As 2005 rapidly comes to a close and you look over your end-of-year budgets, you may be asking yourself, “What can I do to get the maximum bang for my buck next year?” This month’s issue of Construction Project Controls offers a few answers. For starters, make sure you include appropriate software training, say Larry True and John Jurewicz in separate articles about using your computer system. If you're working with both Primavera 5.0 and Primavera Contractor, Gordon Aronson can help you import documents from one program into the other.

If your schedule projections are not showing what you expect or you want to better manage multiple contractors working different work weeks, you won’t want to miss the article by Jodi Staub and Larry Conley, who analyze the pros and cons for multiple calendars.

By Larry True
Purchasing new software isn’t necessarily a done deal once the check clears the bank. Don’t forget to factor in training costs, warns Larry True, in this month’s project controls fundamentals article.

By John Jurewicz of ASPTIP.COM
Whether you hold Friday “cheerleading” meetings or half-day trainings, get your team excited about a transition to web-based communications.

By Gordon H. Aronson
Your project was created in P3ec but you are only licensed to use Primavera Contractor. What do you do? Gordon H. Aronson tells you how to import the project into Contractor.

By Jodi Staub and Larry Conley
Scheduling a project using more than one calendar system may be seem risky, but given the right tools and management, it can help the project (and project managers) stay on track.

Interesting products announced this month include Digital Project, which has a Primavera interface, a CPA audit module for a construction accounting program, and a blog for engineers and contractors.