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JAMES J. O'BRIEN
Pages 354-359

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... BORRONE J AMES JEROME O'BRIEN, an early adopter and ­proponent of the critical path method of construction management scheduling and former chair and CEO of O'Brien-Kreitzberg & ­Associates, died of natural causes December 31, 2020, in ­Yardley, ­Pennsylvania, at the age of 91. Jim was born to Sylvester Jerome and Emma Belle Filer O'Brien in Philadelphia on October 20, 1929.
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From page 356...
... CPM was used as the basis of a management information system to support the US Army Corps of Engineers in the con struction of the vertical assembly building (VAB) for the Saturn rocket program at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the mid-1960s.1 Its success led to NASA's choosing Meridian Engineering and their team to develop a similar system for all aspects of the Apollo space travel program.
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From page 357...
... Among other responsibili ties, the contract called for O'Brien-Kreitzberg to introduce and educate the Port Authority Engineering Department staff about the use of CPM, which it did with great effect. The PA staff became proponents of the scheduling approach and later adopted other strategies promoted by Jim O'Brien, including formalized project management and value engineering.
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From page 358...
... Gibson, who eventually became executive vice president of O'Brien-Kreitzberg. She had two children, Susan Mathers (William)
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