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Raising the Bar on Construction Readiness: Why Frontline Supervisor Capability is the Next Assurance Frontier

by Sandra MacGillivray | Aug 12, 2025 | Construction Readiness, Other

For many of our customers, the Construction Readiness Assessment (CRA) is a proven assurance step—ensuring the people, processes, and plans are in place to start construction with confidence. This research challenges CRA users to go further: beyond “Are we ready to...
Aligning Projects with Purpose – Insights by Raul Fuentes

Aligning Projects with Purpose – Insights by Raul Fuentes

by Anant Desai | May 22, 2025 | Commissioning & Operational Readiness, Construction Readiness, Facilitation, Other, PDRI

With decades of experience in risk management and capital project execution, Raul Fuentes helps organizations strengthen their project assurance practices—not just by managing risk, but by aligning each initiative with the business’s broader purpose.  As part of...
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Benefits your Role in the Project

How the Construction Readiness Assessment Benefits your Role in the Project

by Eve Koch Nichol | Sep 12, 2023 | Construction Readiness

The Construction Readiness Assessment is a game changer in guiding project teams to ensuring a productive start to construction. The challenge is getting the project team to a full day workshop during such a critical time in the project. To promote participation in...

How the Construction Readiness Assessment Fits with Other Project Assurance Practices

by Sandra MacGillivray | May 19, 2022 | Construction Readiness

One of the most common questions we’re asked about the Construction Readiness Assessment is how it fits with other CII practices such as the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) and Advanced Work Packaging (AWP). It’s encouraging to see so many organizations...
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Differs from a Checklist

How the Construction Readiness Assessment Differs from a Checklist

by Sandra MacGillivray | Mar 4, 2021 | Construction Readiness

The Construction Readiness Assessment is often mistaken for an in-house construction readiness checklist. Several organizations implementing the Construction Readiness Assessment are making the transition as part of a larger initiative to standardize processes and...
Measuring Construction Readiness for Project Restarts after Covid-19

Measuring Construction Readiness for Project Restarts after Covid-19

by Sandra MacGillivray | Apr 28, 2020 | Construction Readiness

A second take on pre-construction planning Across the world, capital construction projects are in various states of completeness – some are proceeding at a much slower pace, while others are postponed indefinitely or even cancelled. This in itself is not unusual,...
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