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Frank Walker, Past President of the PMI-DVC and senior member of the chapter was invited to speak at the May meeting of the PMI New York City Chapter. Frank is recognized as an expert in the management of large constructions projects and the use of Microsoft Project as a project management tool. His presentation was well received in New York and one again showcased the project management expertise in our own Delaware Valley Chapter. By sharing the knowledge of our DVC members with other chapters and groups we raise the recognition of PMI-DVC as a source of knowledge and experience in the project management community. Think about becoming active in your Chapter!

Jim Snyder

Speech at PMI NY City Chapter

http://www.pminyc.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=1970&Itemid=2&year=2011&month=05&day=18&uid=7d2c768cf87eb49d4f278fd5eca1b550

Max Wideman's web site

For a great web site on project management see http://maxwideman.com/.

Max led the team to write the first real PMBOK^® Guide and was PMI Chair when I went to my first PMI Global Congress in San Francisco. Please urge him to keep up the great work.

Lack of Project Management and Communications

A Cautionary Digital Tale of Virtual Design and Construction 05/23/2011 by Nadine M. Post in Pittsburgh A lawsuit over construction of a life-sciences building at a major university stands as the first known claim related to the use of building information modeling by an architect. Furthermore, the claim and its settlement serve as a cautionary tale to others using BIM, says the insurer. “The creators of BIM claim its use reduces risk, and indeed it can—like any other tool, if it is used right,” says Randy Lewis, vice president of loss prevention and client education at the Denver office of XL Insurance, which provides professional liability insurance to licensed design professionals. “If you don't use BIM correctly, you can get into trouble.” For the life-sciences building, the architect and its mechanical-electrical-plumbing engineer used BIM to fit the building's MEP systems into the ceiling plenum. But the design team did not tell the contractor that the extremely tight fit, coordinated in the BIM, depended on a very specific installation sequence. When the contractor was about 70% through assembly, it ran out of space in the plenum. “Everything fit in the model but not in reality,” says Lewis. The contractor sued the owner, the owner sued the architect, and XL brought in the MEP engineer. “It was a very costly claim to negotiate,” says Lewis. XL did not litigate the claim because it would be difficult for any jury to comprehend. Lewis declines to offer specifics on the project, other than to say the building is open. He also declines to name the players. As far as the settlement goes, he will only say there was a “pretty significant cost,” totaling millions of dollars, which was shared by the architect, the MEP engineer and the contractor. The problem was poor communication. “The design team never discussed the installation sequence with the contractor, and the contractor wasn't sophisticated enough” to understand the importance of assembling the components in a certain order, says Lewis. Insurers advise designers not to get involved in means, methods, safety and sequencing. But for this project, even though it was delivered under a traditional design-bid-build contract, it was not enough for the architect to say “I designed it, it fits, here you go contractor, figure it out,” says Lewis. In the BIM world, parties are encouraged to communicate with each other and make suggestions, says Lewis. That did not happen on this project, he adds. Read More

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