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What a PMIS changes in capital project delivery.
Practitioner writing by Bassam Samman on cost, contracts, claims, governance and AI, and how each is digitalized in PMWEB. Drawn from four decades of capital project delivery and more than three hundred published articles.
Rebuilding Nations: PMWEB as the Reconstruction Control Tower
How governments, finance ministries, sovereign funds and development banks can run the reconstruction of a country after war or natural disaster from one PMWEB Control Tower: an asset-centric portfolio, funding followed from pledge to payment, governance built into every workflow, permits and grievances managed as risks, interfaces between investments, and the transparency that attracts co-investment.
- 01Reconstruction Is a Portfolio, Not a Project
- 02Start from the Asset: From Damage Assessment to an Asset-Centric Portfolio
- 03From Pledges to Projects: Funding, Budgets and Conditional Fund Release
- 04Governance by Design: Delegation of Authority, Procurement and Audit
- 05People First: Permits, Grievances and the Social Licence to Rebuild
- 06Sequencing the Rebuild: Managing Interfaces Between Investments
- 07Transparency That Attracts Capital: Real-Time Reporting for Funders and Investors
- 08No Data, No AI, and a Six-Month Path to a Working Control Tower Coming soon
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Rebuilding Nations: PMWEB as the Reconstruction Control Tower
How governments, finance ministries, sovereign funds and development banks can run the reconstruction of a country after war or natural disaster from one PMWEB Control Tower: an asset-centric portfolio, funding followed from pledge to payment, governance built into every workflow, permits and grievances managed as risks, interfaces between investments, and the transparency that attracts co-investment.
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PMWEB for Lenders: Construction Credit Risk
How banks can reinvent credit risk management in construction finance by reading the same live PMWEB record the borrower uses to deliver the project: four pillars of oversight, five gates for validating every drawdown, and three ways to give the lender a live view.
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AI for PMIS
Sixteen articles on what AI can and cannot do with project data: the three layers of AI on a PMIS, the governance questions to answer first, what arrives with PMWEB 2026, where partners such as Gryps add reasoning and capture, and how to start without a migration.
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PMWEB for RICS Contract Administration
Ten articles on how capital project owners and contract administrators turn the RICS guidance on contract administration into a digital practice in PMWEB 2026: commencement, records and notices, change control, valuations and certificates, extensions of time, the final account, ICMS 3 cost reporting, DoA compliance and reporting.
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Digitalizing the PMO Mandate
Why a PMIS is mandatory, not optional, for government, semi-government and PIF entities delivering capital projects under the Mashroat NPMO framework: from the PMO as a data mandate to the control tower and a 180-day plan.
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Rebuilding Beirut with PMWEB
Two articles written after the August 2020 Beirut port explosion, proposing PMWEB to document the damage to every neighbourhood, building, floor and space, and to manage the cost of rebuilding in three phases with the transparency, accountability and governance that funders require.
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PMWEB for PMC Firms: Digitalising the CMAA Standards of Practice
Fourteen articles on how GCC PMC firms can turn the CMAA Construction Management Standards of Practice into a system of record in PMWEB, function by function, from delivery methods to cost, time, quality, contract administration, risk, programme management and AI.
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The SPV Control Platform
Eight articles on why a PPP project company needs a PMIS like PMWEB: enforcing collaboration between SPV members, mapping the contract bundle into controls, managing the Project Agreement back to back with EPC and O&M contracts, and reaching COD.
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From Strategy to Site: BSC and OKRs in PMWEB
Three articles on how the PMO of a government entity or PIF developer reports Balanced Scorecard and OKR performance calculated from delivery data in PMWEB, rather than from a quarterly data call.
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PMWEB in Practice
Five in-depth articles on specific PMWEB processes for owners and PMOs: RFIs as structured data, contingency and management reserves, real-time line-item variance reporting, Activity Boards that keep project conversations on the record, and contingency managed as a portfolio buffer.
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The Approved Estimate
An owner's guide to protecting the investment. Twelve articles that follow the approved estimate from tender award to final account, and show how a PMIS keeps it intact.
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Decide Locally, Know Globally
How PMWEB decentralises decisions while centralising project information: fast, justified decisions within the DoA matrix at project, portfolio and enterprise level. Published in English and Arabic.
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PMIS for Project Owners
The recurring reasons capital projects fail, from unclear scope to weak governance, and how a single governed PMIS prevents them.
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Construction Contract Claims
How contemporaneous PMIS records change the economics of claims: documentation quality, forensic scheduling, quantum and the Engineer's determination.
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FIDIC Notifications
Administering FIDIC 2017 notices in a PMIS: turning contractual triggers into live, contemporaneous records that protect time and money.
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Data Centres
Digital delivery of data-centre programmes: the Day 0 to Day 2 lifecycle, phase gates, long-lead procurement, ERP integration and the KPIs owners should track.
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PMIS for Capital Investors
Why funds and capital investors need visibility of the projects they back, and how a PMIS gives them the control an SPV structure demands.
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Construction Disputes
How disputes really begin, and how disciplined PMIS records keep construction disagreements out of court.
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Lean Construction Management
Applying lean principles of flow, waste elimination and continuous improvement through a connected PMIS. A complete management guide.
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Books by Bassam Samman.
Bassam Samman's books on digitalizing capital project delivery with PMWEB, available on Amazon.
Let's Transform
Enabling Enterprise Project Management Offices (EPMOs) to digitally transform capital construction projects using the PMWEB PMIS. Written for EPMOs, it shows how today's technology supports the digital transformation of project portfolio management at every stage of the capital project lifecycle: how PMWEB digitalizes project management business processes, and how Power BI reports on PMWEB data.
Project Control System (PCS) 4.0
Written for owners, consultants, contractors and everyone involved in project delivery. It explains how PMWEB digitalizes the processes of each project control system module, and how Power BI aggregates and reports data from PMWEB, Primavera P6, Synchro and Autodesk Revit.
Also by Bassam Samman, available on Amazon: Digitalizing Construction Contract Management (with Prof. Sami Fereig) and Digitalization of Construction Contract Administration Under FIDIC Contracts.
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PMWEB–ERP Integration Technical Advisory
Comparison framework, touch-point reference, architecture, methodology and testing scope.
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Applying lean principles through a connected, single-source PMIS.
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How PMWEB is adopted in real estate, government, healthcare, infrastructure, data centres and more.
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