Useful Construction Resources - Project-management
Crossrail lessons learnt
1 April, 2020
Construction News article on some of the early lessons to be learnt from Crossrail - in this instance over optimism in reporting
Project management
Rail
Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed
1 April, 2020
Not an obvious choice of reading for the Construction industry, however a fascinating read. See the attached extracts for a few interesting items. My take from this book was that open and no blame discussion can produce step change improvement
Construction management
Project management
Covid-19 Insight Navigating a new world. A paper by MACE May 2020.
10 May, 2020
Managing the impact and risks on the construction industry.
Project management
Programme
COVID-19
AI could manage construction projects - An article from the RICS Modus magazine February 2019.
10 May, 2020
Artificial intelligence offers easy access to swathes of data and the ability to troubleshoot before an issue arises.
Project management
Five lessons learnt from converting the SEC into the Louisa Jordan Covid-19 hospital. An article in Building Magazine 5 June 2020 by Graeme Watson of AECOM
21 June, 2020
This article is an extract from one describing how the Scottish Exhibition Centre was converted Into a hospital in 23 days. Five key lessons are noted 1. Collaboration, engagement, and a focus on first principles. 2. Design transparency and quality cont