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LEAN Construction for Facilities Renovation, Repair, Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

LEAN Construction for Facilities Renovation, Repair, Minor New Construction. LEAN Construction for Facilities Renovation, Repair, Minor New Construction can delivery 90%+ of construction projects on-time, on-budget, and to the satisfaction of all parties involved. Few change orders. Enabling software.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Emerson Smith, Assistant Project Manager at Donohoe Construction Company

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In the service department, I was able to finally manage a medical office renovation, which was phased, had night work, and had a lot of ins and outs. As construction evolves, how do you see your role changing? Managing submittals and RFIs are important, and maybe more critical is managing the finances and change orders.

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Commercial Construction Project Management Trends: How to Survive the Incredible Shrinking Timeline

HardHatChat

One of the biggest challenges for commercial construction firms today is the tighter project timelines that have become the norm at every phase of a project – from shorter deadlines for submitting initial bids and budgets, to quicker resolution on addendums and change orders, to compressed schedules for construction and delivery.

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The Critical Void in Facility Management – Renovation, Repair, Maintenance, and Sustainability

Building Information Management

and associated renovation, repair, maintenance, and sustainability. Collaborative LEAN construction delivery methods and supporting software have been available for decades. Fewer Change Orders and/or Legal Disputes. It’s beyond time for change. Shared Risk/Reward. A Common, Standardized Unit Price Book.

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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.

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LEAN Facility Renovation, Repair, & Construction

Building Information Management

Prevalent “low bid” design-bid-build construction procurement and delivery and it’s associated narrow consideration of “first costs”, is extremely wasteful and typically results in poor quality, project delays, excessive numbers of change orders, and overall higher costs. Fewer Change Orders.

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Integrated project delivery method

Job Order Contracting

An integrated project delivery method is arguably required in order to achieve desired quality, satisfaction, timing, and cost for over 90% of renovation, repair, or new construction projects executed. Within a Job Order Contract integrated project delivery method, the Common Data Environment is provided by the Unit Price Book, UPB.