Early, intensive coordination among agencies is expected to save up to 6 months on project schedules.

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Real-time document updates and project schedules keep everyone up to date without the frustration of time wasted in meetings.

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Best practices, including conducting permitting and other environmental review processes concurrently instead of sequentially, are expected to shave several months off project schedules.

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Work and project schedules must be cleared.

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Team members had vastly conflicting schedules, very different ideas on how the project should be structured and the who-should-do-what issue was an on-going problem.

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For example, MMA Renewable Ventures and its investors enjoy a 30% tax credit, have the benefit of accelerated capital depreciation schedules, and sell solar energy credits generated by the project to NV Energy, which must obtain 20% of its power from renewable sources by 2015.

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Upon seeing projects falling behind, many managers want to put schedules back on track by simply adding more engineers to the project.

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A350 project manager Didier Evrard said that the preparation for a new automated drilling process took longer than expected, causing production schedules to be delayed by several weeks.

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