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A Global Owner Talks About Project Execution Completion
Interview with Joe Gionfriddo, Global Construction Process Owner of Proctor & Gamble
MDC Systems®’s Mitchell Swann met with Joe Gionfriddo at this year’s McGraw-Hill Global Construction Summit in Beijing, China in April 2006. Mr. Gionfriddo, the Global Construction manager – Corporate Engineering at P&G, was a part of a Panel Program entitled “What Do Global Owners Need?” which featured speakers form a number of global owners. We thought his comments and viewpoints were very insightful and would be of value to our Advisor readers. Below is a short interview we conducted with Joe Gionfriddo.
Construction’s Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins of a Construction Project that Regularly Lead to Claims
(And How to Avoid Them)
From a project’s inception, an owner will typically have a vision of how they imagine their project will end. A ribbon cutting on a bright sunny day, surrounded by contractors, architects, and engineers alike all happy with the project’s outcome, on time and under budget, with motivation to continue on to additional shining successes in the future. Typically, this vision begins to fade as reality sets in…
Risk Management – Recognizing and Prioritizing Project Risks
One of the biggest components in successfully managing your capital program is a strong risk management plan. A project risk assessment is usually performed during project kickoff with all stakeholders contributing to the list of risks because the earlier in the...
MDC Systems® receives 2013 SBIEC Pennsylvania Excellence Award
December 16th 2013 - MDC Systems® has been selected for the 2013 Pennsylvania Excellence Award amongst all its peers and competitors by the Small Business Institute for Excellence in Commerce (SBIEC). Each year the SBIEC conducts business surveys and industry...
Information Management in an Electronic Age
John P. Sieminski, Esquire Burns, White & Hickton, LLC Information Explosion The world is going digital and the business world is no exception. It is estimated that over 90% of new information is created on an electronic device in digital form. Of that electronic...
Only as Strong as the Weakest Link
E. Mitchell Swann, P.E., of MDCSystems® & James W. Haile Jr., C.P.M., of JWH & Associates Over the past 9 – 12 months or so many parts of the world have been rocked by unforeseen events – "black swans" – which have called into question some of the ideas or...