Posts by: Shabna Madala
How to Choose Your Common Data Environment Solution
Common Data environments or CDEs have become popular with engineering companies in the last few years, but choosing the right CDE software for your project can be daunting. In this post, I will lay out…
- 18 Jan 2024
How to Get Started With Common Data Environment for BIM
What role does a CDE play in construction projects and how does it align with BIM? Let’s find out. First of all, what is a CDE? CDE stands for common data environment. It is nothing…
- 19 Dec 2023
Improve Your Design Process with Document Version Control
The first online EDMS solutions were difficult to update, and difficult to use, with problems like low user adoption, clumsy integrations, and inefficiencies in the way files got uploaded and stored because some of the…
- 21 Jun 2023
Ensuring Compliance with an EDMS
In an EPC project, ensuring that all the regulatory requirements country have been duly followed is one of the most challenging tasks your organization will face through the course of a project. However, with an…
- 06 Jun 2023
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
