22 Aug 2025 Project Controls News

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Let’s first explore what makes construction software dashboards an effective project management tool.

Then, we’ll look at four ways to use dashboards to gain valuable project insights while protecting and even improving your return on investment.

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iPlanSTO: One Turnaround Platform. One Turnaround Plan.

• We don’t place limits on the number of users. Everyone—including your third-party contractors—can access the same system and work on your STO together, driving team efficiency and collaboration.
• Role-based authentication allows you to assign access rights to teams or locations.
• Built-in dashboards, including the S-Curve, provide Turnaround Teams with real-time information, enabling them to make timely and accurate decisions.

IAMTech Knowledge: IAMTech Managing Director Ross Coulman [8] reflects on the company’s three-year exploration of artificial intelligence. What began as small experiments in software engineering has grown into a company-wide culture of innovation. For more information visit Iamtech website [9].

• Minimizing facility downtime and production losses
• Cutting turnaround costs with generative scheduling
• Managing, mitigating, and recovering from project risks

Learn practical strategies and real use cases to improve the efficiency, resilience, and ROI of your STO project.

Watch the webinar here [10]...

The background: A few months ago nPlan invited planners to beta test an early version of ‘Schedule Studio’, a new tool which lets you create detailed schedules with Generative AI in minutes. 

So, what’s the update? Schedule Studio is now out of beta, meaning you can sign up and start generating schedules without having to sit on a waitlist!

Planning Planet members who sign up using this link [11] will get 100 credits to try Schedule Studio for 30 days (enough to generate several schedules)

How it works: you paste in a scope and/or upload project documents, validate the assumptions and WBS the AI makes for the project, wait a few minutes and–voila–a detailed schedule is generated, which you can then export to P6 for further refinement

nPlan says: it can reduce the time you spend building v1 of your schedule by >95%

Why it could be a big moment for the industry: schedules have traditionally been time-consuming, complex and expensive to build - that needs to change. Project leaders will finally be able to close the talent and skills gap that's been pinching scheduling capacity. 

Cost overruns, cash flow issues, and scope creep are some of the most common risks in construction projects and they often trace back to one core problem: a lack of visibility into when project costs will occur.

That’s why time-phased budgeting is gaining traction as a must-have strategy for project and cost managers.

Cleopatra Enterprise’s practical guide covers:

• What time-phased budgeting is and why it matters
• Step-by-step instructions to build a time-phased budget
• Common pitfalls to avoid and how to solve them
• Tools that make the process easier and more efficient

With time-phased budgets, teams gain clarity across cost, schedule, and scope, empowering them to plan proactively rather than reactively.

Take control of construction costs with this proven approach [13]...

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