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Efficient management of the numerous repair, renovation, and construction project facing real property owners requires changing how owner, architecture, engineer, and builder relationships are structured.
Sharing risks and rewards through integration and collaboration throughout the project life-cycle, from concept through completion and beyond delivers major gains in quality, productivity, and overall satisfaction.
Proven implementation methods and tools have existed for decades, and most recently have evolved to now provide low cost and consistent implementation.
Integrated project delivery, IPD, for major new construction, and Job Order Contracting, JOC, for repair, renovation,, and minor new construction are two of the most widely known and used collaborative, LEAN implementation methods.
That said, not all implementations or tools for IPD and JOC are the same. Owners should thoroughly evaluate their requirements and assure a match with products and services available.
Owner value can only be increased if financial and technical knowledge and risks are shared with the parties doing the work. This is a fundamental component of any LEAN process and deployments of IPD and JOC that maintain LEAN’s core requirements.
The innovative 4BT OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting Solution, introduced in 2017, is an example of a suite of tools and services that enables owners to cost-effectively and consistently deploy LEAN procurement and construction delivery and achieve resultant benefits.
Means and methods of team communications, owner leadership and requisite level of direct involvement, roles and responsibilities, workflows, documentation… are all provided within the 4BT OpenJOC Solution.
Improving project cost, schedule, and quality, through integration of people, systems, and business practices, leveraging enabling technology which embeds and reinforces work methods, and eliminating adversarial relationships via collaborative engagement of all project participants are all aspects of LEAN construction.
A common data environment, in terms of a shared set of terms, definitions, and locally researched detailed line item construction cost data are also key elements of any robust LEAN construction delivery approach.
