Posts by: Shabna Madala
How an EDMS Aligns Contractor and Design Teams
In a typical construction project only a very small percent of the total project budget is allocated to the management of information handover between the design and contractor teams, despite the fact that information handover…
- 04 May 2023
The Importance of a Dedicated Engineering Document Management System (EDMS) – (Part – 2)
With many design and construction companies these days looking to EDMS solutions to help them manage their data, it needs to be acknowledged that not all EDMS are created equal. A Standard EDMS cannot support…
- 15 Feb 2023
Why You Need a Non-Generic EDMS (Part – 1)
With more and more EPC companies looking into EDMS solutions to manage their data we need to acknowledge that not all EDMS are created equal. An EDMS built specifically for the purpose of managing engineering…
- 08 Feb 2023
Engineering Document Management: Ensuring Compliance
Ensuring compliance is a critical success factor in design projects. Pro006Aect teams must ensure that everybody in the process correctly follows the regulatory & quality standards down to the last detail, including all the industry,…
- 25 Jan 2023
Challenges in Project Controls (Part – 3)
In the previous blog Project Controls: Challenges & Solutions, we looked at some challenges in project controls with regards to productivity loss, manual estimation errors, optimism bias etc. In this post, let’s talk about how…
- 18 Jan 2023
Project Controls: Challenges & Solutions (Part – 2)
In the previous blog post, Project Controls: Challenges Solutions in Mega Infra Projects we saw how project monitoring and controlling is still carried out manually using the traditional practice of excel sheets. In this post,…
- 04 Jan 2023
Project Controls: Challenges & Solutions in Mega Infra Projects (Part – 1)
If you had to spend 3 to 4 hours sending out an engineering deliverables tracker, how much would that affect your productivity? We know that preparation and circulation of Engineering Deliverables Tracker is a regular…
- 21 Dec 2022
Avoid Scope Creep And Disputes Using a Digital Platform
The topic reminds me of an incident: during the execution of an office project where the inauguration was a mere 3 weeks away, the client’s facility management head suddenly decided to share his idea of…
- 15 Nov 2022
Procurement: The Post-Order Phase
In a previous blog post titled “How Procurement Delays Hold Up Project Completion” we looked at some of the challenges that can occur during the procurement processes of the pre-order phase. However, such challenges are…
- 03 Nov 2022
Common Causes of Budget Overruns in Construction Projects
Overshooting the project budget is every construction company’s nightmare but sadly not an uncommon one. In this post I will explore why projects so frequently go over budget. First, the most obvious bottleneck – Design….
- 13 Jun 2022
