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Skyscrapers 2009 - The World's Tallest Buildings

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al., Mandatory early and ongoing collaboration for each project. Shared boundaries.

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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

Benefits of an OpenJOC Job Order Contract implementation include an expedited procurement process, and consistent completion of quality projects on-demand, on-time, and on-budget per owners/contractor expectations. Best value procurement. Owner technical and procurement staff is supplemented. The Origins of IDIQ and JOC.

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Regulatory – Job Order Contacting Statutes and Guidelines

Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting Blog Legislation for Job Order Contracting March 20, 2009. General Assembly of Virginia Virginia Public Procurement Act. EDUCATION CODE TITLE 3. HIGHER EDUCATION CHAPTER 51 Sec. Attorney General of Texas. Opinion No. Texas Education Agency Guide. Associated General Contractors of Virginia Legislative Reports.

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Why You Care About the Revision to OMB Circular A-119?

Green Building Law Update

In light of changes that have taken place in the world of regulation, standards, and conformity assessment since the Circular was last revised in 1998, it is now being updated. The revised Circular A-119 proposes to “maintain a strong preference for using voluntary consensus standards in Federal regulation and procurement.”

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

Organizations that do not implement and continuously import upon a program-based approach, under which all projects a planned, procured, and executed, suffer from unclear objectives , shifting requirements , unrealistic schedule s, and reactive planning , Poor planning and poor change management impede individual project successes.

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U.S. Construction – Improving Efficiency & Competitiveness

Building Information Management

Segmented, linear, and non-integrated processes: planning, financing, design, engineering, procurement, construction, operations, and maintenance. Construction Industry 2009 National Resource Council. 40 percent of primary energy use in the United States, 40 percent of the U.S. NSTC, 1995).