At the Infrastructure Owner's Forum of the Edmonton Construction Association yesterday, I was priveleged to provide a context presentation for their group discussions about "Current Challenges in Project Delivery (and Some Solutions)."
The presentation provided some helpful solutions for project Owners to address some current project issues in Canada such as:
-Designer / architecture / construction / and Owner organizaitons being too busy and short of people.
-Lower quality design deliverables which are excacerbating an ongoing decline in construction productivity and creating a dispute-rich environment.
-Stressed-out people who are over-worked and lacking time and energy to form healthy relationships within the project team and on the jobsite, leading to non-productive conflict, poor behaviours, and more stress.
-the historic lack of training and development problem is much worse now with people being promoted early and with companies operating at 110% capacity with little time for training.
-higher project costs due to rising salaries to attract and retain people, increased risk contingency pricing, dealing with unpaid disputes, increased margins in a heated market, and the design & productivity problems.
But hope is not lost! We also discussed some solutions to these issues which help Owner teams deliver more successful projects in challenging times.
By following our easy to implement suggestions, Owners will have more successful projects and all the people in the project will have a higher level of job satisfaction at work. Staff retention will go up, design quality and production will improve, costs will come down, and the engineering and construction industry will show its true magic!
Contact me today if you would like to learn more!
Many thanks to Matt Schellenberger and his co-workers at ECA for the opportunity to speak at this meeting, and to the Emcee Jesse Banford, P.Eng, GSC from The City of Edmonton, and to the event sponsor Suzanne Checkryn, P.Eng., MBA at Revay and Associates.
