Not long ago, creating a mobile project team simply meant setting everyone up with a cell phone.  As phones became smarter, wireless networks improved, and data plans came down in price, contractors began to make mobility more meaningful.  A new marketplace developed that offered construction-specific mobile apps for a variety of tasks, such as remote time entry, punch lists and even basic cost estimating. This quickly evolving technology has significant implications for how construction professionals communicate and perform their jobs. Additionally, the increasingly widespread use of smart devices is changing the playing field for mobile app and software providers alike.

Nonresidential construction spending, which totaled $779.6 billion on a seasonally adjusted annual basis in December, declined 1.2% but is up 4.4% on a year-ago basis.

Barrett Paving needed a collaborative way of sharing schedule information through their entire vertical value chain, while minimizing the out of office training time for staff. Learn about the combination of CDP products and solutions implemented

Effective project management is essential for the success of your business, so you need real-time visibility into each step of the project lifecycle.  This is especially true in the oil and gas industry, where companies are struggling to maintain profitability in the faces of growing costs, risks, and regulations.

That's why leading global oil and gas companies rely on Oracle's Primavera enterprise project portfolio management (EPPM) solutions.  Discover how you can use this solution to successfully plan, build, and manage your projects, as well as fuel your bottom line.

What can organizations with world-class project management teach the rest of us? How can you integrate your portfolio and project management processes in order to manage projects profitably, and ensure business value? Read this article and find out.

This paper will explore the ability of organizations to augment cash flow in their operations by addressing a key area of stagnant cash reserves – contingency budgets. It will argue that the collective pot of contingency monies is conservatively estimated at between 5–10% of total project operating costs across the portfolio. To free up even a small portion of these budgets can therefore help organizations expand their portfolios to decisive effect. Finally, it will also detail the way forward, and how a more flexible approach to setting contingency budgets requires the adoption of a portfolio approach to risk management.

Barrett Paving needed a collaborative way of sharing schedule information through their entire vertical value chain, and deployment and training had to take place quickly to take advantage of an off-season.  Learn about the combination of CDP products and solutions implemented.

This white paper will explore the direct link between the health of the portfolio and CEO performance. It will provide an overview of the responsibility the CEO has for implementing and maintaining a culture of accountability, offer examples of some of the higher profile project failings in recent years, and detail the capabilities available to the CEO to mitigate the risks residing in their own portfolios.

If you’re a sports fan, you’ve probably witnessed some dramatic mistakes and missteps on the playing field. These blunders occur when players don’t have (or don’t pay attention to) vital information. They occur when team members disregard teamwork, or when players forget that success can depend on factors beyond the level of an individual or team.

By John Chaney, co-founder, Dexter + Chaney

As a contractor, if you have even a modest investment in heavy equipment, then you have a significant stake in making sure that you are realizing a return on that investment. However, knowing your true costs and returns on construction equipment is not as simple a task as it appears on the surface. The good news is that there are reporting methods and tools available that help you drill down into the details of equipment management and provide you with information that drives money saving decisions.