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How to survive and overcome inflation and rising construction costs

Lets Build

Prioritise value over competition One mistake project owners and procurement teams often make is prioritising bidding price over value. Using this traditional procurement method pits trade partners and contractors against each other. This can cost you more in the long run, especially when inflation is high and the market is volatile.

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Construction Cost Estimating Software vs. Spreadsheets – State of the Nation 2012

Building Information Management

While accurate, timely, and transparent cost estimating is critical to the success of any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction project, most construction cost estimators (over 55%) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.

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LEAN Construction for Facilities Renovation, Repair, Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

Benefits of JOC: Reduced procurement costs and time. Few change orders. Value-based procurement. Enabling software. Independent owner estimates. Using JOC as a method to bypass traditional procurement versus a best value delivery system. Shorter overall project delivery times. Faster response times.

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5 Types of Subcontractor Software Transforming the Trades 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Today, we’re celebrating five game changing types of technology and software for subcontractors with a look at specific examples that get the job done faster. 1: Collaboration Software. Collaboration software helps to preempt that risk of disconnect. Using collaborative software means that: .

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Job Order Contract

Building Information Management

Leading Federal/County/State and Federal Government, Education, Transportation, Utilities, and Healthcare institutions leverage Job Order Contracting (JOC) to complete over 90% of their numerous renovation, repair, sustainability and minor new construction projects on-time and on-budget… and to the satisfaction of all participants!

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Job Order Contract

Building Information Management

Leading Federal/County/State and Federal Government, Education, Transportation, Utilities, and Healthcare institutions leverage Job Order Contracting (JOC) to complete over 90% of their numerous renovation, repair, sustainability and minor new construction projects on-time and on-budget… and to the satisfaction of all participants!

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Job Order Contracting – Integrated Project Delivery for Renovation, Repair, Sustainability, and Minor New Construction

Building Information Management

Job Order Contracting is a high performance delivery method that delivers superior quality, schedule, and cost results over other traditional design-bid-build. Quality is a combination of conformance to specifications combined with a relatively few number of related change orders, reworks, and service calls.