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Controlling Construction Costs, Rocket Science, and Time Travel

Job Order Contracting

Validate Contractor and Subcontractor Quotes Obtaining comparative bids on all subcontracted work will not provide sufficient cost visibility. EVERY project can broken done into discrete elements called line item construction tasks. Both IPD and JOC have been proven for decades and are well evolved.

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Integrated Project Delivery Software and Support Services

Job Order Contracting

Upload and share documents and make them available to your whole team – including PDF, Word and Excel files, images and videos. Common Data Environment.

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Celebrating CSI’s 75th anniversary

Construction Specifier

By Stacy Rinella This year, the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) reached an important milestone—it has been bridging the divide between various sectors of the building industry for seven decades now. The following year, a motion was adopted to authorize the organization and incorporation of what would be known as the CSI.

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Best Construction Cost Estimating Solution

Job Order Contracting

Document Management – Version control, inclusive of document check-in/check-out is a must for assuring everyone is working the right information at the right time. National average cost databases (with or without cost factors), and/or historical costs simply are insufficient. and Detailed BIM Information.

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Considering a Job Order Contract?

Job Order Contracting

All prequalified contractors invited to bid should submit sealed bids based on one or more adjustment factors / coefficients to the unit prices listed in the approved JOC unit price book (UPB). The approved JOC unit price book should be locally researched and organized using CSI Masterformat. no use of economic cost factors).

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LEAN Construction Cost Estimating

Job Order Contracting

Use a common data environment (CDE), specifically locally researched unit prices organized via CSI Masterformat. Leverage document management, version control, access control, check-in/check-out, detailed change logging. Replace traditional design-bid-build and design-build with integrated project delivery.

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Value-based Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

A locally researched detailed line item unit price book, organized using a standard data format, i.e. CSI Masterformat, is a key CDE element.