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12 May 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Eastern US)  What Happens When AI Runs the Project? A Vision for Project Controls

*13 May 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Eastern US) Delays & Claims Analysis: Best Practices to Avoid Disputes

*19 May 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern US) Developing and Optimizing a Project Historical Database

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What Happens When AI Runs the Project? A Vision for Project Controls

12 May 12:00 PM ET

    Presenter:

    Greg Lawton, CEO, Nodes & Links

     

Most large infrastructure projects still finish late and over budget. Not because of a lack of skill or effort, but because the system has grown too complex for any human team to fully manage alone. Only 6% of megaprojects hit both their cost and schedule targets. That is not a people problem. It is a systems problem.

In this session, Greg Lawton, CEO of Nodes & Links, presents a forward-looking vision for what project controls and the PMO will look like as AI moves from assistant to operator. Drawing on data from over 21,000 projects and half a million hours of schedule analysis, Greg walks through a five-stage roadmap. From where most PMOs sit today, to a future where intelligent systems continuously sense, analyse, and act across schedules, costs, and risks.

Attendees will leave with:

  • A clear framework for understanding where AI fits into existing project controls workflows, without the hype
  • A practical view of how the scheduler and project controls professional's role evolves, and why it is a step up, not a step out
  • Real results from live projects: schedule compressions measured in months, tighter forecast accuracy, and what "always-on assurance" looks like in practice

 

This is not a session about technology for its own sake. It is about what it will actually take to consistently deliver the infrastructure the world urgently needs, and the central role that every project professional in the room will play in getting there.

The webinar is free, but registration is required. This webinar is generously sponsored by Nodes & Links.

Delays & Claims Analysis: Best Practices to Avoid Disputes

13 May 12:00 PM ET

               Presenters:

               Michael Pink, CEO, SmartPM Technologies

               Michael Bennink, Managing Director at J.S. Held LLC

 

Construction delay claims are among the most contested issues facing projects today — yet many disputes stem from avoidable analytical failures and poor schedule data management. This webinar provides a practitioner-level walkthrough of the most widely used forensic delay analysis techniques, comparing their strengths and limitations in the context of real project conditions. Presenters will cover when and how to apply Contemporaneous Period / Windows Analysis, As-Planned vs. As-Built, and a hybrid Half-Step approach, with specific attention to how data quality drives method selection. Attendees will leave with practical tools to produce cleaner, more defensible analyses — and keep claims from becoming disputes. 

 

Primary Discussion Topics:

  •  Survey of the major forensic delay analysis techniques: what they are, how they work, and the conditions that make each appropriate or inappropriate
  • Pros and cons of each methodology in practice, including how schedule data quality, docuementation availability, and project type influence method selection
  • Dive deep into Contemporaneous Period / Windows Analysis: its strengths when good schedule data exists, and its limitations when it doesn’t
  • The hybrid Half-Step approach: combining Windows Analysis with As-Planned vs. As-Built to isolate true progress driven delay from schedule manipulation
  • Fixing bad data: identifying missing logic, duration inflation, activity changes, and over-compression — and using schedule modeling, Time Impact Analysis, and As-Planned vs. As-built techniques to restore analytical integrity

 

The webinar is free, but registration is required. This webinar is generously sponsored by SmartPM Technologies. Attendees will earn 0.1 CEUs.

Developing and Optimizing a Project Historical Database

19 May 11:00 AM ET

    Presenter:

    Raymond Hagedoorn, Senior Cost Consultant CCE (DACE/ICECA),      AVS

 

 

Project historical databases are a critical component of effective cost estimating, benchmarking, and capital decision-making. However, many organizations struggle to move beyond ad-hoc data collection toward structured, reliable systems that support Total Cost Management practices. This presentation will discuss the principles outlined in AACE Recommended Practice 114R-20, including database structure, data capture, normalization, and maturity development. Attendees will gain practical insight into how organizations can develop and optimize historical databases to improve estimate validation, benchmarking, and project performance analysis.

 


The webinar is free to members and nonmembers, but registration is required. This webinar is generously sponsored by Cleopatra Enterprise



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