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LEAN Construction Project Delivery and Facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Life-cycle Management

Job Order Contracting

Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers. Cost Estimating, Procurement, & Construction Project Delivery and Management Systems. Strategic planning. Cost estimating.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

While there has been a fair amount written about Lean principles, actual application in the form of an integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methodology has been limited to 5% or less actual work. Influence of project type and procurement method on rework costs in building construction projects.

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LEAN for Facilities Operation and Maintenance

Job Order Contracting

Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers. Cost Estimating, Procurement, & Construction Project Delivery and Management Systems. Strategic planning. Cost estimating.

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Facilities Operations & Maintenance Management

Job Order Contracting

Appropriate decision-support tools and services (technology, data, and consulting/education/support) must be included to enable consideration of life-cycle costs and financial resource prioritization. Procurement/bidding. LEAN Cost Estimating, Procurement, & Construction Project Delivery and Management Systems.

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Why BIM is failing.

Building Information Management

BIM is the process of efficient life-cycle management supported by digital technology. BIM requires a more robust linkage (as is the case with JOC) between construction delivery and life-cycle management process and technology, to achieve a similar gain in momentum. 3D visualization is not BIM. operations) sector.

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Big Data, BIM, Cloud Computing, and Efficient Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

Building Information Management

In 2010 the amount of data collected since the dawn of humanity all the way up until 2003 was equivalent to the volume produced every two days in the new age of information. . Building Information Management, BIM is defined as the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology (NBIMS – NIBS).