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Webinar: Mining Projects during Supercycle: Maximizing Value from Digital Cost Estimating

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

Find out how your mining project can stay ahead in this highly competitive market. Watch the Cleopatra enterprise webinar here... 

Engineered cost models VS Traditional cost models

Engineered cost models can be an essential step in the right direction for cost calculation models. Not only do they consider the feasibility of the combinations of various properties of the material but also the design requirements for certain equipment. So should you consider using engineered cost models instead of the traditional cost models?

Find out in the @Cleopatra Enterprise blog

Projects and their stakeholders face complex issues that traditional approaches can't solve. Executives, along with project professionals, finance, and IT, need a futuristic approach to gain consistent, real-time visibility into performance, compliance, and spending. Each one has a uniquely different role to play, but the goal remains the same: success across their projects.

Does this sound like you?

Click here to meet Julie, Karl, Ingrid, and Ali, who work in different departments for an EPC firm.

Industrial maintenance always comes with challenges. Ensuring your maintenance team and the equipment it manages are safe and efficient should be your number one priority.

Achieving this is made simple with industrial maintenance software. IAMTech’s Maintenance Management software helps in the management of your routine maintenance with a proven industry workflow, developed in collaboration with industry.

Minimising safety and security risks is a must for any industrial organisation. iPlanMaintain, among other things, reduces the risk of incorrect equipment or materials being wrongly allocated during a contract.

Remove the risk with IAMTech’s software, saving costs & safeguarding whilst maximising value earned from an event.

Unlike other software systems, iPlanMaintain is a complete management solution for the entire project and asset lifecycle.

Read more about the benefits of using industrial maintenance software in our latest blog post.

This industry survey provides insight into how project professionals and project management organizations are accounting for sustainability. The report dives into some of the key sustainability issues and developments across the project management industry. This year’s 2022 results highlighted some interesting insights around which project sustainability initiatives are being implemented most often, and how project professionals as well as their organizations perceive the importance of sustainability in project management.  This report covers:

• How do different industries & regions compare to others in terms of project sustainability?
• What methods are organizations are using to measure project sustainability efforts?
• Where to begin measuring sustainability metrics of a project if you aren't yet?
• A breakdown of global sustainability initiatives at the project level as well as at the corporate level across regions, industries, and respondents experience levels.

Download the report...

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Paul E Harris

Director Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd

A big part of any project manager’s role is to ensure the creation and maintenance of a project plan for the purpose of project control. Therefore, a suitable scheduling method, one that is flexible enough to be efficiently used throughout the project life cycle needs to be chosen.

This article will explain the differences between the Linear scheduling and the CPM method of scheduling and provide guidance on what method is used in different project scenarios.  Read more...

Learn more about two innovative software tools that can help you improve your project communication and everyday workflows in a Primavera based project environment.  Watch the free webinar

How can Government simplify and standardise estimating practice across the Public Sector for better outcomes for all its stakeholders

About this event A Consultation PsACE has been established to share processes, leading practice, and learning across government departments and Arm Length Bodies (ALB’s) using an open culture to share ideas, embrace change, adopt learning and innovate new techniques.

Circa 40 organisations participate.

On Tuesday 21 June, PsACE are holding their 1st conference and invite the wider community to participate in the discussion and debate:

PsACE vision and strategy and how we will lead estimating improvement across government. There will be a series of facilitated discussions blended with some skills building activities supported by relevant professionals. Your input and views on the ambitious challenges we’ve set ourselves to improve the estimating capability, better business cases leading to better project outcomes.  Read more...

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Spider Project

Spider Project offers numerous unique functional features and is the only PM software that optimizes resource, cost, and material constrained schedules and budgets for projects and portfolios. 

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