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Job Order Contracting Doesn’t Have to be Complex or Expensive

Job Order Contracting

The Design-Bid-Build (DBB) model has perpetuated an antagonistic inefficient environment for decades. While there are many reasons why projects fail, it is the project delivery method and owner leadership and culture that ultimately is the primary cause. If you want different outcomes, it’s time to try something different.

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NAHB Partners With Pro Builder/SGC Horizon

Pro Builder

This new agreement spans the broad range of SGC’s family of residential construction-related media products, providing an amplified voice for NAHB’s work. NAHB is driven to produce a business-friendly policy environment that enables our members to build a better product and a better business. W2W4 at NAHB.

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Job Order Contracting Lessons Learned Regarding Improving Construction Productivity

Job Order Contracting

Here are a few lessons learned with respect to improving construction productivity, and overall life-cycle management of the built environment. Continuous education, improvement, and collaboration drive better outcomes. Multi-party Agreements. That said, data is meaningless if not interpreted and applied properly. Collaboration.

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The Global Climate Action Summit: A Quick Guide

Stok

stok is excited to join this year’s Global Climate Action Summit in welcoming world leaders to celebrate climate action and inspire greater commitments in support of the Paris Agreement. The built environment is by far the largest contributor to climate change. Carbon Smart Building Day (Organized by: Carbon Innovations | Sept.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

BD+C

The built environment generates 42% of annual global CO 2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Photo: Courtesy Kingspan HOW THE PRIVATE SECTOR COMES INTO PLAY To significantly reduce embodied carbon in the built environment, the private sector must also do its part to decarbonize buildings.

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Proven Job Order Contracting Practices that Drive Improved Construction Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

While the issues of low productivity and associated economic and environmental waste associated with constructing and sustaining built structures has been well documented, education and training relative to existing solutions has been insufficient. multi-party agreement, complete with an Operations Manuals / Execution Guide.

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Greenbuild: Designing the Perfect Green People

Green Building Law Update

I was in an education session watching presenter on the LEED materials credits talk about ‘cradle to cradle’ while Bill McDonough (the author of one of the most important environmental manifestos of our time, “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”) was leaning against the wall in the back of the room.

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