Eskom Enterprises, Capital Expansion Department (CED)
Kavitha Prag, Executive Manager - Cost Engineering, Planning & Scheduling
Implementing Effective Project Controls in a Resource Constrained Environment
To overcome a severe nationwide energy shortage and prepare for steadily growing future demand, Eskom Enterprises, South Africa’s national power company, is building twenty (20) new power stations over the next twenty (20) years.  Technologies being applied in this effort range from traditional Coal-Fired units to Pump-Storage, Gas, and Nuclear.  Massive projects are also underway to expand the nation’s Transmission and Distribution Grids to facilitate flow from the stations as they are brought online.  
 
In any environment, this kind of effort would present significant project management and controls challenges.  But Eskom is also faced with overcoming a unique shortage of skilled project controls resources.  South Africa is a nation playing catch-up in building its skilled resource base. Unfortunately, the power needs of the country cannot wait.
 
This presentation will focus on how Eskom’s Capital Expansion Department (CED) was formed to meet and overcome these challenges.  It will discuss topics such as tool selection, the rollout plan developed for PRISM, the importance of custom training, and how processes and procedures have been developed and implemented to support tool rollouts.  Finally, the presentation will discuss our vision for the future of project controls at Eskom and how we plan to get there.

Intergraph Corporation
Callum Ford, Regional Director Business Development - Asia Pacific – Intergraph Corporation
PRISM Integrations with Intergraph SmartPlant® Enterprise
PRISM, ARES Corporation’s software suite for project management and project estimating for capital projects is distributed by Intergraph within the worldwide process, power, offshore, and shipbuilding industries. Intergraph and ARES, based on customer experiences, continue to work together to integrate and enhance PRISM Project Manager with Intergraph’s SmartPlant solutions, specifically with SmartPlant Materials. ARES offers project estimation within PRISM Project Estimator for capital cost budget development. The PRISM Project Manager Cost management package is designed to plan, budget, track, forecast, and report on the cost, progress, performance, and productivity of a project. Intergraph’s Materials Management solution SmartPlant Materials is designed to load BOM’s from design systems, create requisitions, purchase orders and do expediting/shipping and later receiving/warehousing at site. This session will discuss the different integration options and concentrate in detail on different project integrations performed with customers.

Parsons Corporation
Romi Puckett, Project Controls Manager
David M. Rosenheimer, PE, Programmer/Mechanical Engineer
The DCAA Connection
Despite the fact that the D in DCAA stands for “Defense,” Parsons’ experience has shown that the Defense Contract Audit Agency may also be invited to participate in EVMS reviews conducted by other government agencies (DOE in particular).  One of their soapbox issues has been the requirement to effectively reconcile the actual cost (AC) reported in the monthly CPR with what is reflected in the responsible company’s job cost accounting system.  Since software applications like ARES PRISM Project Manager do not normally address this issue, Parsons created a fully compatible, proprietary application that it has used to satisfy this DCAA requirement on two successful validation/certification efforts in as many years.  This presentation will present the history behind the development of the application (called “ExEVM”), as well as a demonstration of how it was recently used to compliment ARES PRISM in our most recent EVMS implementation effort where DCAA was a review team member.