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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Adversarial, change-order-oriented environment is common between owner, A/E, and contractor. Bid shopping can occur and actual overhead and profit amounts are unknown. Change orders may be reduced versus DBB due to A/E-contractor collaboration and contractual relationship. Construction Manager at Risk.

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Estimating and Risk Review Methods for Owners and Contractors - User Survey

Construction Dive

There are three general elements to an estimate: 1) the direct cost of the installed materials, including labor; 2) indirect, or support costs, such as scaffolding, crane usage, testing, inspection and punch lists; and 3) markups, such as overhead, profit and contingency, or risks.

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How to Modernize Construction Management

Viewpoint Construction Technology

There’s an industry transformation happening in construction, driven by modern technology, and these changes are significantly elevating construction management. Contractors are finding ways to modernize their businesses with software that improves productivity and mitigates risks, while increasing their bottom line.

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3 Decisions that Keep Construction Owners Up at Night 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

fraught with rising costs, material challenges, and labor struggles—the pressure to answer these questions correctly becomes even greater. of construction materials in the RSMeans database experienced a significant cost increase, with an average increase of 19%. And with the state of the economy—i.e.,

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Job Order Contracting Review Best Management Practices 2019

Job Order Contracting

Procurement costs, project delivery times, overall construction costs, changes orders, and legal disputes can all be mitigated via properly established and managed JOC Programs. The UPB should also contain crew information and be updated annually at a minimum, and quarterly if possible for labor and material fluctuations.

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Job Order Contracting 2021 and Beyond

Job Order Contracting

Labor for each construction task described in a line item is based upon local prevailing wages (or Davis-Bacon Wage Rates as determined by the contract/client), materials, and equipment rates, associated crews, and productivity. If a UPB is properly created it consists of “bare costs” only (no contractor overhead or profit).

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LEAN construction cost estimating

Job Order Contracting

Shared risk/reward. Material Cost – Description and cost of materials associated with specified task. Thus costs estimates should first be prepared WITHOUT including OVERHEAD and PROFIT. Not everyone is skilled in estimating labor, materials, and other variables that need to be part of the final cost estimate.