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Dr Yasser Alkazzaz,
Founder & Project Management Consultant
E2CBridge
www.e2cbridge.com
Email yalkazzaz@e2cbridge.com
Mobile +1 817 253 4129 Office +1 817 742 1203
Manufacturing approach to
construction standardization
The Bill of Material (BOM) usage has greatly contributed
to increase the rate of standardization in manufacturing
including but not limited to aerospace & defense, heavy
equipment engineering and fabrication. The explicit
application of BOM in driving project planning & controls
is lacking in construction projects and orphan in between
owners and contractors. Thus contractors engineers
define from scratch custom BOM for every project with
completely undisciplined and unorganized reuse from
project to project. In addition the project BOM is highly
disconnected among disciplines with too many errorprone material take off (MTO) files, equipment lists and
different coding and formats. This prevents future reuse
in other projects and it does not allow effective planning
and controls. In addition, it increases contingency and
ad-hoc changes that lead to budget over runs and
schedule delays. The explicit and consistent usage of
project BOM can progressively lead to identify
standardized design, components and work packages for
which generic BOM and plan could be maintained and
re-used across a project portfolio (per project type at
the least). Our combined experience in manufacturing
and construction puts us at the forefront to transfer
relevant practices and to develop robust approach to
construction project portfolio standardization and
optimization.
Organization disconnected in
between direct and indirect
Contractors corporate organizations are geography or
market orientated with primary driver on business
development, marketing and finance and sometime in
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