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Improve Construction Productivity Via Relationship Management

Job Order Contracting

Best Value Procurement – Put aside cost low bid/lowest technically acceptable procurement strategies. Consider total cost of the project/program, including change orders, potential for legal disputes, and especially prior performance on similar projects. Costs should be locally researched. Learn more? contact-form].

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Efficient Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Construction Basics

Job Order Contracting

Multiple competencies/disciplines, business domains, and technologies are required to to ensure optimal functionality of the built environment. There are currently at least three proven LEAN methods relevant to this discussion: Life-cycle total cost-of-ownership modeling and management. Integrated Projects Delivery.

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

Job Order Contracting

LEAN collaborative construction delivery, throughout a structures life-cycle, from concept through demolition/recycling, applied leveraging best management practices, a standardized/common “language”, and tools. Centralized oversight and coordination, yet enabled use of local management and expertise, within a shared environment.

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Why Construction Productivity is Low vs. every other sector.

Building Information Management

Construction productivity remains low, if not in decline ( with the exception of an uptick due to the multi-billion dollar federal government “shovel ready” investments of 2007/8) due to the continued use of archaic, antagonistic, and counterproductive construction delivery methods such as design-bid-build. Your thoughts?

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Built Environment Life-Management, BIM, LEAN, and Efficient Project Delivery

Building Information Management

Life-cycle Management 101. BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. The following graphic portrays a perspective of the construction delivery method as a component of life-cycle management and/or a BIM framework.

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Why the majority of CMMS System Implemenations Fail

Building Information Management

How many Owners still wallow in design-bid-build and change-orders, legal disputes, and poor quality vs. collaborative efficient methods such as Job Order Contracting and Integrated Project Delivery? Facility Life-cycle Management Framework. That’s the hard question. 46453858-Asset-Lifecyle-Model[1].

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BIM Strategy, Collaboration, and Interoperablity… Getting it right from square one.

Building Information Management

Construction delivery methods are at the center of this ongoing transformation as they dictate the structure, tone, and legal requirements of any project. How built environment stakeholders share information and work together will continue to evolve. The drivers for change include environmental, economic, and technology factors.

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