Detailed line item construction cost estimating is a prerequisite to obtaining best value outcomes for facilities / built infrastructure repair, renovation maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects. While there is certainly value in parametric, building level, and/or square foot estimating for budgetary considerations, they are not appropriate for LEAN construction services procurement and project delivery. (see LEAN construction guide)
Best value, LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery requires the ability to create and adequately communicate a detailed scope of work to all participants and stakeholders on an early and ongoing basis, throughout the project life-cycle. A locally researched detailed line item construction cost estimating database plays a key role in this regards. Each task is described in plain English and organized using CSI Masterformat. Each line item is associated with a unit of measure and includes labor, material, equipment, and crew information. With quarterly labor updates and annual general updates, a locally researched detailed line item unit price book is basically a mandatory component in an LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery environment, and the foundation for best value outcomes for all participants and stakeholders.
LEAN Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery & Detailed, Locally Researched Line Item Construction Cost Data
- Lean construction planning, procurement, & project delivery is a Philosophy, Program, and a Way of Life…. not a one time project.
- View each project as an integration of People, Process, Information, and Technology, with a primary focus upon mutually beneficial, client-driven, best value outcomes.
- Transparently share information on an early and ongoing basis among all participants and stakeholders within a common data environment – goals, detailed requirements and costs, schedules.
- Leverage technology for document management (assure everyone is working on, and has immediate access to the right information and the current version), as well as managing Programs, Contracts, Bid/Proposal/Estimates, Projects, Work Orders, Reporting, Schedules, Approvals, Tasks/Issues, Buildings, Components, and BIM information.
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