Project Controls Recipe

Are you getting ready for the holidays? Decorations, presents, preparations, holiday parties? Perhaps among your holiday traditions, you have a family event with a Cousin Eddie? The hard-headed one that, while you are speaking, doesn’t even consider what you’re saying, and is simply waiting to speak? Back to our professional lives, how many meetings do

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Take Inventory

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday, because we get to take our personal inventory. We’re encouraged to step back and take note of what’s important, the relationships that enhance our lives, and the fortunes we’ve been afforded. If we’re lucky and brave enough, we can show gratitude to those that have brought it into our

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Progress; not Perfection

A quote I love is “we seek progress, not perfection.” It guides my personal life, our consultants’ career goals, and our technical development. From that, I’ve learned to warn our clients, “the perfect schedule is the last update.” Since day one, our tag line has been “HITO can help” which means we want to improve

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EPC Scheduling

EPC Scheduling The term EPC refers to the various stages or life cycle of a project. E stands for Engineering; this is where the project is defined, parameters are established, and drawings are produced for Construction to build to. P stands for Procurement; this is where materials are specified, purchased, and manufactured. C stand for

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SiteWalker

SiteWalker

Give your team the complete schedule on any device. Update status, add notes, capture pictures in the field, then import them back into the Primavera P6 database. Engage, understand, and execute projects with the power of SiteWalker. This is the cornerstone of our Remote Update Service. Please see get.sitewalkerapp.com for more information!

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Excel schedule lookahead

Here’s a short video, very rough, showing how to navigate and utilize our excel schedule lookahead planner. We’ll add some audio and edit it later.  Activities are exported from P6.  The “Export Updater” is the user interface. Date basics: Dates can be changed by simply double clicking in the Gantt chart area. It creates an

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HITO History

HITO History

Starting in 2009, I worked on industrial job-sites as a full-time construction scheduler. My passion has always been to make a difference and empower the field to make the best decisions. I pride myself in getting the best out of the best. During schedule reviews, I quickly learned that Gantt charts were often a sedative

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Career in Scheduling

I’ve always been intrigued by data. When I was young, I knew I wanted to have some sort of career that involved numbers.  So naturally, I went to college to help me find exactly what that career would be.  I wanted to steer clear of accounting, thanks to a less than effective high school teacher,

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