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On 15th November 2022, we celebrated the 4th edition of the Global/UK Project Controls Expo Awards and announced the well-deserving winners at Wembley Stadium.

 

The Chartered Project Professional standard is a benchmark that recognises the achievement of a defined level of technical knowledge, professional practice and ethical behaviour.

Bruce Power, one of Canada’s most reputable nuclear power generation companies, was planning to run several large extension and maintenance projects that would take place over the next couple of decades. With the continuing debate on energy prices, it has been vital to be predictable in cost estimates for Bruce Power.

This year the project controls most prestigious awards’ competition continued to grow, with an exceptional number of entries received from around the globe. On Thursday 1st September a total of 26 finalists were announced for the Global/UK Project Controls Expo Awards 2022.

 

Earlier this year, LogiKal launched its annual project controls and digital insights survey report looking at key trends and developments in the project controls and construction industry.

NEC Publishes final version of new X29 secondary option to help tackle climate change a very encouraging development, but, as always, the devil is in the detail

Last year, ARES PRISM encouraged their members to participate in a short survey on how sustainability was impacting the project management industry. They are pleased to announce that the formal industry report is now available for download.

The aim of this paper is to explain how the P6 Duration Typeand the options set in the User Preferences, Calculations, Resource Assignmentstab affect the resource assignment process and task resource calculations. These options are useful to understand so when you change the duration of an activity you know if the crew size will remain the same or the work assigned to an activity will remain the same.

 

The Project Controls Expo Awards are a celebration of project controls’ excellence. This year there are a total of eight categories, each concentrating on a particular area, whether it is based on an individual's accomplishment, a project, a programme, or an organisation.

The human brain spontaneously underestimates variance. For whatever reason, humans seem hardwired for this, sometimes with disastrous results.