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LEAN Construction Project Delivery and Facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Life-cycle Management

Job Order Contracting

Promoting awareness and education with respect to LEAN O&M best management practices would drive significantly improved outcomes. Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers.

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BEST VALUE & COMPLIANT Construction Planning, Procurement, And Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

BEST VALUE & COMPLIANT Construction Planning, Procurement, And Project Delivery can be deployed and managed today using a robust suite LEAN tools and services. A concentrated effort at improving owner education and leadership is need. minimal long term reliance upon “consultants” for operational support.

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Higher Education and Managing Repair and Renovations Efficiently

Job Order Contracting

While the problem is not new, what must change rapidly is the level of competence of higher education facility management professionals so that impending disaster is avoided. This includes facility management, finance, building users, AE firms, construction contractors, consultants, oversight groups, etc.

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group

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He has guided the sustainability process on over 30 million square feet of projects across many different building types and sizes, including K-12 schools, higher education facilities, mid-rise and high-rise residential, commercial interiors, retail interiors, and commercial office buildings.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges.

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OpenJOC – LEAN Construction Delivery / Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

Best value procurement. In some cases, consultants are hired to assist in managing a Job Order Contract. Regardless of the reason, however, it critical that owners assure that JOC consultants maintain an appropriate contractual relationship. ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

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This is the first time the federal government is prioritizing the use of American-made, lower-carbon construction materials in federal procurement and federally funded projects. billion is earmarked to procure low-embodied-carbon materials for construction and renovation projects. Of that amount, $2.15