There is always going to be issues in the management of project information. From the seemingly endless and ever increasing volume of emails circulating about a project. To the tracking of changes to a design as it passes from the designer, to the architect, to the detailer, to the contractor and back again.
What are the best ways of keeping track of this information? How and when is the optimum time to archive? What format should this archiving take? Paper or electronic? Is it beneficial to archive all the project information at the end of the project, and take the cost hit if there is a need to return to the project and the need to sort through all the information? Or is it better to archive as the project develops? This will take up the resources of an already over utilised project manager.
How can project communications be managed effectively? Is it necessary to address how people approach and deal with email? Or is there a need to deal with the protocols which can be introduced which automatically manage emails? Or is there a need for a hybrid approach, tackling both the human and automatic issues?
This project aims to tackle all these issues by benchmarking the construction industry against other sectors. This exercise will identify the best options for Project Information Management which can then be adopted by the construction industry. The aim is to offer best practice guidance which can be used by organisations to ensure that important project items will not be lost forever.
The first phase of the project has now been completed. The second phase will begin shortly.
Mott MacDonald Group ltd, Arup, Atkins, Buro Happold Engineers, Cross London Rail Links, Edmund Nuttall, HR Wallingford, MWH, Northumbrian Water Ltd, RCS, Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, Davis Langdon, Shepherd Construction, Bovis Lend/Lease
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Mark Sharp
CIRIA Project Manager
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