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Job Order Contracting Lessons Learned Regarding Improving Construction Productivity

Job Order Contracting

Here are a few lessons learned with respect to improving construction productivity, and overall life-cycle management of the built environment. Thus, a road map to improving the woefully low productivity associated with the AECOO sector is there for everyone’s use. It is NOT solely a procurement method. Collaboration.

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Job Order Contracting Overview

Job Order Contracting

Day to day decision-making and workflows significantly vary from traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. DO – Consider JOC and an integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery environment within which early and ongoing communication and collaboration the norm.

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Persimmon targets subcontractors in cost-cutting drive

Construction Enquirer

Persimmon is looking to retender subcontractor packages more regularly as it looks to “share the cost pressures in this new challenging environment.” “Just as we absorbed many price increases from subcontractors in recent years, so we need to share the cost pressures in this new challenging environment.

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LEAN Pre-Construction Services Considerations

Job Order Contracting

Bidding/Negotiating/Procurement. Both integrate design, construction, procurement, and all internal and external team members from conceptualize to hands-off, and even beyond. Common data environment, CDE – common terms, definitions, data architectures. Project Delivery Method Selection. Construction Documents.

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6 Phases of the Construction Process

Chianelli Estimating

Materials purchases are made from vendors (Procurement). It should be noted that sometimes procurement and pre-construction are considered separate stages. It is not uncommon for procurement to take on added complexity, particularly for long-term products or those that use a variety of hard-to-find materials.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: ?Negotiating? JOC

Rory Woolsey

. “Negotiating” JOC. This week the blog topic is on “Negotiating” unit price line items taken from national estimating guides on competitively bid contracts that are publically funded and subject to audits. On some jobs the debate would wade into the deeper waters of productivity and crew make-up.

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

Furthermore, the overall productivity associated with the construction sector lags that of other sectors. The net result is an facilities and infrastructure management sector that is burdened with waste and negatively impacting the organizational mission associated with built structures, the economy, and the environment.