Digital Project Management - Using cutting-edge software to manage building projects

摘要

WHEN I WAS A project manager for Lehrer/McGovern/ Bovis in the late 1980s, I created my construction schedules with pencil and graph paper and kept a log of all submittals in a notebook. Back then, the only computerized functions for my projects were done by the project accountant, who used Lotus 1 -2-3 on a Pentium 2. Today, all that has changed. With the emphasis on productivity and competition, computerized project scheduling and process management isn't just a necessity, it's also a symbol of a company's cutting-edge competence. To understand how computerized project management is being used, I contacted two of the country's major construction companies, Gilbane and Turner. As a counterpoint, I asked a major architectural firm - HOK (Hellmuth, Obata, + Kassa-baum) - how it uses software to support project execution.