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

Job Order Contracting

An open, objective, independent and verifiable JOC Cost Estimating, Project Management, and Document Management System for real property owners, architects, contractors, facilities management, and oversight groups. Monitor and store contract and project costs over time, as well as update cost estimates/projections in seconds.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Construction specifications - vital.

Construction Cost Estimating

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. It consists of 50 Divisions , to be applied for integrating facility life cycle and maintenance information into the building knowledge base. Estimating Sheets Sample. Estimate TakeOff Sheets. Construction Estimate Sheets. Labour Estimate Sheets. Estimating Vidoe.

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Sustainability of DOD Buildings – Reuse of Existing Buildings

Building Information Management

Cost estimates and construction bid requests should include materials quantities in addition to costs to evaluate and validate GHG impacts. Incorporate life-cycle GHG emissions analysis into DoD MILCON and SRM programs. Virtual elimination of legal disputes, claims and mitigation of change orders. Recommendations.

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Sustainability of DOD Buildings – Reuse of Existing Buildings

Building Information Management

Cost estimates and construction bid requests should include materials quantities in addition to costs to evaluate and validate GHG impacts. Incorporate life-cycle GHG emissions analysis into DoD MILCON and SRM programs. Virtual elimination of legal disputes, claims and mitigation of change orders. Recommendations.

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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. An example is 4Clicks Project Estimator combined with RSMeans Cost Data, and/or organizational specific unit price books. Job Order Contracting Process.

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BIM Collaboration – Fact or Fiction?

Building Information Management

The design-bid-build construction delivery method and associated practices such of awarding contracts to the lowest bidder do little more than a fuel to the fires of waste, protracted project timelines, change orders, and legal disputes.

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Facilities are NOT Commodities – LEAN Best Management Practices

Building Information Management

The efficient and effective renovation, repair, sustainment, and new construction of facilities, other physical infrastructure and associated life-cycle management require knowledge, capability, transparency, collaboration, and robust business processes. is simply not doing their job.