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Why MDC Systems ®
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MDC Systems ® determines and verifies facts to facilitate problem resolution during the life of a troubled project. We review and organize all available pertinent data to document technical issues, schedule p...
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Change Order Management
One of the most complex issues you will approach on a construction project is a change order request. These can become large setbacks in the project, especially when it requires the parties of the contract to renegotiate terms to achieve the desired changes...
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Seminars/Training
Through interactive project and construction management seminars, MDC Systems ® teaches a comprehensive methodology on avoiding or minimizing oversights that often prove costly to projects.Seminar topics include:
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Benchmarking
Key to front-end planning is benchmarking your project against similar projects in the marketplace. No two projects are identical, but most are intended to satisfy traditional business objectives, thus there are certain parameters which can be compared ...
Construction Claims
Evidence Management
Successful negotiations and dispute resolution are dependent on assembling facts to support and defend allegations. The proof or evidence required to win in construction disputes will be culled from the enormous collection...
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MDC Systems ® is proud to be your top choice for construction arbitration. In the construction world, disputes frequently occur regarding the building process, codes, or contract terms. These disputes cannot only slow down a project, but can also completely ...
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Articles
- Just-In-Time Supply Chains Could be in Trouble
- Protecting Profitability
- Complexity: The Fifth Dimension of Project Management
- The Different Techniques of ADR
- The Role of a Construction Claim Consultant
- The Benefits of CPM Scheduling
- Standard of Care Engineering: What You Should Know
- How Forensic Engineers Help with Building Diagnostics
- The Importance of Critical Path Method in Project Management
- Risk Management Tips – Utilize an Effective Design Review
Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Dispute Resolution Methodologies
- The CSI Effect: The Increasing Role of Forensic Evidence in Construction Litigation
- The Use of Technical Experts as Neutrals in ADR for Complex Construction Disputes
- Project Documentation: Win the Paper Battle
- Protecting Against Corruption In Construction and Renovation: Corporate Counsel’s Essential Role In Making Integrity Pay
- Litigation Strategies In Construction Disputes: Being Cost Effective and Winning
Contract Management
- The Importance of Critical Path Method in Project Management
- Construction Miracles CAN Happen
- More Than Just Counting Rainy Days: Documenting Weather Delays
- Home Office Overhead (HOOH)
- “No Damage for Delay” Clauses – An Update
- No Damage For Delay
- Change Orders: Maximizing Benefits for Owners
- Why is there a Labor Overrun?
- Common Documentation Problems
- Shipyard Contracts: New Construction vs. Ship Repair
CPM Scheduling & Sched Analysis
- Construction Miracles CAN Happen
- Is the CPM Critical Path REAL or IMAGINARY?
- TIA® – The Rosetta Stone for Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling
- Construction Critical Path Method (CPM) Conference
- Primavera Scheduling
- Risk Reduction with Effective Critical Path Method (CPM) Schedules
Design Management
- Standard of Care Engineering: What You Should Know
- Risk Management Tips – Utilize an Effective Design Review
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- Design–Build In Name Only
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
Drone Services
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
Green Buildings
- Mitch Swann Presents at ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 2016
- Swann, ASHRAE DL, Presents Design Build for Green Buildings, Jan. 2016
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
- Green Buildings: Measure and Verify Performance
- Philadelphia’s Green Economy Task Force Features MDC’s Mitch Swann
- MDC Systems® Engineer Wins Presidential Grant for Best Green Business Idea, Washington, DC
- Addressing Green Building Risk
- Beware of the Gray to be Green
- The Donning of the “Green,” Getting Accustomed to New “Customs”?
Indoor Air Quality
Mediation
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- Discovery – It’s Not All in the Documents
- The CSI Effect: The Increasing Role of Forensic Evidence in Construction Litigation
Owner Issues
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Fiber Optic Highway
- Understanding and Surviving Project Complexity
Professional Practice
- Risk Management Tips – Utilize an Effective Design Review
- Project Risk Management – The Real Cost of Value Engineering
- Is the CPM Critical Path REAL or IMAGINARY?
- Mitch Swann, PE, Named to Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code Review and Advisory Council
- The Internet of Things : Managing Risk & Reward
- Mitch Swann Presents at ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 2016
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- Design–Build In Name Only
- Swann, ASHRAE DL, Presents Design Build for Green Buildings, Jan. 2016
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
Project/Construction Management
- Complexity: The Fifth Dimension of Project Management
- Project Risk Management – The Real Cost of Value Engineering
- The Internet of Things : Managing Risk & Reward
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- The Top Ten Documents Your Expert Will Request and Why
- Construction Defect Inspector Protected Against Contractor Defamation Suit
- More Than Just Counting Rainy Days: Documenting Weather Delays
- What is “Substantial Completion” and How Do We Know When We Get There?
- What Standard? Under Whose Care?
Standard of Care
- Is the CPM Critical Path REAL or IMAGINARY?
- The Internet of Things : Managing Risk & Reward
- Mitch Swann Presents at ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 2016
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- Swann, ASHRAE DL, Presents Design Build for Green Buildings, Jan. 2016
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- More Than Just Counting Rainy Days: Documenting Weather Delays
- What Standard? Under Whose Care?
- The Dreaded Change Order
- The Standard of Care in a Design Build World
Sustainability
- The Internet of Things : Managing Risk & Reward
- Mitch Swann Presents at ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 2016
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
- Only as Strong as the Weakest Link
- Developing Sustainability Strategies – Writing Your Future History
- What’s That Smell?? Mold – The New ‘Asbestos’
- A Big Foot Treads Lightly
- A Change of Seasons
- Sustainability – Un-Definable Success in a Defined World
- ASHRAE Central Florida Chapter – Sustainability – Undefined Success in a Defined World
Technology
- The Internet of Things : Managing Risk & Reward
- Mitch Swann Presents at ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 2016
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- Swann, ASHRAE DL, Presents Design Build for Green Buildings, Jan. 2016
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Building Envelope Investigations
- Water Treatment: Not Just a Third World Issue
- Removing the Varnish – Project Survivability and Resiliency
- Hurricane Sandy – Another Storm, Same Recovery Challenges
- Building Information Modeling – Boon or Bane?
Events
- Swann Busy with ASHRAE Activities in early Summer ’18
- MDCSystems® Presents at ASHRAE Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA 2017
- MDC Systems® Presents at Nebraska Architectural Engineering Institute Conference, 2017
- MDC Systems® At International Arbitration Conference, Dubai, 2017
- MDC Systems® Attended ABA Construction Mid-Year Winter Meeting, 2017
- MDC Systems® Attends ABA-Forum on Construction Law Fall Conference, Oct. 6-7, Chicago.
- Mitch Swann Presents at ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 2016
- Swann, ASHRAE DL, Presents Design Build for Green Buildings, Jan. 2016
- MDC Systems® Attends ABA Forum on Construction Industry, January 2016
- MDC Systems® Attending ABA Forum on Construction Law, Annual Meeting, April 2016
Newsletter
- Just-In-Time Supply Chains Could be in Trouble
- Protecting Profitability
- Complexity: The Fifth Dimension of Project Management
- Construction Management – Owner Beware Contractor Beware
- Embracing Your Promotor Fidei
- Mitchell Swann Joins the “Board of Green Building United” and “Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses”
- Risk Management Tips – Utilize an Effective Design Review
- Construction Miracles CAN Happen
- Project Risk Management – The Real Cost of Value Engineering
- Is the CPM Critical Path REAL or IMAGINARY?
Newsletter Archives
- Archive: Spring 1996, MDCAdvisor® Expert Newsletter
- Archive: Spring 1995, MDCAdvisor® Expert Newsletter
- Archive: Spring 1994, MDCAdvisor® Expert Newsletter
- Archive: Spring 1991, MDCAdvisor® Expert Newsletter
Press Releases
- Mitch Swann, PE, Appointed Treasurer of Philadelphia Energy Authority Board
- Mitch Swann, PE, Named to Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code Review and Advisory Council
- Mitch Swann Presents at ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 2016
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- MDC Systems® Attends ABA Forum on Construction Industry, January 2016
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- MDC Systems® Attending ABA Forum on Construction Law, Annual Meeting, April 2016
- MDC Systems® Attends Forum on Construction Law Midwinter Meeting, 2016
- MDC System’s® Man in Pakistan
- Swann Presents at ASHRAE, Birmingham Chapter, 2015
Professionals
- Robert C. McCue, P.E., EUR ING, CEng MIEI, MCIArb.
- E. Mitchell Swann, P.E., FCIBSE, LEED AP
- Michelle Nenna Delehanty, P.E., PMP
- Donald R. Keer, P.E., Esq.
- Daniel J. Sporer
- G. Peter Vander Heide, AIA
- Stephen M. Rymal, P.E., Esq.
- Julian M. Toneatto, Ph.D., P.E., P.P.
- Martin C. Levin, CPA, CVA, MBA
- Michael A. Baker, P.E., M.S.E.M.
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Projects by Category
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- The Top Ten Documents Your Expert Will Request and Why
- NJ Turnpike Authority – Driscoll Bridge
- San Felipe Springs Water Treatment Plant, TX
- Turnpike Project (The Big Dig)
- Highway Interchange Project
- Scheduling Project
- Pakistani Gas Turbine Power Plant
Building Diagnostics
- MDC Systems® Taking Off with Commercial Drones
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Suburban School District Energy Project
Construction Claims
- The Top Ten Documents Your Expert Will Request and Why
- Turnpike Project (The Big Dig)
- Highway Interchange Project
- Pakistani Gas Turbine Power Plant
- Oman Combined Cycle Power Plant
- Middle-Eastern Medical Center
- Singapore Pharmaceutical Project
- Delaware Manufacturing Plant
- Indiana Manufacturing Plant Project
- Airbag Manufacturing Facility Project
CPM Scheduling
- San Felipe Springs Water Treatment Plant, TX
- Scheduling Project
- University Library Project
- U.S. Federal Office Building and Courthouse
- Prudential Plaza, High-Rise Office Building Claims Analysis
Owner Issues
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Fiber Optic Highway
- Understanding and Surviving Project Complexity
Project Management
- Convergence of Design & Construction: Old Wine in New Bottles
- San Felipe Springs Water Treatment Plant, TX
- Parking Garage Assessment
- Hotel Vila Olimpica (Olympic Hotel)
Time Impact Analysis®
Projects by Industry
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- NJ Turnpike Authority – Driscoll Bridge
- San Felipe Springs Water Treatment Plant, TX
- Turnpike Project (The Big Dig)
- Highway Interchange Project
- Scheduling Project
- Pakistani Gas Turbine Power Plant
- Oman Combined Cycle Power Plant
- Middle-Eastern Medical Center
- Singapore Pharmaceutical Project
Commercial
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Prudential Plaza, High-Rise Office Building Claims Analysis
- Hotel Vila Olimpica (Olympic Hotel)
Educational
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- FIT
- School District Project
- Suburban School District Energy Project
- University Library Project
- Millville Early Childhood Center
- The Farfield Company (Electrical Contractors) v. The Rancocas Valley High School District (Board of Education)
- Nassau County Community College
Government
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- NJ Turnpike Authority – Driscoll Bridge
- San Felipe Springs Water Treatment Plant, TX
- U.S. Federal Office Building and Courthouse
Industrial
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- San Felipe Springs Water Treatment Plant, TX
- Delaware Manufacturing Plant
- Indiana Manufacturing Plant Project
- Airbag Manufacturing Facility Project
Institutional
Pharmaceutical
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Middle-Eastern Medical Center
- Singapore Pharmaceutical Project
- Multipurpose Pharmaceutical Plant
Power
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Scheduling Project
- Pakistani Gas Turbine Power Plant
- Oman Combined Cycle Power Plant
- Combined Cycle Power Plant
Process
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Fiber Optic Highway
- Ras Tanura Refinery
Transportation
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- Turnpike Project (The Big Dig)
- Highway Interchange Project
Water Treatment
- MDC Systems® Offers Engineering Inspection Services Using Drones
- San Felipe Springs Water Treatment Plant, TX
- Submarine Pipeline
Seminars/Training
- Project Management & Project Advocacy®
- Alternative Dispute Resolution: “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”
- Navigating the Alphabet Soup of Sustainable Construction
- BIM Go Boom: Risk Management in the Robot Age
- Are We There Yet? What is Substantial Completion?
- Connecting Green Building Outcomes to Enterprise Sustainability Programs
- Jedi Mind Tricks for Integrated Building Design
- Blurred Lines-Commissioning Controls Design or is that Commissioning, Controls and Design?
- Sustainability Undefined Success in a Defined World
- Opportunity for Improved Cleanroom Energy Efficiency
