Remove Bidding Remove Change Orders Remove Information Remove Life Cycle
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Adopting a Program versus a Project Approach Improves Facilities Management and Construction Outcomes.

Job Order Contracting

Clearly, this process “reinvents the wheel” each time, and as a result rarely captures learnings, and in the end is typically characterized with adversarial short-term relationships driven by first-cost driven competitive bidding process. What is the most critical factor in facilities management and sector?

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Construction is NOT complex…. People are. Successful Construction Project Delivery Requirements

Job Order Contracting

Successful Construction Project Delivery, whether repair, renovation, maintenance, or new builds, can only be consistently achieved with a primary focus upon People… then Process, Information, and enabling Technology. Who can offer change ideas (informally and formally)? Who assesses the impact of the proposed changes?

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LEAN JOC – Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

LEAN JOC (Job Order Contracting) is a robust integrated project delivery process for repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and “minor” new construction. A LEAN JOC implementation integrates People, Process, Information, and collaborative Technology to consistently yield quality projects on-time and on-budget.

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Improve Construction Productivity Via Relationship Management

Job Order Contracting

Best Value Procurement – Put aside cost low bid/lowest technically acceptable procurement strategies. Consider total cost of the project/program, including change orders, potential for legal disputes, and especially prior performance on similar projects. Costs should be locally researched.

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Efficient Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Construction Basics

Job Order Contracting

It is the integration of people, process, information, and technologies that is provided for by adopting LEAN strategies. There are currently at least three proven LEAN methods relevant to this discussion: Life-cycle total cost-of-ownership modeling and management. Job Order Contracting. Integrated Projects Delivery.

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20+ Fresh Releases for Autodesk Construction Cloud

Autodesk Construction Cloud

This will help declutter information that is no longer used and make sure teams are using the most up to date version. By turning on new columns, users can now easily see the original SOV, change orders, and revised SOV to have a granular view of costs. PCO, RFQ, COR, OCO, SCO) in a column for each cost item.

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A Step Closer to BIM? NIBS and AIA Working toward Centralized Building Information Resource

Building Information Management

Also, the “let’s keep the Owner in the dark” or the “let’s not work together”, and the “bid low and make it up in change orders” , or “let’s accept the lowest bid and hope for the best” approaches to ruin. Building Information Management Framework - BIMF.