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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

– 2016, Arizona State University – Job Order Contracting Performance Survey-2015. Discriminating: small changes are meaningful. Shorter procurement times. This obstacle can only be overcome by changing current formal education and professional training programs. Higher quality work product. Lower total cost.

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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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Energy-Efficiency Road Map: Whole-Building Envelope Sealing

Pro Builder

As these field studies progressed, Dave Bohac, director of research for the Center for Energy and Environment (CEE), procured funding to apply the technology to new and existing multifamily apartment units in Minnesota. Builders here are used to building tight,” Bohac says, noting that since 2015, new homes in Minnesota must achieve 3.0

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