Fortunately, the importance of safety has been understood in the construction industry in general, although safety procedures are still lacking in some projects and especially in some countries.
Good safety on site is not only an issue of keeping accidents to a minimum, but it is also a cost saving to the project.
Consider the consequences of [...]

Heavy Industry Construction Projects

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 [...]

Member of THTH

Riqq Innovation was accepted to become a member of THTH this week. THTH (THTH Association of Decentralized Information Management for Industry) is an organisation where the Finnish companies and academia try to solve the problems of projectwide information management in industrial projects.
I participated in the annual meeting where I briefly presented our company. I was [...]

Lean Construction

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. [...]

Security is vital also in a building project

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 [...]

Construction waste management

Whilst participating in the Institute of Clerk of Works conference in Glasgow, Scotland on April 25th to 27th I attended an interesting seminar regarding construction waste management: exploring ways of reducing waste from the design stage all the way to the to the end of life concluding with the effects that this has on buildings [...]

Will the budget hold?

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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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 [...]