Efficiency Note Archives - PTAG

Making Zero Accidents a Reality

November 12, 2020/in Efficiency Note/by Bikeram Singh

Throughout history, the construction industry has been identified as one of the most demanding and dangerous industries in the United States. Due to this both owners and contractors are investing more of their time and money to maintaining a good safety record.

Project Objective Setting

October 29, 2020/in Efficiency Note, Project Controls/by Elnaz Khaleghi

In nearly every project, internal teams and parties will work towards an objective to satisfy their stakeholders and the project owner. This objective may be loosely defined by the project owner, but to accomplish the goals will require alignment of the internal teams’ objectives.

Project Team Communications

October 15, 2020/in Efficiency Note, Project Controls/by Elnaz Khaleghi

Effective communication is essential and there are many ways to achieve this, but the hardest part is being able to measure the results.

Human Performance Tools – Phonetic Alphabet

October 1, 2020/in Efficiency Note/by Elnaz Khaleghi

This 1-Page summary provides a quick Reference Guide of the code words used for each letter and their pronunciation. The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order:

Project Change Management

September 17, 2020/in Efficiency Note, Project Controls/by Elnaz Khaleghi

Change happens in projects, it is unavoidable. Changes on projects are often perceived as a negative, Scope Creep, Overruns, delays, poor performance, however, not all changes are negative. Read more on our site.

Corrective Action

September 3, 2020/in Efficiency Note, Project Controls/by Elnaz Khaleghi

Corrective Action is an improvement or series of improvements to an Organization’s business processes and procedures to correct the root cause(s) of a non conformance and to prevent their recurrence.

Non-Conformance

August 20, 2020/in Efficiency Note, Project Controls/by Elnaz Khaleghi

Non-conformances are problems that have been found and need be addressed. They can be found anywhere – in a product, in service delivery, in work execution, in a process or even in the Quality Management System itself.

Advanced Work Packaging

August 6, 2020/in Efficiency Note, Project Controls/by Elnaz Khaleghi

Advanced Work Packaging is the process of defining project scope into manageable work packages early in the project lifecycle to ensure efficient execution of the project.

Risk Management and Risk Mitigation

July 23, 2020/in Efficiency Note/by Elnaz Khaleghi

This 1-Page summary gives you a downloadable quick Reference Guide of the fundamentals of project risk management and mitigation.

How To: Categorize, Analyze and Report Project Construction Delays

July 9, 2020/in Efficiency Note/by Elnaz Khaleghi

Construction Delays are unplanned events that happen during both work planning and execution that result in a cost and/or schedule variance to the original project plan. Delays can impact your project cost and extend your project delivery schedule.