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Public Procurement of Construction Services

Job Order Contracting

Advancing the Impact of Education, Training, and Professional Experience on Integrated Project Delivery.” Public procurement of construction services could be improved through the adoption of currently available best management practices. References: AIA (2007). ‘The Construction Users Roundtable (CURT). Lean Construction Journal Lee, H.W.,

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

Education, key performance indicators, common terms and definitions, collaborative construction delivery methods, and current, objective, local market granular cost data as well as supporting technology can to be leveraged to enable significant cost savings via signifincant improvements in cost visibility, cost management, and productivity.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Organizations that provide leadership and commitment to collaborative environments are rare. 2004; Black et al., Partnering: An Innovative and Effective Project Organization Concept. The characteristics of strategic collaboration and efficient construction project delivery are discussed below. 2000; Grajek et al., Bayliss, R.,

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

The ability to successfully account for and manage change during a project lies in an organization’s leadership and level of maturity relative to its strategies, processes, goals, and resources. Mature organization don’t react to change, they address change according to their programmatic process. Why Projects Fail.

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Digital Dryshack #52: OmniClass for Job Cost

Cassell Construction Estimating

Omni-Class is a well-organized, multi-faceted methodology whose goal is, by its own definition to, “describe the Built Environment.” It’s a well-designed method of organizing the entire spectrum of facility types; all neatly finished and ready for us to use.

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LEED Reaches 3 Billion Certified Square Feet

Green Building Law Update

Then the organization released that 2.9 LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance launched in 2004 has more than 6,500 registered buildings and nearly 2,700 have been certified. But that number does not take into account projects with K-12 or Higher Education designated as the “space type” (e.g.,

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Indian Engineer Champions Bamboo Construction

Natural Building

We started educating farmers about the immense possibilities that bamboo offered, and explained how it is better compared to other crops due to its hardiness and ability to survive erratic weather changes,” he adds. In 2004 alone they managed to convince 120 farmers to begin growing bamboo, and today, this number has grown to 10,000 farmers.