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The TOP 10 Things ALL Facility Owners Need to Know – Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment –

Building Information Management

Many/most Owners do not have the knowledge, capability, or organizational buy-in to support life-cycle management of the built environment. Far too often focus is upon first-costs vs. life-cycle costs. Your budget is largely operations/repair/renovation/maintenance, not new construction.

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Efficient Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Construction Basics

Job Order Contracting

As a result, staggering levels of economic and environmental waster are common across the architectural, engineering, construction, operations, and owner groups. There are currently at least three proven LEAN methods relevant to this discussion: Life-cycle total cost-of-ownership modeling and management. Job Order Contracting.

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Job Order Contracting Done Right! Open, Best Value, Efficient

Job Order Contracting

OpenJOC uses common, standardized terms, definitions, and data architectures (CSI Masterformat licensee) to minimize cross discipline data gaps and errors and to improve collaboration. Proven collaborative LEAN Collaborative construction delivery best management practices, Standardized terms, definition, and data architectures.

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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

The way to deliver 96%+ of renovation, repair, and maintenance projects on-time, on-budget, and at the appropriate level of quality is to enable collaboration with contractors and other expert service providers. – 2016, Arizona State University – Job Order Contracting Performance Survey-2015.

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10 Ways to Reduce Construction Risk with Collaboration

Building Information Management

Change orders, lack of timely and accurate information, poor leadership, and a dysfunctional team are the reasons the majority of construction projects end up being over budget, late, and dissatisfaction among all participants. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures (Uniformat/ Masterformat/Omniclass).

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Integrated project delivery method

Job Order Contracting

These benefits are largely derived through the use of a common data environment, CDE, which dramatically improves communication and collaboration throughout the project life-cycle. A detailed, full transparent line item construction cost estimate is critical for improving collaboration and reducing change orders. .

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Optimize Facility Renovation, Repair, and Construction Delivery with Robust Business Processes

Building Information Management

They remain plagued by low productivity, a low-bid/change-order mentality, and adversarial relationships among all construction project participants. Also, all parties must implement methods to improve the customer experience of building users. Many AEC organizations find these objectives difficult to achieve.