Webcor Builders Coordinates Construction Schedules and Mitigates Potential Delays More Efficiently with Integrated Project Management
- by Sylvie MacKenzie, PMP
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With more than 40 years of commercial construction experience, Webcor
Builders is a leading builder of distinguished, high-profile projects,
including high-rise condominiums and hotels, laboratories, healthcare
centers, and public works projects. Webcor is also known for its
award-winning concrete, interior construction, historic restoration, and
seismic renovation work. The company has completed more than 50 million
square feet of projects to date.
Considering the variety and
complexity of the construction projects Webcor undertakes, an integrated
project management solution is critical to ensuring optimal efficiency
and completing client projects on time and on budget. The company
previously used a number of scheduling systems for its various building
projects. These packages provided different levels of schedule detail
and required schedulers, engineers, and other employees to learn
multiple systems. From an IT cost and complexity perspective, the
company had to manage multiple scheduling systems and pay for multiple
sets of licenses.
The company looked to standardize on an
enterprise project management system, and selected Oracle’s Primavera P6
Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. Webcor uses the solution’s
advanced capabilities to schedule complex projects, analyze delays,
model and propose multiple scenarios to demonstrate and mitigate delays
and cost overruns, and process that information efficiently to deliver
the scheduling precision that public and private projects require. In
fact, the solution was instrumental in helping the company’s expansion
into public sector projects during the recent economic downturn, and
with Primavera P6 in place, it can deliver the precise schedule
reporting required for large public projects.
With Primavera P6
in place, the company could deliver the precise scheduling and milestone
reporting capabilities required for large public projects.
The
solution is in managing the high-profile University of California –
Berkeley Memorial Stadium project. Webcor was hired as construction
manager and general contractor for the stadium renovation project, which
is a fast-paced project located near the seismically active Hayward
Fault Zone. Due to the University of California’s football schedule,
meeting the Universities deadline for the coming season placed Webcor in
a situation where risk awareness and early warnings of issues would be
paramount. Webcor and the extended project team needed a solution that
could instantly analyze alternate scenarios to mitigate potential
delays; Primavera would deliver those answers.The team would also need
to enable multiple stakeholders to use an internet-based platform to
access the schedule from various locations, and model complicated
sequencing requirements where swift decisions would be made to keep the
project on track.
The schedule is an integral part of Webcor’s
construction management process for the stadium project. Rather than
providing the client with the industry-standard monthly update, Webcor
updates the critical path method (CPM) schedule on a weekly basis. The
project team also reviews the schedule and updates weekly to confirm
that progress and forecasted performance are accurate.
Hired by
the University for their ability to deliver in high risk environments
The Webcor team was hit recently with a design supplement that could
have added up to 70 days to the project. Using Oracle Primavera P6 the
team sprung into action analyzing multiple “what if” scenarios to review
mitigation means and methods. Determined to make sure the Bears could
take the field in the coming season the project team nearly eliminated
the impact with their creative analysis in working the schedule. The
total time from the issuance of the final design supplement to an agreed
mitigation response was less than one week; leveraging the Oracle
Primavera solution Webcor was able to deliver superior customer value
With
the ability to efficiently manage projects and schedules, Webcor can
ensure it completes its projects on time and on budget, as well as
inform clients about what changes to plans will mean in terms of delays
and additional costs.
Read the complete customer case study at :
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/customers/customersearch/webcor-builders-1-primavera-ss-1639886.html
