Project Management Arbitration

Quality Assurance Enabled Safety Systems in Construction: Part 2

Vivek Singh, Proprietor and Pradeep Kumar Pathak, Director-EHS & ESG, BuildStreet Project Management Services, elaborate on elements that collectively enhance safety frameworks, making them compliant and resilient.

Cloud-Based Construction Project Management and Collaboration: Trimble

Cloud-based construction management systems are revolutionizing the Construction Industry by creating a unified platform where stakeholders can collaborate effortlessly. Unlike traditional tools, cloud platforms centralize

Quality-Assured Safety System in Construction

Vivek Singh, Proprietor, BuildStreet (Project Management Services) and Deepak Gupta, expert in Quality Management explore the essential components of a quality-assured safety system, emphasizing the importance of leadership

Cost Optimisation During Construction Project Engineering

Cost optimisation is critical to any construction project, whether concrete or steel buildings. These buildings require considerable resources, time, and efforts to design and build, and optimising their costs can ensure that the project

Importance of Proper Storage for Quality of Construction Projects

Vivek Singh, Founder, BuildStreet Project Management Services, explores how effective storage practices align with and contribute to the quality objectives of construction projects, ensuring long-term success and sustainability.

Construction Claims: Root Causes & Avoidance

Construction projects are growing in number and becoming more complex, leading to long construction times, and involvement of many stakeholders. Projects today require highly specialized designs, detailed plans and specifications

Managing Construction Risks: Ways to Ensure Timely Project Delivery

The construction industry is a complex and ever-evolving sector that plays a vital role in shaping our infrastructure and communities, however, it is also fraught with challenges that can arise unexpectedly, from unpredictable weather

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