Complete pre-planning and scheduling are vital to a project’s success and profitability, but how do you ensure that it happens? MCAA’s Planning for Profitability: Your Guide to Successful Preconstruction Planning is here to help. The guide walks your team through 19 planning phases to ensure that nothing is overlooked. Using this guide, your team will:
- Achieve agreement on targeted profit.
- Create a well-thought-out, finalized, workable plan and schedule.
- Identify additional profit opportunities to be investigated and risks to be avoided.
The team will document construction and administrative activities, persons responsible for each activity, a time frame during which the activity will be performed, and deadline dates. This written plan then becomes an integral part of the project’s management, planning, and execution.
Related Resources
You may also be interested in these other resources related to preconstruction planning:
Successful Project Management Flowchart
This flowchart complements the information in the guide. It includes critical activities for each job along with the individuals typically involved in that activity.
PIPES (PROCESS INFORMATION PORTAL ENABLING SUCCESS)
Learn how the BP Group used MCAA’s Planning for Profitability: Your Guide to Successful Preconstruction Planning as the basis for PIPES in this Management Methods Bulletin. By developing high level process flows and drilling down into each core process, this E. Robert Kent Award for Management Innovation winner documented how work was performed and identified holes in staffing, processes and technology.
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