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How Much Money Is Needed to Deliver a Capital Project Program?

The answer is somewhere between 5 to 18 percent of constructed project costs. And it is more complicated than simply the percentages. If...

Three Things You Need to Know About Capital Project Prioritization

Three of the essential things to know about capital project prioritization are: The selected approach should consistent with the maturity...

Seven Helpful Tips About Project Risk

These are seven helpful tips about project risk from the Day 2 presenters at the online 2022 Safran Project Risk Conference. From Samuel...

Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Capital Program Prioritization

The foundations of systems thinking and facilitation apply to capital programs because the analysis requires a group to establish the...

Do You Share the Same Concerns about the American Rescue Plan Act as Water Utility Leaders?

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is now in full swing as states start to divide the monies to their units of local government. Two...

Observed in Practice: 5 Reasons for Not Doing Written Business Cases

Organizations are constantly frustrated in the capital projects planning process and developing appropriate Operations and Maintenance...

Johnston County, JD Solomon Inc, and B&V Begin Regionalization Assessment

On Tuesday, January 18, 2022, the Johnston County Board of Commissioners approved the contract to evaluate long-term water & sewer...

Ask the Experts Replay: Building Better Business Cases

Get more of what you want by doing business cases. Better yet, you will not get out-positioned competing department managers who are...

Projects Beware: Environmental Regulations Not Aligned with New Federal Funding

The recently passed infrastructure bill provides billions of dollars for progressive infrastructure aimed at beneficial reuse, energy...

Success Or Failure Determined by Addressing Rare Events

Rare events produce the greatest risk to facility and infrastructure projects. Traditional risks, often called project risks, are...