Hexagon conducted a survey in partnership with PMI’s ProjectManagement.com to identify high-performing organizational behaviors that can help improve project outcomes. After just one week, the survey gleaned over 800 responses primarily from project professionals working in the Construction, Architecture, Engineering, or IT industry. While sifting through the responses, we measured the performance of the organizations […]
Parameter Configuration & Best Practices
November 12th, 2021
Parameters are one of the most powerful tools available in EcoSys. Parameters expand the possibilities of how users interact with the system. To obtain the desired level of interactivity, EcoSys designers must effectively harness the power and flexibility of EcoSys Parameters in the design of interactive EcoSys configurations. An EcoSys Parameter allows the end user […]
EcoSys v8.8 ‘New Record’ Options in Forms
November 11th, 2021
EcoSys continues to enhance and add new configuration options in Forms. Forms in EcoSys are another data tool that provides users an easy-to-read format which contains just the essential fields they need. Starting with EcoSys v8.8.01, Forms can be configured to enable the data entry of a Single new record or Multiple new records. This […]
Three Reasons Why You Need Project Controls in Your Next Project
November 10th, 2021
As we continue to mitigate the challenges of the current economic environment, the industries across the globe are starting to see the investment in infrastructure and capital projects rapidly growing. As mentioned in the Deloitte Capital Projects Insights Report, the annual global infrastructure investment is expected to rise from $2.5tr today to $3.8tr by 2040. That is a 51% growth in […]
Simplifying Cost, Performance and Schedule Synchronization
September 28th, 2021
Integrating project costs and schedules is a goal for anyone wanting to truly understand where the project should be, and needs to be, in terms of progress, hours consumed and money spent. Difficulties with aligning work and cost breakdown structures, differences between cost loaded schedules and project budgets, and disconnected scheduling and cost control teams […]
Is the Enigma of Schedule and Cost Management Finally About to be Solved?
September 24th, 2021
For many decades, schedule and cost structuration methods have been used extensively on major construction projects. These methods have improved over time with the evolution of tools and lessons learned from the field. Nevertheless, every time I try to make schedule and cost really work together, I encounter problems that are generally unsolvable, particularly how to judiciously correlate a work breakdown structure (WBS) supporting a schedule and a cost breakdown […]