Project Execution

We employ a four-pronged approach to project success that includes leveraging electronic and paper-based tools to develop, maintain, and achieve long-, medium-, and short-term schedule objectives with a focus on safety and productivity. 

1. Planning for Safety

Our success starts with a deep commitment to safety which begins at the earliest stages of a project. Safety is not a random result; it must be engineered into the project plan and each task. Planning for safety is hard, involved, and takes experience and commitment.

Part of this process includes empowering all Ardent field staff to not only stop work if they see a safety concern but, more importantly, suggest safety improvements at any stage.  

2. Long-term Planning with CPM Schedules

Ardent employs the critical path method (CPM) on all schedule-critical and large-scale projects. The schedule is developed by our project manager or superintendent, with input and guidance from the general contractor, customer, and Ardent off-site management. 

3. Medium-term Planning with Four-Week Look-Aheads

Our teams develop four-week look-ahead schedules that allows upcoming work to be examined at a level of detail generally not achievable in a standard integrated electronic schedule. 

These detailed plans are completed by field supervisors, helping ensure that they’ve considered the tools, materials, equipment, information, safety, and manpower resources that are required for timely completion. 

4. Short-term Planning with Daily Craft Meetings

Ardent advocates for daily, multi-discipline craft coordination meetings on all of our projects. These meetings provide the opportunity for contractors assigned to a project to discuss work plans and coordinate efforts so everyone can get their work done with as little interruption as possible.

Other Project Execution Strategies

Along with this core methodology, we employe a number of other tactics and technologies to help us ensure project success. These include: 

• Capital Project Planning: Our team of skilled project managers and engineers has extensive experience with capital project planning. Along with the methods outlined above, we emphasize managerial due-diligence and employ proprietary work-order development and progress tracking processes to help us achieve success.

  
  Our detailed tracking procedure captures and records the following:

  • Quantity of cable tray
  • Cable footage, including length, terminations, completion, and valve readiness 
  • Conductor terminations, including cables pulled, completion, and termination 
  • Process tubing length
  • Process detail completions 
  • Panel installations 
  • Device installations 
  • Labor hours 

• Document Control: We have a well-established document control program that leverages a sophisticated database-driven management tool. Developed with “Management of Change” in mind, the program defines responsibilities for team members and details procedures for incoming and outgoing documents. 
•  Objective Project Tracking: Our objective tracking system utilizes cutting-edge software featuring a database that breaks scope into objective, finite, identifiable, and traceable increments. This precise system offers us accurate and timely information that helps us identify potential problems, deploy resources effectively, and avoid schedule delays.  

To learn more about our project execution approach, contact us today.