The Six-Pillar Playbook to Supercharge Your Project Controls Career:: How to Turn Your Job into an Exciting, High-Impact, High-Profit Career in ... High-Profit Legacy Career in Project Controls - Softcover

Carson, Christopher Willis

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798996338801

Verlag: Carson Playbook Press, 2026

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The Six-Pillar Playbook is a practical career system for project controls professionals who want to move beyond technical execution and drive real results.

Most professionals get better at their job—but struggle to turn that improvement into career growth. The difference is not knowledge; it’s application. The professionals who advance build systems, improve outcomes, and demonstrate measurable value.

This book provides a structured, repeatable approach to doing exactly that. It shows how to apply project controls disciplines—including construction scheduling, cost engineering, and claims avoidance—in a way that produces visible impact and accelerates professional growth.
At the core of the book is a simple system: Mentor → Build a Process → Improve Results → Capture Proof → Generate Opportunity

Using this approach, readers learn how to:

• Strengthen schedule and cost performance through effective review and validation
• Apply project controls skills in real, high-impact situations
• Use mentoring to create measurable results and build credibility
• Prevent problems through proactive claims avoidance
• Convert technical work into recognition, referrals, and career opportunities

The book is designed for schedulers, cost engineers, project controls professionals, and construction managers who want to increase their influence, visibility, and career trajectory. It focuses on practical action rather than theory, with tools and examples that can be applied immediately.

The guiding principle is simple: take one person, improve one process, and prove the result. Repeated consistently, this approach builds both expertise and reputation.

Rather than producing reports without impact or reacting to problems, readers learn to take control of outcomes, build trust within project teams, and position themselves as valuable contributors to project success.

The Six-Pillar Playbook is not just about doing the work—it is about turning that work into results, and turning those results into long-term career growth.

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Mr. Carson is Director of Program & Project Controls and Vice President for Arcadis. Chris leads the Program & Project Controls (PPC) Community of Practice, providing training in best practices. He attended the University of Virginia in Mechanical Engineering with Structural Engineering courses at Old Dominion University. Mr. Carson provides Arcadis leadership in schedule, risk, cost, forensic analysis standards, planning, execution, and benchmarking. He teaches an industry-leading course on Forensic Schedule Delay Analysis, successfully negotiated hundreds of disputes, and used that background to inform his project controls best practices to collaboratively influence on-time and -budget completions. He has specialized in recovery and helped mitigate hundreds of days of delay, avoiding delays and disputes.He has 50 years of experience in Program/Construction Management, specializing in Cost Engineering, Program/Project Controls disciplines; Planning & Scheduling, Cost Estimating & Management, Risk Management, Document Control/Contract Administration, and Forensic Analysis/Claims Avoidance/ Dispute Resolution. His experience includes light/heavy rail, road/bridge infrastructure, aviation, seaports, water/wastewater, utilities, environmental remediation, pharma, oil/gas, industrial, commercial, educational. Mr. Carson is active in a leadership position in the professional program & construction management and project controls industry associations including CMAA (Construction Management Association of America), AACE (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) International, RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors), and the GPC (International Guild of Project Controls). He has provided over 750 industry training and seminar sessions in construction management and cost engineering/project controls.As a recognized thought leader in Project Controls, Mr. Carson was recipient of the 2021 AACE International "O.T. Zimmerman Founder's Award" for "... the development of policies, practices, procedures, and projects directed to the advancement of the precepts of total cost management and AACE", 2011 AACE "Technical Excellence" award, 2009 PMI College of Scheduling award for "Significant Contributions to the Scheduling Industry", "Chairman's Award" from CMAA in 2006 for contributions to the CM industry. He was selected as an AACE Fellow in 2013 "in recognition of professional attainment and significant accomplishment in cost management or cost engineering." He was selected as a GPC Fellow of Project Controls in 2014, and a Fellow of RICS in 2015 for his achievements "as well as demonstrating significant career achievements and successes...".Industry Professional PublicationsAs a top ranked speaker, Mr. Carson's credentials include over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Mr. Carson is a CMAA Certified Construction Manager (CCM), a Chartered Surveyor by RICS (FRICS), a PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), an AACE International Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP), Decision and Risk Management Professional (DRMP), and Certified Estimating Professional (CEP).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Carson Playbook Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798996338801
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 126
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