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Goodyear engineering outlines new CIP scoping, costing and tracking tools to reduce overruns
Summary
City engineering described changes to capital-improvement project scoping and cost-estimation processes — including year-round project intake, outside cost-estimating support and TeamDynamix project management — and proposed a quarterly CIP health report for council.
Steve Cintos, Goodyear’s city engineer, and Walt Kinsler, the engineering CIP manager, presented an update on the city’s strategic plan action item to improve scoping and costing for capital-improvement projects (CIP). Cintos said engineering took primary responsibility for the CIP in 2022 and the department has worked to strengthen scoping and cost estimates since that shift.
The changes: Kinsler said the city decoupled the CIP process from the annual budget in February 2023 to give project owners more time to develop scopes and consult stakeholders. In 2024 the city…
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