De pandemie n.a.v. COVID-19 heeft ook de bouwwereld helaas niet ongemoeid gelaten. Conflicten die voordien reeds sluimerden tussen de bouwactoren zullen door de pandemie en haar economische nasleep nog scherper worden gesteld. Daarnaast wordt u als bouwheer, aannemer, architect of studiebureau geconfronteerd met bijkomende problemen op de werf. Het is…
DetailsThe Global Engineering Congress (GEC) focused on five of the 17 global United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals set in 2015. These five goals are inextricably linked with the world’s coastal community and its environment where most of the global population lives. These five goals: Clean Water and Sanitation (Goal 6); Affordable and Clean Energy…
DetailsIt is with great pleasure that we hereby announce that the Belgian Federal Mediation Commission at its official meeting of 14 March 2019 decided to fully recognize our Partner Dr. Erik VAN WELLEN as an officially accredited Mediator with specialization in Civil and Commercial Matters. Maverick Enterprise will shortly update its web pages to incorporate…
DetailsThe first month of 2019 is already drawing to a close but what a year this is likely going to be for all those interested in the commercial side in general and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in particular! In the universe of ADR, mediation remains without a doubt one of the most robust methods available.…
DetailsPublished article in Dredging and Port Construction magazine January 2019 issue:
Following on from our previous publication on Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Total Effective Equipment Performance (TEEP) some people wanted to know some more about this useful number parameters and what would constitute some likely numbers to shoot for. Let us start off with an easy to interpret graphical interpretation of the parameter as a…
DetailsSpend enough time on projects -be it as part of an Employer/Client team, a Consultant team or a Contractor team- and you will get familiar with claim situations. Claim situations in themselves can be quite frustrating for all involved but one of the least understood subcategories that may even top that frustration is probably the…
DetailsAt times people get bogged down in measuring the operational hours per day or per week or per month or even over an entire project or year(s). Others prefer to look at the efficiency, how much are we doing how fast? Control charts are then sometimes constructed to follow these on constituents thereof up and…
DetailsA few weeks ago, I was asked how to best go about the task of Task Duration Estimation (TDE) in projects. There exists quite a body of literature on that subject and most of the authors have come up with some sort of categorisation scheme or other. It is thus certainly not the intent to…
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