Better Planning makes better projects
Paul will co-present with Simon Taylor on Day 2 of Putting down the roots for Good Governance [17th June]
Biography – Paul Kidston
Paul is the Head of Project Control for Taylor Woodrow, the Civil Engineering division of Vinci Construction, part of one of the largest construction and concessions groups in the world.
He has been involved in a wide range of complex projects under a variety of different contract situations, in a variety of sectors including high profile public buildings, office developments, railways and large civil construction projects. Clients have included Crossrail, Network Rail, LUL, Goldman Sachs, BAA and the Corporation of London.
After a career in a variety of production roles, working up from an engineering role into project Management, Paul introduced the relatively unknown technique of Earned Value Analysis into, first the Project he was working on and then into the business. At around this time he started attending the EVA in the UK events, and soon after started speaking regularly at these events!
Paul has presented on, and written many articles on matters relating to Project Controls. He has spoken at EVA in the UK events on half a dozen occasions. He was one of the authors of the CIOBs book, “Guide to Good Practice in the Management of Time in Complex Projects” and is the lead author of the APM’s first comprehensive guide to project planning “Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control”
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