The Advanced Work Packaging Institute (AWPI), is a U.S. based non-profit research and educational organization, for the application of Advanced Work Packaging for the capital projects industry.

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    What Is An AWP Champion?

    What Is An AWP Champion?

    If you’re implementing Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), you need an AWP Champion. Here’s a guide. The process of adopting Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) requires a comprehensive, systemic change that will affect every person on your capital project team. The presence of an empowered, respected change agent is critical to your success. Here at Concord, we call this person the AWP Champion. The AWP Champion is a leader dedicated entirely to supporting the transition to Advanced Wo
    Concord Fundamentals: Construction Work Packages

    Concord Fundamentals: Construction Work Packages

    A comprehensive guide to the purpose, design, and execution of a construction work package. The best way to understand the purpose and value of a Construction Work Package is to compare it to the traditional way of managing construction, so let’s start there. In most capital construction firms today, the bidding process begins as soon as engineering teams have delivered their initial documentation for a project. At this point, the executable elements of the project are not ye
    A Foundational Component of AWP: The Engineering Work Package

    A Foundational Component of AWP: The Engineering Work Package

    The industry leaders implementing the AWP system are beginning to realize that Engineering Work Packages (EWPs) are one of the best ways to our modern capital project engineering teams. Unfortunately, many organizations are unsure of what EWPs really are. The linked article will go over, in detail, what makes EWPs different and a more effective for your capital projects. Read more here. #awp #advancedworkpackagingchallenges #interfacemanagement #EWP
    4 Things to Do to Create a Path of Construction

    4 Things to Do to Create a Path of Construction

    This article will go over the 4 most important steps to take in building up a Path of Construction (PoC). But if there is one thing you need to know, it's that timing is extremely important in developing a POC and like most things the earlier you start the better. Continue reading about this important part of the AWP system here. #projectexecutionplan #awp #leadership #pathofconstruction
    What is a work package?

    What is a work package?

    A construction work package (CWP) is a unit of the first level of a project’s scope breakdown. It defines a logical and manageable division
    Advanced Work Packaging: The Case for a Project Delivery System

    Advanced Work Packaging: The Case for a Project Delivery System

    At any time during and between phases, work packages provide supervisors with the information necessary to make the most effective decisions
    (Update) History of AWP and WFP Research

    (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 Packaging from Project Definition through Site Execution: Driving Successful Implementation of WorkFace Planning", by Olfa Hamdi, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2013 Link to the complete work using the following link: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/21384 WorkFace Planning (WFP) is “about getting the right things to the ri
    AWP Three Main Stages: An Overview

    AWP Three Main Stages: An Overview

    Advanced Work Packaging is defined based on three main phases
    Advanced Work Packaging: Thinking with the End in Mind

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

    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 knowledge and the execution theory. Early major work packaging research focused on project control, examining the coding relationship of work packages to time, cost, and people as represented by the work breakdown structure (WBS), organizational breakdown structure (OBS), and cost breakdown structure (CBS). The Project Management Institute (
    Why Work Packaging? The Productivity Challenge

    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 productivity . A considerable number of researchers focused on finding the reasons for the construction industry low productivity. Possible reasons ranged from slow adoption of new technologies and practices to short term nature of contractual agreements (Eastman, 2008). Productivity in the construction industry is influenced not only
    AWP Implementation Challenges

    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 based on involving the relevant project stakeholders at the relevant time. Today, while more and more resources are being produced to guide project management professionals into using Advanced Work Packaging, there is little known about the challenges experienced by those who tried and the lessons learned that could benefit many projects in v
    History of AWP and WFP Research

    History of AWP and WFP Research

    This article is an excerpt of the first published academic thesis on Advanced Work Packaging "Advanced Work Packaging from Project Definition through Site Execution: Driving Successful Implementation of WorkFace Planning", by Olfa Hamdi, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2013 Link to the complete work using the following link: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/21384 WorkFace Planning (WFP) is “about getting the right things to the right people at the rig
    What is Advanced Work Packaging (AWP)?

    What is Advanced Work Packaging (AWP)?

    What is Advanced Work Packaging (AWP)?
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