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How Working with a Design-Build Construction Firm Can Boost the Bottom Line

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As we move further into 2015, Englewood Construction has been fortunate to entertain a lot of new business opportunities. Based on our backlog and client activity, we predict record growth in 2015. Here’s to more design-build construction work in 2015. As a former architect and member of the AIA, this couldn’t make me happier.

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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

– 2016, Arizona State University – Job Order Contracting Performance Survey-2015. This obstacle can only be overcome by changing current formal education and professional training programs. How many task orders were completed on-time, on-budget? What percentage of task orders required change orders?

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#117:  Building Information Modeling

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Depending on how the parties agree on the protocols for and the extent of permissible reliance on shared BIM in constructing a project, BIM models can run the gamut from serving as a check on accuracy of traditional 2D plans to replacing those plans as the official project drawings, or anything in between. 2015), is worth a read.

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Job Order Contracting – 2015

Building Information Management

Reduced legal fees, and virtual elimination of change orders. Elimination of change orders. Facility owners do not have to provide a complete design, but rather rely on the JOC contractor to produce any essential drawings for the design. Integrated Order Contracting , pg.

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

Research has readily demonstrated the correlation between the maturity level of an organization and project failure, i.e. excessive time spent upon change orders/rework, budget overruns, and overall client and/or participant dissatisfaction with outcomes. The root causes of construction project failure, Shahhosseini et al, 2015.

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Manage Changes, Don’t Let Them Manage You

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The architect made the change, and communicated it to the blockwork subcontractor to add the door on site. The architect also updated the drawings, but did not communicate the change to the broader team. This miss required a change order to be made for the design to be redone.

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2021

Autodesk Construction Cloud

She coordinates the architectural, structural, and civil drawings. She submits clarification requests for the information that is lacking or where the design drawings are in conflict. In 2015, he realized the importance of technology in construction and developed PPE’s IT initiative.