The Missing Link to Bring Construction into the Future

[@StanJan]

Love your Chanell. 46 years in the biz. NYC, CT, VT, FL, DC.... You make an excellent point. Factual. Thank you. I will share this with the younger generation.

[@PlanAcademy]

Thanks so much Stan. Really glad to hear it. It's not going to be easy getting everyone on the 'same page'.

[@rudedog6868]

Great topic. This has been my biggest gripe after 25 years in the construction industry. We redesign the wheel every project. No standards equals higher cost and longer schedules.

[@PlanAcademy]

Thanks! This is so true - starting from scratch is the rule. I'm expecting some AI tools are going to shift this soon.

[@YRSHAHI]

Hey Mike, thanks for bringing this topic. Basis of Schedule is the most important document for project scheduling. Having access to historic database, adopting right estimating technique to predict duration, budget (manhours, cost) and timing (to establish logic) are key. Assumptions made should be clearly identified and used as variables which then will get maturity and refined for future projects. Project team need to spend more time on Lesson learnings and improvements. Also, I believe that contracts need to be finalized in phases especially to come up with more realistic projections. The problem I see is not related with the software but with Methodology in regards to project execution. Contractors are forced to tie up the project time-line based upon someone else's estimate during the tender stage and to win the contract, they must fit in SoW with that timeline. And all the problems start from there where once the contract is binded. Also, most project managers I've seen (atleast in Australia) are are not great with scheduling concepts and as they don't know, they don't want to go there and somehow feel inferior to collaborate with Planners and will keep ignoring the schedule. Project team don't seem to have interest collaborating especially while developing the schedule, when trying to update while impacting with changes, disruptions, delays and working to recover and forecasting burndowns in most of the projects I've worked. For any schedule to work, continuous improvement through collaboration is paramount. Have a good day.

[@Skymarshal]

Thanks Michael!

[@PlanAcademy]

You bet!

[@chrisalecia891]

This has been on my mind for years! I am a long time P3/P6 user. Will Ai enter scheduling? I'd say it must! Like your speaker said about parking lots - if I've built high-rise commercial buildings for 30 years shouldn't I be able to harness that history? What do you think of OPC (Primavera Cloud)? The idea of it is what you're discussing in this video. Many CM's and GC's have attempted to do this themselves through integrating several applications or even writing their own. All have pretty much failed consistently.

[@PlanAcademy]

Great comment, Chris. Agreed. There's some stuff about Oracle cloud we want to discuss in the future.

[@olisg5917]

This is a very interesting topic basically my main part of work I would go down and start from basic document control and upper level to project controls integrate the link between all disciplines definitely!

[@PlanAcademy]

yep yep yep!

[@davidmarron109]

There are too many proprietary standards in my view, and they don't integrate with each other. We should all be standardizing on (and building on) IFC