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Project Design

Business Basis of Design

This Executive Insight focuses on achieving improved capital efficiency in large capital asset projects through the adoption of an expanded basis of design that considers all aspects of a capital asset’s life cycle. In many projects today, the basis of design (BOD) largely encompasses the engineering parameters required to meet the owner’s project requirements (OPR).

Know What You Are Trying to Accomplish: The Primacy of the Scope Baseline

This Executive Insight focuses on the scope baseline and suggests its primacy among the three baselines. An incomplete scope will, by definition, result in incomplete or inaccurate schedules and estimates.

Design Review

Design review ensures the effective transformation of the owner’s project requirements (OPR).

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