Common Mistakes in Construction Project Management
Gaps that create confusion, rework, delays and avoidable pressure on construction teams — and the small habits that prevent each one.
Podcast-style audio episodes covering construction project management, contract strategy, planning, leadership and practical lessons from the field. Generated with NotebookLM from curated practitioner notes and project resources.
Gaps that create confusion, rework, delays and avoidable pressure on construction teams — and the small habits that prevent each one.
Two-host overview generated from the episode brief. Sarah & George.
12 episodes in the launch lineup
Gaps that create confusion, rework, delays and avoidable pressure on construction teams — and the small habits that prevent each one.
How contract structure and delivery method choices shape project risk, control and collaboration on real construction programmes.
EVM stripped back to four metrics that drive real decisions on construction sites — CPI, SPI, EAC and TCPI.
How to run a Last Planner pull session that the trade foremen take seriously, and how to use PPC as a learning signal.
What actually moves a crew, what wastes everyone's time, and what to do when relationships sour.
The final 60 days of a construction project. Snag closure, commissioning, statutory sign-offs, and the politics of handover.
When a delay claim is the right move, what records you need from day one, and how to keep the relationship intact.
Which AI use cases are paying back this year on construction projects, and which are still demos.
Owner, trigger, response — the three columns most registers get wrong, and the weekly cadence that keeps them alive.
Three EAC methods, when each is defensible, and how to brief a sponsor on a forecast you do not love.
The scope matrix, the look-ahead, the supervision ratios — what to lock in tender and what to track every Friday.
Performance domains, principles, tailoring. What translates cleanly to a construction job and what needs editing before it ships.
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