Welcome to a periodic feature called "Future Fridays," in which we will explore interesting technology and other innovations from the cutting edge of...
Welcome to a periodic feature called "Future Fridays," in which we will explore interesting technology and other innovations from the cutting edge of construction and engineering - and perhaps catch a glimpse of the world of tomorrow. This week's feature highlights an unusual robotics project that could dramatically change the way certain kinds of structures are designed and built. An article from 3DPrint.com explores the On Site Robotics project from the Institute for...
Welcome to a periodic feature called "Future Fridays," in which we will explore interesting technology and other innovations from the cutting edge of construction and engineering - and perhaps catch...
McCarthy Building Companies is a national construction company specializing in self-performed work. With offices throughout the U.S., McCarthy serves an array...
McCarthy Building Companies is a national construction company specializing in self-performed work. With offices throughout the U.S., McCarthy serves an array of markets, including health care, education/higher ed, laboratory and science, commercial, government, renewable energy and heavy/civil construction. In this segment, McCarthy planning and scheduling directors discuss the builder's journey to enterprise-wide use of Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio...
McCarthy Building Companies is a national construction company specializing in self-performed work. With offices throughout the U.S., McCarthy serves an array of markets, including health...
Burns & McDonnell is a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental, and consulting solutions firm. The Kansas City, Mo.-based company's...
Burns & McDonnell is a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental, and consulting solutions firm. The Kansas City, Mo.-based company's 5,700 employees help clients plan, design, build, and manage facilities around the world. In this segment, department managers Tarkan Yuksel and Christopher P. O’Grady discuss how Primavera Unifier in the cloud helps Burns & McDonnell to connect clients' systems and develop complex business processes to improve project...
Burns & McDonnell is a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental, and consulting solutions firm. The Kansas City, Mo.-based company's 5,700 employees help clients...
Alectra Utilities, which provides electrical power and related services to around one million residential and commercial customers in Ontario, has transformed...
Alectra Utilities, which provides electrical power and related services to around one million residential and commercial customers in Ontario, has transformed its program management with Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. In this video, Zoran Dabic, director of program delivery for the utility, discusses the benefits his organization realizes by using the cloud service from Oracle Construction and Engineering.
Alectra Utilities, which provides electrical power and related services to around one million residential and commercial customers in Ontario, has transformed its program management with Primavera P6...
What is a project controls solution, and how much should it cost? If those are the two questions you start with when you talk about project controls systems,...
What is a project controls solution, and how much should it cost? If those are the two questions you start with when you talk about project controls systems, you aren’t asking the right questions. The right questions are, “What is a project controls solution, and how much value will it deliver?” What is a project controls solution? To answer the first part of the question, the project controls solution is part of a people + process + technology system that provides an...
What is a project controls solution, and how much should it cost? If those are the two questions you start with when you talk about project controls systems, you aren’t asking the right questions. The...
Vital signs are strong today in the construction industry, but that doesn’t mean things are easy or success is guaranteed. Project owners demand faster builds;...
Vital signs are strong today in the construction industry, but that doesn’t mean things are easy or success is guaranteed. Project owners demand faster builds; skilled trade resources are increasingly scarce; and costs – both real and reputational – mount when projects are delayed. These factors and more exert considerable pressure on already narrow margins. Today, 70% of projects come in over budget and are delivered late. In addition, cash flow challenges continue to...
Vital signs are strong today in the construction industry, but that doesn’t mean things are easy or success is guaranteed. Project owners demand faster builds; skilled trade resources are increasingly...
New Lean Construction and Capital Improvement Program capabilities enhance comprehensive, cloud-based project success platform Oracle Construction and...
New Lean Construction and Capital Improvement Program capabilities enhance comprehensive, cloud-based project success platform Oracle Construction and Engineering has unveiled the latest innovations to Oracle Prime Projects Cloud Service. Announced March 20 at Oracle Industry Connect in Orlando, Fla., the new Oracle Prime Projects capabilities, Oracle Lean Scheduling Solution and Oracle Capital Improvement Program Solution, deliver new project execution and capital planning...
New Lean Construction and Capital Improvement Program capabilities enhance comprehensive, cloud-based project success platform Oracle Construction and Engineering has unveiled the latest innovations...
Downer Group, a $7 billion engineering, construction, and maintenance company, a few years ago realized that its growth-by-acquisition strategy had a cost...
Downer Group, a $7 billion engineering, construction, and maintenance company, a few years ago realized that its growth-by-acquisition strategy had a cost beyond what it had spent on the deals themselves. In a Forbes article about Downer, Chief Planner Douglas Marr explains that a series of acquisitions over the years had led to "a siloed approach to our project management methodology." In 2012, Downer launched an organization-wide centralization and standardization effort to...
Downer Group, a $7 billion engineering, construction, and maintenance company, a few years ago realized that its growth-by-acquisition strategy had a cost beyond what it had spent on the deals...
In the following interview, Mark Jenkins, director of product strategy for Oracle Construction and Engineering, discusses the benefits to construction firms of...
In the following interview, Mark Jenkins, director of product strategy for Oracle Construction and Engineering, discusses the benefits to construction firms of using a combination of critical path method (CPM) scheduling and Lean Construction techniques, and he explores how Oracle is enabling organizations to fully integrate these approaches. Q: What's behind the growing interest in Lean construction methods? A: Lean construction offers methods for significantly increasing...
In the following interview, Mark Jenkins, director of product strategy for Oracle Construction and Engineering, discusses the benefits to construction firms of using a combination of critical path...
