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Adept Management recently hosted a series of seminars covering topics including design progress reporting and Earned Value, recurring challenges in managing the design stages of projects, and likely developments associated with the increased use of Building Information Modelling. The events in Manchester, Birmingham and London were attended by 50 delegates from client, design consultancy, and contracting organisations. The slides from the event are available to download by clicking here.

Adept Management has launched Optimise, a structured approach to finding operational inefficiencies and to recommending and implementing improvements to built assets through working practice change. Find out more by clicking here.

Adept Management is providing planning and project control services to John Sisk on a retail and accommodation project at Wembley in London. This follows recent work on three other projects: a hotel and student accommodation project also at Wembley, a hotel project at Waterloo in London, and a Royal Mail sorting office in Strood, Kent.

We are providing planning and project control services to Skanska on the new circa €1.5Bn Karolinska hospital project in Stockholm. This follows other work for Skanska using ADePT in the development of Integrated Design Programmes on the £600M PFI Maghull and Belmarsh prison projects.

We are supporting Mitie Engineering Services to develop their programme of mechanical and electrical design and installation works on the new Material Science and Metallurgy department at Cambridge University. We have also been commissioned to undertake regular reviews and produce progress reports.

Adept Management is working with Atkins on the development of an Integrated Design Programme, using the ADePT methodology, on a major new airport project is Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

We have been working alongside Logica providing support to Horizon Nuclear Power as they implement Oracle Primavera to undertake planning, risk management and reporting within their business.

Adept Management is supporting BAE Systems as they develop dashboard reporting templates using the ADePT software toolset. This follows a previous project which picked up a Chairman's Award at an award ceremony on 29th September 2010 in Portsmouth. Adept Management Senior Consultant Mick Cahill, who led process modelling and engineering planning work on a major BAE Systems ship design project, was at the ceremony to receive the award.

A recent paper co-authored by Glenn Ballard, Romano Nickerson and Adept Management’s Jamie Hammond has received a fantastic response from lean practitioners from across the industry. The paper, which was published by the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) and is available for download here, was also presented at a recent Lean Design Forum event in St Louis, Missouri. This paper describes the application of Production Control Principles using real case study material from live projects within the construction sector. The paper demonstrates the power of lean during the design phases of projects.

An article on the success of Adept Management’s ADePT planning and management approach as implemented on the Camana Bay development in the Cayman Islands was recently published in Building Magazine. The article can be downloaded here.

Adept Management received an award from the CIOB for best paper at the third World of Construction Project Management conference on 20-22 October 2010 with a paper called ‘Achieving Reliable Delivery of Design Information for Procurement and Construction’ which can be downloaded here.

Adept Management Director John Steele presented at the 2010 PMI Global Congress held in Washington DC in October. John spoke to a large audience on the subject of Design and Engineering Management. The paper, entitled ‘Three steps forward, Two steps back: Managing information-driven design and engineering processes’, presented a methodology for developing integrated processes using interdisciplinary collaborative planning. A copy of the conference paper can be downloaded here.

In response to an increasing number of requests for information on the ADePT approach to process contol, we have released this brief Process Control Presentation. The ADePT method and toolset is being applied on a number of projects internationally and all have reported back on how the approach is helping by providing a single, standard approach to maintaining, monitoring and reporting the rate of production of the team during the design process. This presentation (which is in PDF format and can be run as a slide show using CTRL+L) offers an introduction to the approach and provides illustrations of performance data (and how this should be interpreted) from recent and current projects.