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Improving Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Clearly defined, roles, responsibilities and outcomes in written format (operating manuals and/or execution guides) and associated long-term multi-party agreements help to assure initial and ongoing consistent application of processes and associated workflows. The most glaring example is BIM. BIM is not a solution, but a tool.

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Proven Job Order Contracting Practices that Drive Improved Construction Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

While BIM has highlighte the need for integrating people, processes, and information, it does little to address the need to clearly establish workflows, information data sets, and requirements that drive outcomes that are truly beneficial for all participants and stakeholders. mandatory collaboration. mandatory collaboration.

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How to efficiently perform ongoing facilities maintenance, repair projects and minor new construction projects!

Job Order Contracting

Contract Management – Multi-year, multi-party agreements are established to support one or more Programs. Bid/Proposal Management – Lean is based upon several core elements, including a common data environment and early and ongoing communication between participants and stake holders. Learn more? via Four BT, LLC (4BT).

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Collaborative Construction Procurement Planning and Project Delivery = Best Value Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

A written Operations Manual or Execution guide is shared and part of the associated multi-party, long-term agreement. This approach assures that each activity is in concert with organizational needs, requirements, and processes designed to consistent achieve mutually beneficial best value outcomes for all participants.

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Define Construction Procurement

Job Order Contracting

– A process whereby contractual agreements are designed, bid, and executed between real property owners and construction contractors for renovation, repair, or new construction services for buildings or any form of physical infrastructure. Define Construction Procurement.

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How Much Does Rework Really Cost Your Job and What Can You Do to Stop It?

Construction Junkie

Use BIM and Virtual Design and Construction With features like clash detection, built in scheduling and cost modeling, BIM and VDC offers plenty of opportunity to detect possible issues before wasting money and time. Besides developing skilled laborers, how else can we attempt to lessen the effect of rework on our jobs?

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A Step Closer to BIM? NIBS and AIA Working toward Centralized Building Information Resource

Building Information Management

Also, the “let’s keep the Owner in the dark” or the “let’s not work together”, and the “bid low and make it up in change orders” , or “let’s accept the lowest bid and hope for the best” approaches to ruin.