The Project controls Technical Network facilitates sharing and understanding of technical information and knowledge associated with Project controls for the benefit of IET members and the wider community. All of our events are open to the public and most are free of charge.
Contact us via our Community Manager, Joanne Longton
Introducing our new Chair, Louis Redding
Louis took over from Dave Perton on 1st October and you can read more about Louis in the attachment below:
What is a Project: A brief introduction to the world of project management
Read our Chair's latest blog
Attention Project Controls Experts!
Have you turned chaos into order by getting complex initiatives back on track?. Have you solved problems that left lesser professionals perplexed?
If you have repeatedly worked magic to rein in runaway projects, then the IET Project Controls Network eagerly invites you to volunteer as a speaker on one of our webinars and share your secrets with industry peers!. We seek presenters working in Project Controls to deliver compelling 1 hour webinars (including time for questions) , sharing your knowledge and experience. If you are a passionate, knowledgeable, and experienced professional who would like to share knowledge, connect with peers, and contribute to the professional growth of the project controls community, please express your interest by contacting our Community Manager, Joanne Longton
We've had some thoughts, outlined below, but equally we're happy to receive your thoughts too.
1. Benchmarking in Project Controls: This webinar might cover the principles and methodologies of benchmarking within project controls (for Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects), illustrating how benchmarking can be used to improve project estimation, monitoring, and controlling by comparing processes, practices, and metrics against industry standards or best practices. It might also explore case studies demonstrating successful and failed benchmarking initiatives.
2. Estimation Techniques for Project Success: This webinar could focus on estimation techniques that enhance the accuracy of project cost and time forecasts (for Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects). This webinar could cover various estimation methods, including parametric estimating, analogical estimating, and bottom-up estimating, and discuss how these techniques can be applied across different phases of the project lifecycle. It might include exploring case studies demonstrating successful and failed estimation initiatives.
3. The Role of Technology in Project Controls: This webinar perhaps could explore the latest technological advancements and their impact on project controls. This could include discussions on project management software, AI and machine learning applications, BIM (Building Information Modelling), and how these tools can enhance project planning, execution, and monitoring. Also, how these tools are affecting the way project control professionals work and what skills/knowledge are required for them to cope with the change.
4. Data Analytics and Big Data: This webinar could explore how project control professionals can leverage big data analytics to gain insights into project performance, identify trends, and make informed decisions. This might also include the use of data visualization tools to present complex data understandably. The webinar could also explore analytics techniques to unlock insights from project data to improve estimates, schedule management, and risk planning. and give some insights on the available analytics tools.
5. Learning from Experience: This webinar might cover lessons learned for project control professionals from projects where the adopted project control practices went well or not. This webinar might focus on presenting a case study for a project, exploring the project control practices that were used, and what worked and what didn't.
The Projects Controls Technical Network (TN) is a collaboration between the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE) to provide a Professional Knowledge Network that seeks to educate, inform, and improve the knowledge of Project Controls
Watch our latest webinar, given by our Chair, Dave Perton - How to Write a PID
Global adoption of the International Cost Management Standards (ICMS 3rd edition) grows
A world first for cost and carbon management, from concept to completion and beyond, the 3rd edition of the International Cost Management Standards (ICMS) benefits all built environment stakeholders who wish to reduce carbon cost-effectively for compliance, market, and societal reasons and drive innovation in low carbon designs and solutions. Since its launch in 2021, ICMS 3rd edition has empowered professionals to use a globally consistent framework for classifying, defining, recording, analysing, presenting, and comparing life cycle cost and carbon across assets, from buildings and bridges to ports and offshore structures. Various government bodies, international firms, and professional institutions have adopted and supported it globally.
Recently the Irish Government, as part of the forthcoming amendments to its suite of Public Works Contracts, announced the adoption of ICMS 3rd edition. The announcement was made jointly by Paschal Donohoe TD, Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, and Ossian Smyth T.D., Minister of State responsible for Public Procurement and eGovernment.
In a statement, Minister Smyth said, "The reporting structure provided by ICMS will enable decisions to be taken on the basis of the total cost of ownership including the environmental impacts of decisions with respect to material selection, foundation design and energy use and production. Combined with the data handling capacity of BIM and the availability of greater levels of information on materials and building components, contracting authorities and their project teams can review a project's environmental standing at all stages of its delivery lifecycle with ICMS. The information recorded can be used in the lifecycle of the asset to support decisions around sustainability and the circular economy."
Also, Building Transparency, the developer of the embodied carbon calculation tool called EC3 (Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator), recently announced the availability of ICMS 3rd edition in their tool. Users can now classify their estimates using Levels 2 and 3 of the ICMS 3rd edition and produce ICMS reports directly from EC3. Building Transparency is a nonprofit started with the initial support of Microsoft, MKA Foundation, Charles Pankow Foundation, Interface, Skanska USA, and The Carbon Leadership Forum. EC3 has over 35,000 users from over 30 countries with over 115,000 EPDs.
Simultaneously Autodesk announced the availability of ICMS in their globally used Autodesk Construction Cloud, a cloud-based construction management software. With the Autodesk Construction Cloud integration, quantity surveyors and cost managers can compare carbon impacts with costing data following ICMS 3rd edition.
Here are some useful links:
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/867c4-minister-donohoe-announces-package-of-contract-reforms-to-build-confidence-in-ndp-delivery/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/buildingtransparency_ec3s-icms-3-tracking-and-reporting-feature-activity-7087124551205076993-jG2W?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anilsawhney_make-sustainable-construction-material-choices-activity-7090376134000877570-JSms?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Can Quality 4.0 be an effective Driver of improved Programme and Project Management? Head over to read the latest blog posting from committee member, Louis Redding
Louis has also produced an overview on Leveraging digital twins for advanced project management
6th June - Careers in Project Controls - Zoom webinar - please see recording below:
