Factors and Categories

Factors and Categories

Construction Readiness Assessments (CRA) include 15 categories which are broken into individual factors.

Factors

Each factor is assessed by a short statement to which the team will answer as (Yes), (No), or not applicable (N/A) for the project. Each Readiness Factor is weighted based on importance and the weights are used to calculate the overall Construction Readiness score.

Categories

The factors are classified into 15 categories which provide a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the project before the start of construction. As such, the assessment of construction readiness is a valuable project team alignment practice.

Categories are auto numbered to reflect which categories are included by a user in a template. When excluding a category, the others will remain in their original order. However, their assigned number will be adjusted to reflect exclusions made by the user. Factors belonging to the categories will also be auto numbered to reflect the category order. This auto-numbering is consistent across the platform, meaning category numbers and ordering for the template will remain consistent in the assessment tab (including facilitation mode), the readiness chart, the missing factors tab, the action items tab, the best practices tab, and the summary tab (including the summary PDF report).

The Construction Readiness Categories are:
  1. Project Team
  2. Engineering
  3. Planning
  4. Health/Safety/Security
  5. Execution
  6. Tools & Equipment
  7. Quality Management
  8. Change Management
  9. Contract Management
  10. Human Resource Management
  11. Stakeholders Management
  12. Risk Assessment & Management
  13. Procurement & Material Management
  14. Commissioning
  15. Project Control
  16. Company Specific (customizable)


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