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Why a Single-Vendor Technology Strategy Will Work Best for Your Construction Company

Viewpoint Construction Technology

It raises the question for those in charge of enterprise resource planning: should your organisation adopt a single IT vendor strategy or partner with multiple vendors? From our point of view, there are a number of important reasons why choosing a single-vendor model might be best in terms of your construction management solution.

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Federal Infrastructure Bill Paves the Way Toward More Transportation Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships

Constructlaw

Government recipients may use such funds to retain the services of P3 consultants, identify appropriate P3 projects, solicit projects, and negotiate projects, among other things. The P3 model is not the best model for every project. is seeing now — it is likely that the use of the P3 model will continue to expand.

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

Pro Builder

Those items proved valuable resources for conducting his new duties—so valuable that his previous employer sued for violation of confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and for illegal use of trade secrets. Businesses looking to negotiate this rocky terrain have a valuable tool at their command: restrictive covenants.

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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Educational and training programs must focus upon asset life-cycle management and modeling. Business aspects must shift from lowest-bidder and adversarial, inefficient design-bid-build delivery models to BEST VALUE, INTEGRATED COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY. Improved resource utilization / reduced waste. … www.4BT.US.

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Surfing the Metaversity: The future of online learning?

BD+C

Copyrights, use-rights and royalties will become part of contact negotiations because unlike buildings in the real world, the twins do not age, weather or require maintenance. Prototyped AR/VR learning spaces can make it easy for institutions to adopt the platform, but a limited range of proven models may keep them from innovation.

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

d) An indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (task order) contract which provides for the use of negotiated, definitive, bilateral orders (i.e., 4) Work that can be effectively and economically accomplished by in-house resources. through discussions and negotiations. d) Negotiations. (1) 5117.9004 Procedures.

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BIM IP

Building Information Management

For some reason BIM authors (architects, engineers, etc) think that because they create the initial BIM information they have the right to full control and to charge for the BIM model throughout the life of the building. The architect doesn’t model ductwork, they use the mechanical engineer’s model. THEFT OF IDEAS.

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