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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. Learn more? Link to Articles and Research Studies. contact-form].

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Efficient Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Construction Basics

Job Order Contracting

Even though the majority of costs (approximately 80% of total life-cycle costs) occur during the operational and maintenance (O&M) phase, decision-making is largely made based upon lowest bidder versus best value as well as current year impacts versus multi-year considerations. Integrated Projects Delivery. Job Order Contracting.

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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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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. Leverage of local expertise and domain knowledge combined with global oversight, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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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. BIM is “the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technologies” BIM Framework. 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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