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The Importance of Systems Thinking and Integration in Project Delivery
Recently the global marketplace has been buffeted about by news of the recall of children’s toys by several major manufacturers and by the collapse of the subprime lending market including its investment derivatives and related impacts on credit and capital markets worldwide. These items might seem completely unrelated to each other, not your typical project management or construction topic. Try this; think about each scenario as a portrait of a system and consider the impact on a project if the system components are misaligned.
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Avoiding RISK of Intellectual Property (IP) Infringement
While MDCSystems® has served Lady Justice for many decades in expert witness and forensics engineering, technology, and construction, we are pleased to announce that MDCSystems® now offers intellectual property forensics and expert witness services. As with many legal...
Risk Management Is it Time to Finally Implement Fire Resistive Residential Construction in CA?
By Robert C. McCue, P.E.& Michael A. Pollock, P.E. Our shared recollections of California wildfires go back to the early 1950's. Yes, somewhat dating me. Nevertheless, I recently did a quick search for information on this recurring problem and was surprised to...
Risk Management – Restarting the Construction Project (COVID-19)
By Robert C. McCue, P.E., and Michelle N. Delehanty, P.E. Consulting Engineers The current COVID-19 shutdowns of construction projects across multiple industries all over the world are unprecedented. The plans to begin construction work again will be riddled with...
Risk Management – Is the Coronavirus the Latest Black Swan Event?
The Coronavirus puts new emphasis on the evolving complexity of risks that must be balanced in the design and construction industries. The most unpredictable facet of construction risk management is the effects of unstable just-in-time supply chains. We are aware...