The regulatory aspect of project management for medical devices is a very obvious difference. I think another big difference between project management for medical devices vs building construction involves the tighter and stricter deadlines. For medical devices, meeting deadlines is critical because it can potentially lead to discontinuation of product being sold. If the product is life or death, it adds more strain of trying to meet these deadlines as opposed to building a school or sky scrapper which doesn’t have that same vital weight. Also, I can see project management for building construction more straight forward since, from my understanding, the blue print and execution for erecting a building hasn’t changed as much over the last couple decades as opposed to medical devices which constantly have to meet updated regulations and execution of new product development.