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Faced with mounting confusion on hundreds of projects, Chicago's Public Building Commission built a portal to connect disparate systems and provide a unified view into projects. The framework's alert module encouraged rapid problem solving and increased attention to detail, resulting in improved execution and savings.
Created in 1956, the Public Building Commission (PBC) of Chicago is an independent government agency responsible for constructing, renovating and financing public facilities on behalf of the City of Chicago, CityColleges of Chicago, Chicago Board of Education, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Park District, and CookCounty. The PBC manages as many as 250 projects at any given time with an annual budget of about $2 billion.
The PBC functions as the general manager on its construction projects, hiring general contractors and trade contractors to facilitate and complete the building process. As the general manager, the PBC must track and store critical information related to its projects, such as scheduling and budgetary data. Historically, the collection and archival of this data required four disparate systems.
The first of these systems was an Access database for overall project management. The other systems include MIP for accounting, ProLog for project budgeting, and an Oracle application for procurement. In the past, these systems could not interface with one …
The first of these systems was an Access database for overall project management. The other systems include MIP for accounting, ProLog for project budgeting, and an Oracle application for procurement. In the past, these systems could not interface with one …
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