In May 2001, FIATECH launched a Strategic Focus Area on eBusiness for Capital Facilities, (eB4CF). This program group investigated the barriers to achieving successful eBusiness capabilities and conducted a detailed analysis of work processes, information flows, and data trans...
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3/2/2020 4:35:25 PM
Research Team UMM-01 (RT-UMM-01) defines standardization as the development and use of consistent designs to align project stakeholders, objectives, and scope to capture and optimize schedule, cost, and value. Previous CII research has recognized the shipbuilding industry for ...
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6/7/2019 2:14:50 PM
Research Summary 305-1 provides an overview of how Research Team 305 (RT-305) worked to define, measure, and suggest management strategies for project complexity. Through a structured research process of working to understand the problem, a literature review, development of a ...
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9/15/2017 1:42:18 PM
This research team analyzed craft availability in the United States and Canada and its impact on the construction projects performance focusing on cost, schedule, and safety.At the strategic level, RT318 followed two parallel paths to investigate the labor cliff. Following a l...
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5/4/2016 2:20:24 PM
Research Team 192 (RT-192) was commissioned as a follow-up to the Engineering Productivity measurement Research Team (RT-156). Their primary objective was to continue development of a standardized productivity measurement methodology.The focus of RT-192 remained on the evaluat...
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2/7/2016 6:13:51 AM
RT-319 was chartered to make the case for Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) as a CII Best Practice, to extend and validate the findings of RT-272 Advanced Work Packaging. AWP is a disciplined approach to project planning and execution to increase project performance and predictabi...
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5/4/2016 2:22:20 PM
As the number and size of mega-projects continue to increase across all sectors of the capital projects industry, one fact stands out: they tend to underperform more often than not whether because they fail to keep within their approved budgets, follow their approved schedules...
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2/7/2016 6:18:44 AM
This Topic has been superseded by RT-230 This research team focused on proving that there is value in managing organizational knowledge. Knowledge originates from the experiences of the elements of an organization and is retained in the form of corporate memory. Through their...
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2/7/2016 6:11:18 AM
Quality Management DefinitionThe function responsible to support Project Management in developing and executing Quality Assurance and Quality Control measures across all phases of the project and spanning all function. Most Quality Control measures are executed by the discipl...
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2/15/2016 10:41:23 PM
Changes and the resulting contract change orders are a source of concern to owners and contractors alike. Changes are an important contributor to cost overruns, schedule extensions, and contract acceleration. This research examines the quantitative effect of changes on labor p...
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6/6/2016 1:14:22 PM