Posts by: Shabna Madala
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
Construction Project Management Guide: What is Contract Monitoring in Construction Projects?
We all know that a contract is an agreement between two or more parties that lays out goals & commitments, budget & schedules, materials & techniques, contingency and conflict management plans (ie what happens if…
- 10 May 2022
Why Doing Pre-qualification Through Email Is Tedious: Things You Should Know
When preparing a procurement schedule, you need to consider a timeline for each task under procurement. But does that ever go according to plan? In my experience of doing procurement, the actual completion date usually…
- 05 Apr 2022
