Being denied site access by AK-47s wielded by a local warlord’s guards doesn’t figure into most project “what-if”scenarios. Just as time to search for unexploded mines and clear thousands of abandoned munitions and bits of materiel doesn’t figure in most site prep schedules. In Iraq and Afghanistan, extreme unpredictables including ongoing insurgency must be added to run-of-the-mill bad weather, resource and equipment shortages (not a backhoe to be found in all Afghanistan), and difficult topography. “In an environment like this, communication becomes absolutely crucial,” says Rob Forrester, manager of project controls for Perini Management Services, Inc., a division of Perini Corporation that was contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build electricalinfrastructure in Iraq and bases for Afghanistan’s National Army.
    Forrester and his team needed modern telecommunications between the job sites and the project control teams in Perini’s headquarters in Framingham, Mass., as well as the ability for the on-site project staff to collaborate with their respective local control teams in the regional offices. To facilitate that, Perini created its own bicontinental wireless telecom network – using Iridium satellites, voice over Internet protocol, and e-mail – to link staff members in Framingham with on-site staffers in Afghanistan and with a control team in Kuwait that has personnel in Iraq. The network allows the teams to keep current on all project details, including the AK-47-enforced delay (which was resolved in a few days) via Primavera software......

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