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LEAN Construction Project Delivery and Facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Life-cycle Management

Job Order Contracting

Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers. Statistically reliable. Here, a somewhat pervasive focus upon first-costs versus life-cycle costs must be addressed and altered.

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Collaboration in Construction Matters

Job Order Contracting

Leave design-bid-build and even design-build behind if you truly want to maximize your limited facilities management resource to the betterment of your organization. Are you interested in improving your life-cycle facilities management outcomes? contact-form].

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges. INTRODUCTION.

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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

As a result of 1800+ tests, researchers have concluded that a primary cause in low project performance (time, cost and customer satisfaction) is the traditional owner-vendor relationship in which the owner uses a design, bid and build (DBB) approach. Overall focus must shift from first-cost mentality to life-cycle/total-cost-of-ownership.

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LEAN for Facilities Operation and Maintenance

Job Order Contracting

Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers. Statistically reliable. Here, a somewhat pervasive focus upon first-costs versus life-cycle costs must be addressed and altered.

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Construction Cost Estimators, BIM, and Efficient Project Delivery

Building Information Management

That said, it’s a statistical result, as most estimators also work independently and/or on smaller jobs , and/or do a limited number of estimates , and/or work in relatively specialized areas. Uncategorized Best Practices BIM construction cost estimating cost estimators life-cycle costing'

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Facilities Operations & Maintenance Management

Job Order Contracting

Appropriate decision-support tools and services (technology, data, and consulting/education/support) must be included to enable consideration of life-cycle costs and financial resource prioritization. Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle / total cost of ownership management techniques. Statistically reliable.