Guides for construction project managers

Earned value, critical path, look-ahead, change orders, progress billing: the PMP methods, applied to a real job site, with worked examples. Written for project managers who run construction projects, in plain terms.

• Earned value management in construction: a project manager's guide

  PV, EV, AC, CPI, SPI, EAC and VAC explained for construction project managers, with a worked example on a $6.5M building project.

  Cost management, earned value

  6 min read

• Critical path and baseline: reading a construction schedule that slips

  The critical path method for construction schedules: float, baseline versus current, schedule variance and how to read a slipping finish date.

  Schedule management, critical path method

  5 min read

• The three-week look-ahead: running the next 15 working days of a job site

  How to build and run a three-week look-ahead in weekly site meetings: constraints, procurement, RFIs and change orders, with an example.

  Schedule management, short-interval planning

  5 min read

• Change order management: integrated change control on a construction project

  Integrated change control applied to construction: request, pricing, approval, budget and schedule impact, and a change log that holds up.

  Integrated change control, change orders

  6 min read

• Progress billing and holdback: how to bill a construction project each period

  How to prepare a construction progress billing from a schedule of values: previous, this period, to date, balance, and holdback or retainage.

  Contract and cost management, progress billing

  6 min read

• How to choose a construction project management platform

  Excel and MS Project or an integrated construction project management platform? The criteria that matter to a project manager, and how to test them.

  Tools and methods, platform selection

  6 min read

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