Anamaria Popescu
Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group
United States
About
Dr. Popescu is a Managing Director of Berkeley Research Group (BRG) Construction Practice. She is a construction arbitrator with the AAA and a licensed Professional Engineer with more than 26 years of experience in project management, construction claims, delay analysis, productivity loss, damages, project controls, and contract management. Dr. Popescu’s project experience includes power generation, pipelines, petrochemical and process plants, oil and gas production platforms (on-shore and off-shore), mining, water treatment plants, airports, telecommunications, and commercial construction in Australia, Canada, United States, Mexico, South America, South Africa, and China. Her expertise as well as her doctoral thesis focus on forensic schedule analysis.
Dr. Popescu provided program/project management and project control services for projects ranging from $500,000 to $50 billion. As an Expert Witness, she has written numerous expert reports that led to successful settlements as well as testified in international and local arbitration hearings and dispute review board proceedings on delay, productivity loss and damages. She has also taught seminars and courses on scheduling, effective project controls, and dispute avoidance in the United States and internationally. She is the co-founder and chairman for the Society of Construction Law Section in North America.
To connect with Dr. Popescu, please check her LinkedIn profile.
Panel Speaker
Phase-Based Planning & Scheduling Best Practices
There are a variety of planning and scheduling services performed throughout the project lifecycle, and the key to the “design-to-budget” goal of most Owners is to implement the services that are appropriate and needed in each phase, from Pre-Project to Post-Construction. Some of these best practices include the organization of the work breakdown structure and the unifying cost structure, dealing with schedules at the different stages of maturity of the phases, BIM engagement and integration, dealing with potential delay drivers like long lead equipment, sequencing, and work package development, schedule constructability and optimization, time contingencies and management reserves, and change management.
The panelists will discuss one phase each of the Pre-Project, Design, Construction, and Post-Construction phases and address how planning & scheduling best practices apply to that phase.
Come enjoy this discussion with the experts on the panel and learn from their experience.