E-Enabling Construction Project Management
Presentations, lecture notes and visual aids delivered at the Federated
Press E-Enabling Construction Project Management Course held in Toronto on
September 10 & 11, 2001.
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E-enabled trends in engineering and construction
Evandro F. Braz
E-enabling construction: a strategic and operational analysis
Mark Blumkin
Application integration and e-procurement
David V. Kozicz
Communication and collaboration via web-enabled technologies
Kevin Wallace |
Opportunities, applications, challenges and
realities: a contractor's perspective
Bruce Fleming
Legal issues in e-construction
Howard M. Wise |
Course Leader
Evandro F. Braz
Pricewaterhouse
Coopers LLP |
Evandro F. Braz is a Partner in the Engineering &
Construction practice within the Management Consulting Services of
PricewaterhouseCoopers. His specialization is in the engineering and
construction industry and he has expertise in the areas of project
management, engineering and construction, cost and schedule controls,
financial planning, logistic management, training, benchmarking and the
business application of quantitative techniques. Evandro's more than 25
years in consulting includes both domestic and international assignments
and he has performed and directed many interdisciplinary engagements.
Recent relevant experience includes: creating industry-led e-markets,
both B2B and B2G exchanges, for the construction industry requiring
procurement, technology and operations workstreams; developing and
implementing a database for an Internet supplier of building materials
leading to an electronic catalog of construction products; and
benchmarking B2B vendors and construction e-business software packages
for the construction industry. He also conducts preemptive analyses of
construction plans, organization, schedules, risks, management systems
and procedures, budgets and cash flow, contract administration,
procurement, change orders and claims, engineering interfaces, cost
accumulation, labour productivity, reporting and performance monitoring
controls for a variety of projects. |
Co-Lecturers
Mark Blumkin
Pricewaterhouse
Coopers LLP
|
Mark Blumkin is a Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers'
Engineering and Construction Consulting Practice. He has over 18 years
of experience in the construction industry in transportation design,
project management and value engineering as well as over 12 years in
management consulting where he has focused on process improvement,
re-engineering, organizational re-design and system implementation for
owners of major construction programs. More recently Mark has
concentrated on e-business strategy and implementation for owners,
contractors and Internet companies in the design and construction
marketplace. He has lectured on various topics in the industry including
e-business in construction, financial controls and construction
auditing. |
Howard M. Wise
Goodmans LLP
|
Howard M. Wise is a Partner at Goodmans LLP
specializing in the areas of construction law and commercial litigation.
He regularly acts for owners, general contractors, subcontractors,
material suppliers and lenders in large construction disputes, including
construction lien claims, contract claims and negligence claims. Howard
works with clients in the construction industry who use the Internet or
online commerce in their business. He understands the business and legal
issues faced by clients in this rapidly changing field. He is a Past
Chair of the Construction Law Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association
of Ontario and is currently Vice-Chair of the Construction Law
Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association - National. |
Bruce Fleming
EllisDon Construction Ltd.
|
Bruce Fleming is to Vice-President and CIO at
EllisDon Construction Ltd., one of North America's largest construction
companies. He is currently heading up the EDgeBuilder initiative, an
online project management system providing interactive document and
workflow management for all project team members and support personnel.
This initiative also includes formalizing the company's knowledge
management practices and electronically integrating its systems,
departments and profit centres. A Professional Engineer with 18 years of
experience, he has worked on a wide variety of major national and
international construction projects. |
Kevin Wallace, P.Eng., M.B.A.
SNC-Lavalin Engineers & Constructors Inc.
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Kevin Wallace is the Director of Operations for the
Industrial Division of SNC-Lavalin Engineers & Constructors, a leading
engineering and construction company with offices in Canada and 30 other
countries. Over the past 10 years he has held senior project and
construction management roles for local and international heavy
industrial and consumer product projects. Globally, SLE&C procures $2-3
billion of services on an annual basis and has actively worked to
develop web-based procurement and management tools. |
David V. Kozicz
Aecon Group Inc. |
David Kozicz is the Director of e-commerce for Aecon
Group Inc., Canada's largest publicly traded construction company. He is
involved in both the selection and implementation of e-commerce tools to
support project delivery and execution. Aecon is currently rolling out a
company-wide standard collaboration tool with several marquee clients.
David is also involved in the selection and implementation of tools that
enable productivity improvements in back-office functions. He has
extensive experience in the construction industry where he has helped
clients to work more effectively with their supply-chain partners.
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Biographies are accurate at the time of recording. |