Due Diligence & Technical Audits: Save Billions in Construction
Construction, particularly of critical infrastructure projects like dams, barrages, and tunnels, require due diligence and technical audits for identifying risks, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing project execution.
Vulnerability Atlas of India by BMTPC: Unique Tool For Disaster Management
Brought out by BMTPC, the Vulnerability Atlas of India, is the only document to tabulate damage risk to housing stock across regions of India. It highlights areas prone to natural hazards like earthquakes, high winds, cyclones
Delay Analysis in Construction Project Disputes
Accurate identification of the root causes of project delays and the allocation of responsibility among the parties involved, is crucial for effective project management. By adopting best practices and conducting detailed analyses
Overcoming Delays in Large Infrastructure Construction Projects
The key to rapid construction project speed & overcoming delays lies in transitioning from project management to flow management for effective collaboration amongst all the stakeholders.
Life Cycle Assessment of Construction Projects to Enhance Sustainability
An evaluation of the environmental impacts associated with a project across its entire lifecycle - from raw material extraction and processing to construction, operation, and maintenance, enables stakeholders to identify opportunities
Integrated Automation Platforms in Project Management Improve Efficiency
Automation creates efficiency by optimising and not replacing, human effort and should therefore be welcomed by organisations seeking to improve their project delivery record. Varghese Daniel, Co-Founder & CEO Wrench Solutions
Managing Cost and Time Overruns of Megaprojects
Megaprojects are large-scale, complex ventures that take many years to develop and build, involve public and private stakeholders, and transform the area in which they are located. They have a higher value, a higher level of aspiration, longer lead
Effective Materials Management in Construction Projects
While materials count for a considerable amount of construction costs, the way materials are managed seems to be improvised rather than approached methodically. In the construction industry, one of the common challenges people face
Sustainable Operations Management of High-Rise Project
With an ambition of providing housing for all citizens in India, the drive towards resource efficiency building operations is all-time high given the constraints in allocation of resources and their utilization, writes Mamta Rawat of Conserve
Benefits of Project Management in Developing India's Infrastructure
During the past couple of years, India has enjoyed the privilege of being amongst the most favored investment destinations of the world. With the sharp vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and compelling
Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 Provisions & Legal Issues
In a significant development for Indian arbitration law, the President of India has formally adopted the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 (the "Ordinance"), which will bring about major and long-awaited reforms to arbitration in India. The Ordinance amends Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 and seeks in particular to eliminate
Redefining India – Accelerating Infrastructure Projects Through Project Management
In the last two decades, India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. According to a Citi group report, following the reforms undertaken by Government of India, the GDP is
A Study of Constructability Issues Related to Various Stages of Design and Construction Process
The increasing levels of competition and the introduction of manufacturing concepts within the industry led to specialization. Such specialization led to the separation of design and construction facilities. The increasing complexity of many projects makes it more and more difficult for the designers to be fully aware of all the implications of their
Model for Processing Construction Claims
With growing standards, advanced technologies, and owner-desired additions and changes, construction projects are becoming more and more complex, while the successful completion of projects has been thought to depend mainly
Obligations of Parties & Provisions of Claims in Modern Construction Contracts
Construction contracts usually contain notice-of-claim provisions. The contractor must, within a stated period of time, notify the project owner in writing of any occurrence which may give rise to a claim for additional compensation under the contract. The policy behind these requirements is sound. Owners should have the opportunity to respond to
Termination of Contract Under Old FIDIC
Most commercial construction contracts include provisions allowing either party to terminate a contract for cause (also referred to as a termination for "default"). Unlike terminations for convenience,
Position of Engineer & Independent Engineer In Standard Forms of Contracts
The engineer is generally responsible for issuing the completion certificates and supervising any tests that have been contractually agreed as well as establishing that payments to the Contractor can be made, in funded
Study on Project Schedule and Cost Overruns - Expedite Infrastructure Projects
The KPMG in India – Project Management Institute (PMI) study was initiated on the request of MoSPI, which highlights the major reasons for schedule and cost overruns across major sector's infrastructure
PPP Audit of Infra Project - Importance and Implication
Purnima Bajpai, Reliance Infrastructure, Pune. A contentious issue in the context of PPP arrangements and their audit relates to the scope of audit by Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI), in view of the
Modern Data Collection Techniques for Management of Road Assets
It is now well established that decision on maintenance, rehabilitation and upgradation/ improvement measures needs to be based on an objective assessment (with an analytical approach) to
Management of Quality Quantity and Speed
Management is the need of today. Management has been included in various specialised fields now like environment, tourism, hotel, information technology etc. apart from traditional courses like finance, human resource, operation and marketing. In the management concept, management sets the goals based on quantities for individuals and performance
An Innovative Tool to Teach and Train
The world is expanding and indeed expanding at a breath neck pace, Expansion of our world requires construction of new Industries and Production process from commissioned industries. No
Augmenting Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Infrastructure Projects Through Project Management and Accountable Governance in India
India is only second among the emerging economies next to China. With an average GDP rate of 7.5% and upside, the demand to improvise infrastructure is magnanimous. The average spending capacity
Safety Planning and Administration
Theoretically Safety means the absence of danger at work which is made possible by eliminating hazards that create danger. ILO, in one of their documents, state "A thing is provisionally categorized as safe if the risks are deemed
A Legal Analysis of Some Clausal-Related Disputes in Construction Contracts
The contractor under a construction contract is invariably required to carry out and complete the project by a specified date. This requirement is often accompanied by an obligation to produce a construction programme and to keep it up to
Termination of Contract Under New FIDIC
The termination of a relationship in a construction contract can often come as a surprise causing both confusion and resentment. Negotiations can escalate into protracted and costly disputes. Employers believe their
Construction / Project Management For Highway Tunnels
The topic under discussion has two aspects: (1) Construction of road tunnel, (2) its operation after completion of the job. It is understood that the present issue which is under examination pertains to Rohtang Pass Highway
Enterprising Approaches in the Successful Construction of a Toll Motorway (East Link) Through Suburban Melbourne, Australia
A 39 kilometer toll motorway was constructed on budget (A$2.5 billion) and five months ahead of time. It was opened in June 2008. This project involved 17 interchanges, 88 bridges and twin three lane, 1.6 km tunnels. It has
Safety Management System
When the relevance of human resource component from the point of 'safe' or unsafe outcomes' is examined critically, the following statistics (of course, not collated in the recent past) brings up certain important issues.
Effective Contract Management: Some Important Issues and Suggestions
Compared to the manufacturing sector, the construction industry is almost unique where the "Project is sold before it is made." Instead it can be said that each individual contract is different from the other & contains a degree of distinctiveness
