Supporting Your AWP Journey

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Alignment: Construction Driven Planning and Work Packaging

The business case for change is quite simply a 25% improvement in field productivity that translates to up to 10% of Total Installed Cos

Advanced Work Packaging: Past, Present, and Future

Ladies and Gentlemen, For decades, the capital projects industry has evolved mostly "offline". Collaborative research within parties...

(Update) History of AWP and WFP Research

-> Published in 2014 This article is an excerpt of the first published academic thesis on Advanced Work Packaging "Advanced Work...

AWP Three Main Stages: An Overview

Advanced Work Packaging is defined based on three main phases

How effective is your company's Constructability Review (CR) process?

Download the checklist here A strong constructability strategy is one of the key elements to delivering a successful construction...

Delivering A Successul Project

A Conversation with Petra Polster on Advanced Work Packaging

Background Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) and WorkFace Planning (WFP) are popular topics in Western Canada. The purpose of this...

Systems and practices: from a fragmented to an integrated approach

Goodman et al. (1980) highlighted and documented the need to a new approach for project planning and management. Over case studies...

Extending Design Information To Operations: What's Stopping Us?

Today, 3D modeling is a common practice, and virtual-reality is a standard tool to show buildings current status. Information modeling in...

Advanced Work Packaging: Thinking with the End in Mind

AWP is a disciplined approach aiming to improve project productivity and predictability by aligning planning and execution activities throug

Is the Last Planner System a Work Packaging Method?

Traditionally, contractors face a large amount of rework due to both poor field planning and poor coordination between engineering and...

Work packaging defined: from a project control mechanism to a project planning mechanism

The concept of breaking down projects into manageable work packages is one of the fundamental concepts of the Project Management body of...

Can WorkFace Planning Boost Your Field Performance?

First published at PMI online publication What if I invite you to have a walk through any random construction site and observe the...

Why Work Packaging? The Productivity Challenge

Productivity in the construction industry has been declining in the last four decades especially in comparison to non-farm industries...

AWP Implementation Challenges

AWP is meant to organize and drive the flow of information during the entire project lifecycle following a work packaging logic that is...