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Mining Projects during Supercycle: Maximizing Value from Digital Cost Estimating

Join the live session to discover how to overcome the challenges of a supercycle. 

The mining industry is known for its volatility due to the cyclical nature of metal and mineral prices. With a possible new supercycle on its way, the industry will have to deal with unprecedented price increases and fierce competition. 

Yet opportunities remain for the mining companies to improve their project performances. You’ll discover how digitalization of cost estimation can improve the performance of your CAPEX mining project. 

During this webinar, we’ll show you how to set up accurate estimates within a small timeframe and limited scope, and the drivers of estimate accuracy, so your mining project will stay ahead in this highly competitive market.

In this webinar we’ll discuss:

• The commodity supercycle 
• Key challenges of CAPEX performance during a supercycle 
• The benefits of digitalization for Cost Estimators in the mining industry
• The AACE guidelines for cost estimating
• An inside look at Cleopatra Cost Estimating for mining projects 
• Q&A with the experts

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CESK Data Release Notes 2021!

The quality of your cost estimates depends heavily on your cost data. Having a complete and well-structured dataset makes your life as a cost estimator much easier. CESK data offers you a vast array of information, used by companies worldwide. This year’s CESK release came with numerous updates and additions. 

Check out the CESK Data Release Notes 2021 as it has some very important additions and expansions and extensions for many different areas and industries. It includes improvements in cost models for Process Equipment, Mining Equipment, Building, Piping, and more.

The aim of this paper is to explain how the P6 Schedule Options affect the calculation of the Critical Path of a P6 schedule and identify which options may be useful for contractors to increase the number of client delays they may be able to substantiate with their schedule, click on this link>>>.

Accelerate your understanding of scheduling software to advance your scheduling career and be able to prepare better schedules with Eastwood Harris books, online videos available through Udemy and training material on:

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The organisers have decided to be 100% virtual this year - and without charge. Therefore PP Members and Viewers may avail of our content, see At-A-Glance

And they have arranged to have much of the content "weaponized" to be widely acceptable for continuing education purposes, see MCECourses ($5/pdh goes to Philadelphia Chapter of PSPE/NSPE.) 

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Real-time visibility into project performance among other benefits!

Let’s talk about Earned Value Management (EVM), and how this method can help organizations deliver projects on time and on budget.

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a method that allows the project manager to monitor, measure and manage projects performance. Using standard metrics applied to scope, cost, and schedule, EVM provides tools and techniques adopted by many organizations.

One of the biggest challenges managers face when in implementing Earned Value Management is the use of diverse and not integrated systems for each phase from scheduling to cost estimating and cost management. 

Nowadays there are many solutions in the market that will solve a problem, however just few are able to integrate with other platforms. No integration between systems and poor access to the right information at the right time means a less effective Earned Value Management process.

Despite sounding complicated the EVM method can be an easy and effective process for your organization requiring mainly a solid platform for budgeting, forecasting and change management. 

Hexagon’s solution for Enterprise Project Performance, EcoSys, can help you create a centralized hub for EVM that gives you a full picture of project performance providing a complete overview on what has been done, where you are now and where you need to be. 

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The ScheduleReader software can provide the members of your broader project team with an interactive view access to project data from existing .XER and .XML schedules, as an alternative to communicating project information using static PDF files.

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