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Job Order Contracting versus Design Bid Build

Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting versus Design Bid Build can help to measurably improve construction productivity, quality, delivery times, and overall satisfaction for all participants. Job order contracting saves significant time and improves quality, consistency, and overall satisfaction vs. traditional design-bid-build.

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

HardHatChat

Interestingly enough, we have found owners for many of the commercial construction projects out-to-bid are looking to work with design-build construction firms. As a former architect and member of the AIA, this couldn’t make me happier. Based on our backlog and client activity, we predict record growth in 2015. True partnership.

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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.

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Construction Forms for excel

Construction Cost Estimating

The documents and forms resemble the AIA (American Institute of Architects) and AGC (Associated General Contractors) formats, saving valuable time as they can be customized to suit specific needs while maintaining the standard verbage.

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#100:  Dealing With Rising Costs

NH Construction Law

Sometimes the benchmark is budgeted costs, i.e., the contractor’s actual buyout costs at bid time (or those of their subs if the subcontract prices are similarly allowed to fluctuate). And almost always the change order process must be invoked, with its timing limitations and waiver possibilities.

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Job Order Contract Execution Guide – Sample Template

Job Order Contracting

A Job Order Contract Execution Guide is a required element for any successful, best management practice JOC Program. The following template is provide for sample purposes only and should not be used a legally bidding document without through review and modification by appropriate Owner legal counsel. of Change Order is required.

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Litigation Topics for Prime / Subcontractor Contracts

Construction Law Monitor

AIA – American Institute of Architects is the most common standard form contracts in the construction industry. AIA contracts are a good starting point and offer contracts for Prime/sub relationships, Architect/owner, Owner/Prime, and any other design professional/contractor relationship that may exist. Notice Provisions.