Construction Law

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The UK’s poor procurement practices are highlighted yet again by the news that the £19bn Crossrail project can’t be completed with the money available to the project. Another chapter in the long history of analysing why the UK’s procurement practices are so poor has just been produced by the National Audit Office (see News).

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Procurement Estimating Schedule News 52

Job Order Contracting

JULY 1, 2019

Any real property owner can develop and deploy a robust Framework for Integrated Facilities Planning, Procurement, and LEAN Project Delivery. People, Process, Information, and Technology are central components to optimally planning, planning, funding, maintaining, and managing facilities and other forms of physical infrastructure.

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Procurement Plans Management CSI 100

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

1 Job Order Contracting (JOC) is suitable for a wide range of facilities and horizonal physical infrastructure construction projects, including repairs, renovations, maintenance, sustainment, and new construction. Note: New construction is best limited to “minor” new construction requiring minimal design.). #2

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Contract Procurement Renovating Budgeting 211

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Construction Cost Management is now possible with the adoption of a robust programmatic process that integrates associated planning, procurement, and project delivery activities and people, information, and enabling technologies. Planning, procurement, and project delivery are not integrated.

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Management Procurement Construction Change Orders 130

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 7, 2022

The public sector could easily save 30%-40% of its budgets in this area with the basic implementation of robust, integrate planning, procurement, and project delivery methods. Adopt and implement robust LEAN, integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes. Path to Improvement. Measure productivity.

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Management Construction Procurement Renovating 228

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 11, 2020

Integrated project delivery tools and support services are now available for the repair, alteration, modernization, rehabilitation, and minor new construction of infrastructure, buildings, structures, or other real property. via Four BT, LLC – www.4bt.us

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Renovating Procurement Budgeting Budget 152

Construction Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has called on Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt to include a range of policy measures in his Spring 2024 budget, including using some form of Private Finance Initiative type of funding.

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Finance Infrastructure Accounting News 52

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Construction cost knowledge management is a component of integrated LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. Traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methods have failed. It is required in order to consistently achieve best value repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build outcomes.

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Management Construction Procurement Defense 260

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 10, 2019

Owner Leadership and LEAN Construction Procurement and Project Delivery Save Time and Money. Neither BIM, nor mobile systems such as Field Data Collection, have delivered on the promise of improving the AECOO sector’s procurement and project delivery woes.

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Procurement Life Cycle Legal Mobility 100

Job Order Contracting

MAY 1, 2019

. ” You will also find terms such as “black belt”, “kaizen”, and “Last Planner” While some of this information can be useful to those learning about LEAN procurement and construction delivery, not one is a LEAN procurement and construction delivery method. But, that’s for another time.

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Procurement Construction Renovating Contract 100

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 9, 2019

Construction Cost Control Speed Procurement, Limit Waste, Mitigate Risk. Capital costs associated with repairing, renovating, and constructing buildings and other forms of physical infrastructure are out of control for many, if not most real property owners. Costs vary widely by location and remain hard to predict.

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Renovating Procurement Construction Risk 100

Job Order Contracting

MAY 13, 2019

LEAN Infrastructure Asset Management. Detailed, locally researched unit price line item item cost databases and LEAN construction procurement and project delivery methods are fundamental to best value LEAN asset management. Educating all real property owners and service providers in this regard is critical.

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Management Life Cycle Procurement Renovating 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 24, 2021

An integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery solution that drives consistent on-time, on-budget, quality outcomes at a fair price. Best value management of the total cost of ownership for facilities and other physical infrastructure is best accomplished with implementation of robust programmatic methods.

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Renovating Life Cycle Visualization Environment 182

Construction Law

MAY 2, 2023

To even the most casual observer of the UK’s public sector procurement performance it must be obvious that something, or more probably things, is seriously wrong. The UK’s record on infrastructure investment is lamentable. More than 80% of the planned increases have been reversed.

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Foundation Infrastructure Budgeting Budget 52

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 24, 2018

LEAN construction delivery methods are process-centric solutions proven to consistently deliver quality repair, renovation, and construction projects on-demand, on-time, and on-budget. “Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. ” – W.

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Life Cycle Construction Renovating Contract 100

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 20, 2023

A credible construction cost estimate is required prior to engaging in procurement. Typical construction project stake holders include: Owners (management, engineering, contracting/procurement, building users), Contractors, Subcontractors, and Designers/Architects. Primary data sources should be used whenever possible.

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Estimating CSI Life Cycle Construction 219

Building Information Management

JULY 17, 2015

Defining best value procurement and construction is a critical step toward improving overall productivity with respect to facility renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and new builds. Best value concepts are basic in nature; Hire smart people, and allow them to demonstrate their expertise.

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Procurement Contract Construction Renovating 40

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 25, 2018

Over 90% of all repair, renovation, and minor new construction projects can be accomplished on-time, on-budget, on-demand, and to the satisfaction of building owners, users, and construction contractors… with complete financial transparency and in full compliance. Improve Building User Satisfaction.

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Renovating Sustainability Life Cycle Construction 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 20, 2022

As Australian state and territory governments mobilise to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, so too is the infrastructure industry. . This approach is laid out and broken down in a landmark report on the infrastructure industry’s commitment to sustainability. Regenerate. Here, we break down each. . Rethink and redefine.

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Infrastructure Sustainability Autodesk Materials 98

Construction Law

MARCH 31, 2021

One thing that can be confidently said about the newly announced National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) is that it won’t be funding very much of the procurement of the UK’s national infrastructure.

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Banking Budgeting Budget Green 52

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 31, 2023

Many of the industry’s productivity problems can be traced back to bad data and poor processes, which hit the budget through delays and the need for rework. The solution is to revisit how projects are procured, delivered and governed, and adapt to a better way of working.

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Industrial Construction Products Procurement 98

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 7, 2017

A key benefit of JOC is early and ongoing collaboration and transparency information sharing between the real property owner technical and procurement teams and the awarded JOC construction contractor. Second, some public agencies are simply using JOC as a method to speed procurement by bypassing traditional procurement practices.

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Consulting Compensation Procurement Contract 100

Construction Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There have been new dawns for infrastructure investment aplenty promised over the years, some of which have delivered vital infrastructure that modern economies need, but all of which have fizzled out again before properly delivering on the promises. But the signs for private finance in any form are not good.

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Infrastructure Budgeting Budget Transportation 40

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 23, 2019

America’s Federal Buildings and Physical Infrastructure. I first started working with public facilities and physical infrastructure capital planning and management decades ago. The cost comes in the form of auto repairs, lost productivity, and other factors caused by poor physical infrastructure. Key FY 2017 Statistics.

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Leases Infrastructure Statistics Management 100

Construction Law

AUGUST 5, 2019

Another scathing report from a parliamentary select committee has further shredded the remnants of the UK’s reputation for infrastructure procurement. It should have been open in December 2018 and is now forecast to open in March 2021; the original budget of £14.8 billion has been well bust, by at least £2.6 Nick Barrett.

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Procurement Transportation Infrastructure Budgeting 40

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 22, 2018

All the tools , training , information, processes, and support are available to ANY procurement and facilities management team that wants to consistently deliver renovation, repair, and minor new construction project on-time, on-budget, and to everyone’s satisfaction. We hope you benefit from the following information.

Contract 100

Contract Guidelines Documentation Estimating 100

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 24, 2023

Significant improvement of evaluation and maintenance building infrastructure is required to reverse the legacy of environmental and financial waste. Planning, procurement, and project delivery teams and process remain disjointed and without requisite oversight or accountability.

Infrastructure 223

Infrastructure Risk Procurement Budgeting 223

Job Order Contracting

MAY 31, 2017

Based upon the type and location of the organization, the JOC Program Manager must assure that the JOC Program is in full compliance statues/regulations/laws pertaining to the acquisition and use of capital funds for a facility and/or physical infrastructure renovation, repair, maintenance, and/or minor new construction.

Contract 100

Contract Management Life Cycle Estimating 100

Viewpoint Construction Technology

MAY 7, 2019

But along the way, those material costs can start to add up, especially if the materials aren’t procured and managed properly. The cost of materials can rise and fall daily, whether during the bid progression, the procurement process or the building phase. Maximizing Materials Management.

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Materials Software Software Project Management 201

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 12, 2018

Multiple knowledge domains, technologies, information sources, as well as internal and external stakeholders are integrated to assure that physical infrastructure requirements are planned and executed in an organized, cost-efficient, and timely manner. Procurement. It shows which improvements are planned, as well as end of life.

Management 100

Management Organization Environment Plans 100

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

STOP using ACFs – The inherent flaws of Area Cost Factors There are multiple false assumptions associated with Military Construction Budgeting and Area Cost Factors. The use of area cost factors (ACFs) for capital planning and budgeting repair, renovation (sustainment) and new construction factors remains a flawed approach.

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Estimating Defense Procurement Budgeting 175

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

85%+of all projects are over budget (just 31% of all projects came within 10% of the budget in the past 3 years – KPMG) 52% of rework is caused by poor project data and miscommunication (2018 Industry Report – Construction Disconnected, FMI). 40-50% work is either rework or not “value-added work.” ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY.

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Project Management Capterra Organization Management 162

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 30, 2022

Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al., Projects completed at or under budgeted cost. cooperative procurement procedures.

Construction 223

Construction Project Management Engineering Management 223

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To put this in perspective, this equates to about half of the world’s annual infrastructural needs. Procurement. Standardising best practices across all sites, projects, staff, and the procurement and development of project management talent is another gaping opportunity for improvement. Transparency & Regulation.

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Products Industrial Procurement Project Management 98

Building Information Management

AUGUST 11, 2015

With state and local governments facing severe revenue shortfalls, all publicly-funded organizations, facilities and infrastructures have new demands put on them to find ways to get more done with less—less internal resources and less money. Budget control. Author: David Carrithers. Owner and contractor goals are aligned.

Contract 40

Contract Procurement Change Orders Budgeting 40

Building Information Management

AUGUST 11, 2015

With state and local governments facing severe revenue shortfalls, all publicly-funded organizations, facilities and infrastructures have new demands put on them to find ways to get more done with less—less internal resources and less money. Budget control. Author: David Carrithers. Owner and contractor goals are aligned.

Contract 40

Contract Procurement Change Orders Budgeting 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 25, 2016

Collaborative Construction Project Delivery & Skilled Teams provide the basis for measurably improving outcomes, specifically a higher percentage of project complete on-time, on-budget, and to the satisfaction of all participants and stakeholders. Best Value Procurement. Key Characteristics of LEAN Construction Delivery.

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Life Cycle Construction Procurement Education 40