Video - InEight Design - Introduction to InEight Design

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Welcome to InEight Design. This video details the background and development of the system, as well as some key functions and features. In traditional delivery methods, the owner plays the role of mediator having to manage multiple parties, communication and issues on projects. Over time, these methods have advanced to streamlined and improve the overall success of projects with the owner now turning to the collaboration of the designer and contractor.

Here at InEight, we realize that as these delivery methods evolved, it was critical that our solutions evolved as well. This led to the development of our next generation tool, InEight Design. It's an engineering management solution with project control capabilities to bridge the gap between the engineering and construction industries. It allows teams to gain real-time updates and visibility required to drive project certainty and mitigate risk.

There are two modules, Engineering and Quantity Forecasting. In the engineering module, an engineering team manages earned value progress on their design scope and budgets At the same time, in the quantity forecasting module, the construction team performs quantity management activities based on the latest known design information. Let's start by discussing engineering management for the engineering organization, looking to define and track progress on the design scope of work. The engineering module allows you to streamline the planning, resourcing, and progress of your project.

Budgeting cost items can be broken down into design scope, trackable tasks. As work is progressed, earned value is reflected on the scope item to drive the overall percent complete on a project. So how does this work in the tool? The project begins by entering in claiming schemes, a standardized set of steps to define and measure the completion of the scope of work.

Then, you allocate resources types to these steps to support resource planning and assigned milestones for subsequent progress tracking. Claiming schemes help remove the vagueness of defining a percent complete. Once claiming schemes are defined, they are associated to the design scope, producing the set of tasks needed to complete all scope of work defined for the project. The solution leverages integrated budget cost items to establish hours at the task, resource and scope item levels.

The integrated cost items are critical to ensuring that all budgeted scope is being tracked for the project. From there, the engineering team can track progress completion on the individual tasks. The earned value drives percent complete for the deliverable package and project level While engineering progress is being tracked. The construction team is also leveraging design engineering's management capabilities.

Let's look at how construction management capabilities consume changes from the design phase and relate those changes in quantity form to the project budget. The quantity forecasting module allows you to break down an InEight Controls budgeted cost item into quantity items for your project. These quantity items are aligned to design deliverables that can be in different stages of the design process. As design is progressed, the latest design information can be tracked to those design states allowing for a project to have an accurate current estimate quantity.

That accurate current estimate quantity is then used when performing budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, and procurement activities on the construction portion of the project. So what does this look like in the tool? To begin the project will start by doing a detailed takeoff of the construction quantity from the estimate. These takeoff quantities serve as the baseline for tracking quantity growth on the project.

Having this visibility drives greater project certainty and reduces risk throughout the project lifecycle. As the design evolves, the project team can track current estimate quantity across the project configured design stages. Having visibility to quantity changes during the design phase will help foresee material and labor impacts during the construction phase of the project. Once design is completed for a particular set of scope, you can continue tracking quantities throughout the construction phase of the project.

You can do this through the InEight Plan component integration. Throughout the lifecycle of the project, the data is transformed into two dashboards, providing project management with a near realtime analytics needed to make critical decisions. An engineering management dashboard provides insights into project status while our quantity forecasting dashboard allows the construction team to view quantity analytics. Well, that's a quick overview of the InEight Design.

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