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Project Planning

“If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail” — Benjamin Franklin . Project planning is immensely underrated. Everyone has a story of how they could have planned better to avoid a disaster, even if they didn’t look back and realize it. Project planning ensures project success and timely delivery, a crucially important function in any technical organization. Striving toward a perfect plan will help increase the probability of customer satisfaction and their trust in the organization for future investments. It’s the most crucial step in the reduction of risk and project failures. After all, no one gets points for a brilliant idea if the execution ultimately fails. The following article covers the basics of project planning, its fundamentals, why it’s so important for organizations, some popular tools used for project planning, and basic steps. We’ll also look at some opportunities to learn about these tools in more depth. What is Project Planning? A project consists of five different...
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Construction Safety in Nigeria: What we can do better

   What is Construction Safety? Construction can be defined as the action of building something; typically, a large structure. Safety is defined as the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger , risk , or injury . Merging both definitions, we can define Construction safety as the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury when performing the action of building something .  Construction safety involves any safety procedures relating to the construction industry or construction sites. Construction safety aims to ensure that a construction site or the industry as a whole is not the cause of immediate danger to the public around a construction site, or the workers at a construction site, as well as making sure that the finished product of construction meets required safety standards. The benefits of health and safety implementation in construction include; fewer accidents, better productivity, better work morale, better...
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Digital Construction Trends

The construction industry has obviously transcended beyond the realms of stereotypes or convention. With the invention of Internet of Things (IoTs), Digital Twins, Building Information Modelling (BIM), 3D printing, cloud computing, reality modeling, AI and big data, construction trends have sky rocketed to a whole new dimension and it is just a glimpse into what the near future holds with respect to digital construction. Digital construction is the use and application of digital tools to improve delivering and operation of the built environment . In general terms will translate into making the delivery, operation, and renewal of our built environment safer, more efficient, and collaborative.  (read more) Here's a brief video presentation of some existing trends in digital construction. Digitalisation in Construction
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