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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Construction projects come big and complex as well as small and simple, but one thing they all share is a construction phase plan. The construction phase plan is a critical construction project management document that helps to ensure a safe project. What Is a Construction Phase Plan?

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MARCH 21, 2024

This is true in other industries where maintenance planning is essential to successful projects and productivity. What do we mean when we say maintenance planning? We’ll explain and show how it differs from maintenance scheduling. What Is Maintenance Planning? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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MARCH 6, 2024

While Tableau doesn’t have project management features, you can still use it to make a Gantt chart. In this blog, we’ll learn how to make a Gantt chart in Tableau and explore its key features and limitations. ProjectManager’s Gantt chart is a robust project planning, scheduling and tracking tool.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Construction projects must adhere to many codes and regulations. Before a construction project can be completed, it must pass a building inspection. Building inspections vary, but they’re part of the construction process for commercial, residential and industrial projects. This must be all planned.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Construction sites are busy with subcontractors and other crews working on various smaller projects that will lead to the final build. One of the tasks of the general contractor is to track those work hours to manage labor costs and keep everyone paid. This is done with a construction timesheet.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Managing the workforce in a construction project is a complicated endeavor. Resources in construction are managed by construction resource management. There are many different types of construction resources beyond labor and we’ll define them as well as the process for construction resource management.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Even worse, you have a bunch of tasks that haven’t been completed, invoices to file and reports to create. If this is your case, a personal kanban board could help you plan, schedule and track all these tasks so you can manage your workload without feeling overwhelmed. Here’s how it works. What Is Personal Kanban?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When viewing construction, one commonly recognizes three sectors: residential, commercial and infrastructure. For example, commercial construction can be classified into three subcategories of retail, office, multifamily and industrial construction. What Is Industrial Construction?

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

In construction, there are many hats or hard hats as the case may be. It has to be designed by an architect and planned by a general contractor. One of the most important, but less heralded positions is that of the construction superintendent. What Is a Construction Superintendent?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 19, 2024

Managers want to stay on budget and resources cost money, which is why they use a request for quote (RFQ) to get pricing from suppliers and contractors. Setting a baseline captures your schedule and costs so you can track that planned effort against your actual effort in real time. We’ll show you why and when you need to use an RFQ.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

The project budget is developed during the planning phase of a project. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software, but our website is a hub for all things project-related. We publish weekly blogs on the topic, and have in-depth guides, tutorial videos and free project management templates for Excel and Word.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There are four types of construction projects: commercial construction, industrial construction, infrastructure construction and residential construction. Residential construction might be the easiest for laypeople to understand as most of us live in these types of structures.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is doubly true with construction projects in what’s called post-construction. What is post-construction? We’ll answer that first and then explain what activities occur during post-construction and the various types of documentation that are used. What Is Post-Construction? Here are some of the most important.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2023

There’s more than one way to manage a construction project. From the world of manufacturing comes an approach called lean construction. But lean manufacturing and lean construction are two different things. Let’s explore lean construction, defining what it is and its key principles. What Is Lean Construction?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether you’re interested in a career in construction or looking to fill an open position in your construction management company, there are a lot of entry points. Below, you’ll find the top 10 construction job titles. Construction roles are very rewarding. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 13, 2024

Being able to plan, manage and track those resources to meet the needs of a business is called project ERP or enterprise resource planning (ERP) project management. There are software projects designed for project ERP, but before we get to that, let’s define the term and how it differs from traditional ERP solutions.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Construction project management has five phases, the same as any project. Construction phases have different names and require different documentation to begin with. We’ll define in depth each of the five construction phases: initiation, pre-construction, procurement, construction and post-construction.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Construction planning and management requires strong project management skills and the right tools. Not having these two key elements has resulted in statistics like nine out of every 10 construction projects run out of funds before they’re complete. What is a construction management plan?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2023

Construction costs are one of many metrics that a general contractor has to keep an eye on. But if the construction cost goes over budget, that’s coming out of the contractor’s pocket. That’s why construction cost management is so important. What Is Construction Cost Management?

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Construction sites are a complex orchestration of many different skills executed by many different subcontractors. If you’re a construction project management company looking to hire a site engineer you’ll need to have a thorough job description to caption the right candidate. What Is a Site Engineer?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But is Power BI good for project management? To answer that, let’s first review the Power BI Gantt chart, which is one of its key project management features. We’ll explain how to get this custom Power BI visual, add it to your report and use it to create a Gantt chart in more detail below.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 18, 2023

Construction projects are complicated. In order for those surprises to impact the construction plan as minimally as possible, the industry uses something called a construction change order. All projects have change orders, but what is a construction change order and when should you use it? Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When governments or corporations make large investments, they don’t do so without serious planning. Let’s take a look at capital projects, explore the idea of a capital asset and delve into the process of capital planning. We’ll end with a few examples of capital projects to make the concept more understandable.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Project documentation, such as the project budget, project schedule or project plan, is critical for the successful delivery of projects. Because of that, as a project manager, you should be familiar with tools to create your project documents. For example, you can create a Gantt chart in Word.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2022

If you’re not in construction, you might assume that projects start with bulldozers, front loaders and cranes rolling onto the site. As the name implies, preconstruction is the phase that occurs before the build, and it’s critical to the success of the construction project. But first, let’s start with a definition.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

The kanban tool has become commonplace in project management and its uses continue to expand. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development. What Is Kanban?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

When a project is planned, a set of steps are outlined to deliver a product or service. Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them. What Are Resource Requirements in Project Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Shiny new tech is always a topic of conversation, and there’s a lot of chatter around AI in project management at the moment. For project managers , in particular, smart glasses have the potential to change the way you juggle tasks, access and visualize data, and communicate with teammates and stakeholders.

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MAY 10, 2023

Construction projects are unique in that they require architectural drawings. These construction drawings are used for new construction, remodeling and nearly every type of construction project you can imagine. An architectural drawing can be a sketch, plan, diagram or schematic. What Is an Architectural Drawing?

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Managing a program or portfolio of projects involves many things, but utmost importance should be given to resource management, especially organizational resources. Resource planning, resource allocation and resource utilization are all under the umbrella term of organizational resources. What Are Organizational Resources?

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APRIL 26, 2023

Construction companies have to do some heavy lifting, and that’s not just the steel and concrete they use to erect buildings, bridges and other structures. There are many different types of materials and labor that go into their work that requires their contracts to have construction specifications.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 13, 2021

Few things are as risky as construction. There is heavy equipment, crews working in precarious situations and complicated logistics to manage. How do you meet your deadline while managing all that risk? The answer is construction risk management. What Is Construction Risk Management?

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JUNE 4, 2021

Any construction project, no matter the size or scope, requires a wide range of documents. These documents must be thorough and clear, and using construction excel templates guarantees each document includes all the information it needs. . Construction Proposal Template. This is how owners choose contractors.

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JULY 4, 2023

All projects use reporting to monitor progress and performance, but in construction reporting is especially important. Construction reports are more varied and chart everything from project status to incidents and compliance. First, let’s define what construction reporting is and then explain why construction reports are so important.

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APRIL 5, 2023

There’s much to plan in construction. For example, the construction site. The building site requires site inspection, construction site safety and more. Let’s take a closer look at this often-neglected side of construction project management. What Is a Construction Site? What Is Site Planning?

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Construction projects will never get off the ground without financing. Money sets the gears of construction management in motion. Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. What Is a Construction Budget?

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Construction projects must be well orchestrated. Contractor management is a process to manage the contractors and make sure they’re doing what they need to do, when they need to do it and meeting quality standards. Being able to manage outside contractors is facilitated by the use of project management software.

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