Special circumstances require specific ways of management. Current COVID-19 has hit the world very hard and caused major shutdown of the industry worldwide besides the fact that the majority of population has been forced to remain at home in a lockdown state. Continue reading
Over two million people around the world have become infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and so far, over one hundred thousand of those have died. The COVID-19 disease has been so devastating because it is easily transmitted, and a carrier of the disease may initially show no symptoms, leading to exponential spread. Continue reading
The Central Artery/Tunnel Project, known as the Big Dig in Boston, selected probably the riskiest delivery method which helped cause the massive schedule and cost growth it experienced. The delivery method is called DBB (design bid build). This article is not about the Big Dig but it is about the risks involved in selecting a delivery method for your construction project. Continue reading
COVID-19 is real. It’s affecting the entire world and, being a virus with no ‘intelligence’, it has no clue that it is wreaking havoc on our sophisticated life form that also infects, or is it inhabits, this planet Earth. Some say that we are at war with the virus, and they use nationalistic appeals to the masses and describe the virus as virulent, insidious, unrelenting etc. But are we really all at war, or are warmonger advocates merely beating their war drums so that they may manage the outcome? Continue reading
The world is facing a lot of challenges in this COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these challenges emerge from the imposed social distancing and isolation. It has greatly affected what we love to do, where we want to be, and who we want to be with. Many companies are switching to remote work to protect their employees, and help minimize disruptions and keep operations running as close to normal as possible. Continue reading