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The Financial Case for High Performance Buildings: Why It Matters

Stok

In a white paper on The Financial Case for High Performance Buildings, set to be publicly available in September 2018, stok argues that the seemingly intangible occupant impacts of the built environment are quantifiable from a bottom line perspective. At the same time, buildings account for over 40% of U.S.

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The digital black hole impacting the construction industry

Fieldwire

This way of working is neither transparent nor accountable, and it’s easy for asset management to become dependent on specific individuals – meaning it’s difficult and complex for anyone else to pick up the baton if a key person is out of the office. This can help improve planning and overall profitability.

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What is a JOC Unit Price Book

Job Order Contracting

A JOC Unit Price Book is a fixed list of detailed construction tasks and associated pricing/costs that is used to estimate costs for individual JOC projects/job orders, associated with a JOC Program. on an general basis. The reason is that the OpenJOC UPB is locally research and does not include contractor overhead and profit.

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How to Select a JOC Unit Price Book

Building Information Management

How to Select a JOC Unit Price Book– WHITE PAPER. The cost database and associated projects and estimates can only be cost effectively created, stored, maintained, and used within a common data environment and JOC-specific technology. Modifiers, on average, account for 30% of the cost a a JOC task order. INTRODUCTION.

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How to Select a JOC Unit Price Book

Building Information Management

How to Select a JOC Unit Price Book– WHITE PAPER. The cost database and associated projects and estimates can only be cost effectively created, stored, maintained, and used within a common data environment and JOC-specific technology. Modifiers, on average, account for 30% of the cost a a JOC task order. INTRODUCTION.

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Contractors Are Renting Rather Than Buying More Equipment.

ENR Construction

White Papers. rental business grew an estimated 18.6% Maintenance Blues While rentals account for only 1% to 3% of total project costs, experts say, a non-functioning machine can bring a jobsite to a standstill. Book Reviews. Information Technology. Construction Technology. Social Media. Earn Continuing Education Credits.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

Pro Builder

If those trends continued, Clark reckoned housing affordability in the Salt Lake metro area would follow the same path as California’s Silicon Valley, potentially creating an estimated shortage of 50,845 housing units in the Salt Lake market by 2044, according to a 2018 study by the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. “We