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Mitigating Uncertainty in Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Builds

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A robust programmatic process applied to all projects by all internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery team members produces a 30%-40% reduction in waste (due to inadequate cost visibility/management, rework/change orders). CSI Masterfomat).

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Construction Project Delivery Leadership – Public Sector

Job Order Contracting

Until information is shared in the above manner there can be no significant improvement of the extreme levels of waste associated with architecture, engineering, construction, or operations of the build environment. Pilot robust LEAN methods (OpenJOC Job Order Contracting, and Integrated Project Delivery).

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LEAN Construction Masterformat

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repair, maintenance, construction projects, as well as all participants and stakeholders, to use common terms, definitions, and standardized data architectures. If this were done, there would be far fewer misunderstandings, errors, omissions, change orders, etc. COBie should be fully compatible and not divergent.

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Independent Objective Locally Researched Construction Cost Data

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Both IPD and JOC require a common data environment, CDE, to drive communication, provide financial transparency, and to mitigate the number of errors and omissions and changes orders that are prevalent with traditional construction delivery (design-bid-build, lowest bidder, design-build…).

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Latest software for estimating & designing architectural projects

Construction Cost Estimating

Latest software for estimating & designing architectural projects. At the time of design phase, accurate estimation can help architect to cut costs, remove RFIs, potential change orders and other supplementary costs that may arise throughout the actual building stage. Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

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Reduced project related cost growth per change order. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 19(4), 342-368. Russell Sage Foundation. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 18(5), 444-461. Partnering is the foundation of a learning organization. 2004; Black et al.,

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

There’s a commercial for a local kitchen design company that I often hear on the radio that starts, “The form has to follow the function…” According to Wikipedia, this phrase comes from a modern architecture and design principle that says to base the shape of a building or object on its intended purpose of function. change orders.