Partner & Sponsor News August 2012

Dear Members, here is an update from us with some current and, we hope, pertinent news from the good people who support us all and help us fund the cost of the PP servers and its 24/7 service agreements; our Sponsors.  Regards... Planning Planet Team

Trade Partners

Need to market to our business sector?  PP wishes to further improve our vendor offerings; if you have a product or service which would benefit from global exposure on Planning Planet then why not contact us at the [email protected] email address. We offer a unique opportunity for quality vendors to advertise their products to a 51,000+ community!

Guild Sponsors

We are approaching our final few Guild sponsor opportunities. The founding 20 companies will always benefit from their association with the Guild as without them, life would be extremely difficult! As the weeks and months pass 'FOUNDER GPC SPONSOR' will be worth more and more...

Contact [email protected] for a place in history AND competitive advantage through excellence.

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Planning Planet is pleased to announce once more its’ participation and support of Project Challenge 2012.  

Planning Planet and The Guild of Project Controls will be based on stand 12 at the event.  We would like our traditional area to become a Project Controls zone and ask you for your support to this superb free event. www.projchallenge.com

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In view of the Guild status PP has decided to offer speakers to the organisers for The Learning and Development Zone’  and should you wish to speak please contact [email protected]

All relevant personnel will be available for meetings and discussions – if you wish to reserve a meeting please contact us again at [email protected].  In the meantime there will be regular updates and news for the event available on PP – once again we need your support - visit us on Stand 12!

Register for Project Challenge on www.projchallenge.com attendance is free.

PP is very proud to announce a new relationship with Barbecana Inc.

We are pleased that the company has chosen PP as one of its' main advertising mediums and knowing as you all do, our efforts to provide competitive advantage for our members we feel this is a product that delivers wholeheartedly in this ethic.

The founder of Barbecana is one if not the - most experienced developers of Risk products - over four generations - Barbecana is the fruit of this knowledge: you have the opportunity to try the product FOC for one month.

Tony Welsh (the companies CEO) was responsible for the algorithms in the original MS-DOS versions of Open Plan (time analysis and resource scheduling) and Opera (risk analysis), as well as being heavily involved in the design of the company’s earned value tool, Cobra.

Please take a look at Barbecana's profile and join our Barbecana group; we are proud to promote them.

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Sciforma Corporation, based in California, has been developing successive versions of Sciforma 4.0 since 1982 and distributes them globally. The Sciforma 4.0 software is entirely web-based, and can be used regardless of your geographical location, operating system, or browser, making it the ideal choice for organisations with single or mixed IT environments.

Sciforma 4.0's rich graphical interface, multi-lingual nature, robust project management functionality, high degree of configurability, flexible licensing, and simple automatic deployment ensure a smooth startup. Sciforma 4.0 is recognized as a positive player by Gartner’s MarketScope™ for project and portfolio management applications and is utilized by a quarter million users worldwide.

Please take a look at Sciforma's profile and join our Sciforma group; we are proud to promote them.

ACUMEN - You're invited to the 2nd Acumen Annual Summit on September 18 - 19, 2012 at the Hotel ZaZa in Houston, TX  Register with a colleague for just $99 each!

The Summit promises to be an exciting two-day event with informative sessions on schedule and risk best practices, training workshops and a networking event at the Houston Zoo.

Join hundreds of specialists, cost estimators, risk analysts and schedulers at the Acumen Annual Summit for the launch of Acumen Risk and updates to Acumen Fuse & Acumen 360.

Acumen has been ranked on Inc. magazine’s 31st list of the 500 fastest growing companies - read more... and announces launch of new Project Risk Analysis Software, Acumen Risk - read more...

Visit Asta Construction to see why thousands of construction professionals throughout the world choose Asta Powerproject. 

See short demos of some of the key functionality available and read customer case studies...

Are you on our Asta User-Map? 

Get yourself on our map by joining the group

Concurrent Engineering and Document Control

The latest in the series of infographics from McLaren Software showing the benefits of document control to support concurrent engineering enabling one or more projects to be run in parallel.

Concurrent engineering would be of interest to anyone involved in plant or facility maintenance or refurbishment projects to reduce the number of plant shutdown days.  Read more...

Wood Group Mustang video showing the benefits of cloud-based project collaboration.  Read more...

Earth movement is one of the biggest cost drivers in heavy civil projects such as highway construction. TILOS, a time-distance based planning tool, is an excellent choice to effectively plan and manage the movement of material in these types of projects.  

Standard Gantt chart based solutions are not designed to plan and control the movement of distance based quantities in these projects.

Based on geotechnical and survey data, TILOS monitors the different types and quantities of soil along the alignment and creates the mass balance curve with section based transport units. This enables the planner to interactively optimize material movement and reduce cost.

The resulting mass haulage plan shows: distance transport units, production rates, needed equipment, staff and fuel consumption.  Read more...

SpiderProject

The SpiderProject Team keeps developing new and unique functionality in SpiderProject software...

• Projects that belong to the Project Portfolio remember portfolio restrictions...
• Users can create first, second, third and other level schedules aggregating project data from the detailed project schedules...
• Or more information look at www.spiderproject.com and do it frequently

Spider Project software is updated weekly. Spider Project is most powerful project, program and portfolio management software widely used in Russia and Eastern Europe.  Read more...   [ Company Profile ]

About us:  - Crossrail is an ambitious project to deliver a new railway across London, it is among the most ambitious construction projects our country has seen and is the largest infrastructure project in Europe.  Building this new railway will involve constructing 21km of tunnels under London and building eight new stations at key locations.  Crossrail is a high profile project with high performing teams and offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a significant and lasting contribution to the life of London and the country as a whole.

During the peak of construction Crossrail will have over 14,000 people working on the project.  We offer a unique and once in a life time opportunity to work on the biggest and most exciting infrastructure project currently under development in Europe.

We are particularly keen to hear from experienced Planning Engineers with heavy civils background.  If would like to explore our opportunities further please contact the recruitment team directly on [email protected]  or apply through our careers section on www.crossrail.co.uk

We look forward to hearing from you.

UK Recruitment Watch...

Welcome to the August edition of the planning recruitment watch, brought to you by Project Resource Ltd. We bring you the latest trends in planning recruitment across the UK, helping you plot your next career move.

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Demand in the Midlands and Anglia has remained steady throughout the last few months with particular demand for senior planners to work on a contract basis on rail or tender projects.

On the permanent side we have received mixed requirements across all sectors from intermediate to senior level.

Due to the ongoing work on Crossrail there is a particular need for planners and project controllers of all levels with infrastructure experience to work in London on both a permanent and contract basis.  The trend in increasing demand for Nuclear EPC, oil & gas and subsea project planners in the North West continued in July and has spread into the North East and Scotland as well.

Planners with these skills are now highly sought after, particularly on a contract basis.

If you are a planning or project controls professional and are considering your next career move, please visit our website today.

We may have the perfect role for your experience and requirements.

We also offer a referral scheme that rewards you for your recommendations, click here for details.

Thank you...

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