The 12th Russia Section Workshop on Sept. 15 brought together project management professionals and experts in cost engineering. Traditionally, the workshop takes place next to a large PMSOFT project management conference, where large companies from Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Caspian Region gather to discuss practical cases and key global trends in implementing large capital projects. Workshop 2023 gathered more than 100 participants…
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I’m from Carlsbad, NM, where I was born and raised. After graduating high school, I got my real estate license, as well as a license for property and casualty insurance. I worked in that industry for 10 years, and although I enjoyed it, I decided to go to college to get a degree and expand into a new career path. I attended New Mexico State University, where I received my bachelor’s degree in business administration…
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I am from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and I began my studies in political science at the University of Calgary with plans of becoming a diplomat. At that time, there was a recession, and they weren’t hiring diplomats. So, before finishing my degree, I transferred to engineering and found that I enjoyed it! I am a civil engineer, and it turns out that project control is a significant part of being a civil engineer. Many tools used in project management, including scheduling, planning, and overseeing a site, also fall under civil engineering, so it is not a far jump from a career in civil engineering to project controls…
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Andrew Leavitt is an Ankura Consulting director based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has more than five years of experience in CPM scheduling, change order management, forensic cost analysis, and standard-of-care analysis across various fields and industries in construction and manufacturing. He uses this experience to resolve construction disputes and manage construction risks…
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I am from Monroe City, Missouri, and I went to school for Construction Management at University of Central Missouri. I now work at McCownGordon Construction in Kansas City. You may not know that Kansas City has the best BBQ in the country!
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On the evening of Thursday, May 18, 2023, members of the AACE International community gathered at the Omni Hotel in Downtown Montreal for a special dinner event organized by the Montreal Section. During the event, the section took the opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge its 52nd anniversary as a section, the first Canadian Section, established in 1961…
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AACE International sections from around the world are encouraged to submit write-ups and photos of their monthly section meetings and other activities. For the September 2023 Source, submissions were received from the Seattle Section…
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My name is Waheedullah Rahimi and I am originally from Laghman, Afghanistan, but raised in the capital city of Kabul where I completed my bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Mashal University in 2018. I also received an associate degree in construction management from CIDC institute in New Delhi, India, back in 2014…
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My dad was the catalyst in my project controls career. When I was in high school, I wanted a camera. My dad said I had to earn my own money for that, so that’s how I started. I spent a couple of my summer holidays scheduling with my dad on pharmaceutical projects that he was working on in Puerto Rico. I didn’t know how to start, so my dad gave me two huge books on scheduling software, and I started learning the ropes on my own…
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This recommended practice defines general practices and considerations for integrated cost and schedule risk analysis and estimating contingency using a combination or hybrid of estimate ranging and integrated cost and schedule expected value analysis with Monte Carlo simulation methods. R+EV is used as a shorthand designation for this quantitative risk analysis (QRA) combination…