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A Web-Based Change Control Management Toolkit for Lump-Sum Turnkey Contractors: Transformation to Third Generation
Project changes are almost inevitable at all stages of the projects’ lifecycles. Mismanaging these changes is one of the key contributing factors leading to project hardships, such as profit erosion, scope creep, and time slippages. Such adversity is amplified for contractors engaging in lump-sum turnkey “LSTK” projects. Contractors encounter a higher level of financial exposure in LSTK projects as most impacts resulting from project changes are allocated on their liability. Despite its importance, few contractors engaging in LSTK projects have effective project change management systems “CMS”. LSTK contractors are faced with numerous barriers whilst attempting to implement the CMS techniques such as the required extensive amount of efforts, time consumption, cost of applications, as well as improper circulation of data; thus, the paper provides customized recommendations for developing the working steps of the CMS for LSTK contractors. During implementation, other challenges emerge for LSTK contractors, namely the mobility of team members, redundant working steps, and non-utilization of the closed projects’ CMS data for the company’s continuous improvements. Therefore, a web-based project change control & management toolkit “WCCMT” has been designed and developed for LSTK contractors engaging in Engineering, Procurement, and Construction “EPC” projects. It has been adopted by an EPC contractor under which the toolkit was developed and tested. It aims to facilitate the workflow and data circulation which would shorten the CMS cycle time and improving the contractor’s system functionality. It also centralizes and analyzes the data of the registered projects for continuous improvement of the contractor’s performance.
A Web-Based Change Control Management Toolkit for Lump-Sum Turnkey Contractors: Transformation to Third Generation
Project changes are almost inevitable at all stages of the projects’ lifecycles. Mismanaging these changes is one of the key contributing factors leading to project hardships, such as profit erosion, scope creep, and time slippages. Such adversity is amplified for contractors engaging in lump-sum turnkey “LSTK” projects. Contractors encounter a higher level of financial exposure in LSTK projects as most impacts resulting from project changes are allocated on their liability. Despite its importance, few contractors engaging in LSTK projects have effective project change management systems “CMS”. LSTK contractors are faced with numerous barriers whilst attempting to implement the CMS techniques such as the required extensive amount of efforts, time consumption, cost of applications, as well as improper circulation of data; thus, the paper provides customized recommendations for developing the working steps of the CMS for LSTK contractors. During implementation, other challenges emerge for LSTK contractors, namely the mobility of team members, redundant working steps, and non-utilization of the closed projects’ CMS data for the company’s continuous improvements. Therefore, a web-based project change control & management toolkit “WCCMT” has been designed and developed for LSTK contractors engaging in Engineering, Procurement, and Construction “EPC” projects. It has been adopted by an EPC contractor under which the toolkit was developed and tested. It aims to facilitate the workflow and data circulation which would shorten the CMS cycle time and improving the contractor’s system functionality. It also centralizes and analyzes the data of the registered projects for continuous improvement of the contractor’s performance.
A Web-Based Change Control Management Toolkit for Lump-Sum Turnkey Contractors: Transformation to Third Generation
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Walbridge, Scott (editor) / Nik-Bakht, Mazdak (editor) / Ng, Kelvin Tsun Wai (editor) / Shome, Manas (editor) / Alam, M. Shahria (editor) / el Damatty, Ashraf (editor) / Lovegrove, Gordon (editor) / Ezeldin, Ahmed (author) / Omran, Ahmed (author)
Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference ; 2021
Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021 ; Chapter: 15 ; 171-184
2022-06-01
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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