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Using Business Intelligence to Gain a Competitive Edge

Viewpoint Construction Technology

When profit margins are thin, it doesn’t take much to wipe out a project’s financial benefits. Insights from all this information could increase profit and productivity and reduce time, errors, and material waste. Insights from all this information could increase profit and productivity and reduce time, errors, and material waste.

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Job Order Contracting – Lean Construction History

Job Order Contracting

Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) construction delivery was too inefficient for the large numbers of renovation, repair, and sustainment/maintenance projects. Share Rewards and Risk. is intended to include contractor overhead, profit and any items that reflect the contractor and/or site and/or requirements.

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Job Order Contracting – JOC – Best Management Practices

Building Information Management

A reasonable profit, quality, and projects complete on-time and on-budge, and long term relationships are the goal. There are multiple case studies, white papers, and research documents. Bare costs do not include contractor’s overhead(s) and profit. Joint site walks and scoping common. Annual volume. Competition.

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Contractors Are Renting Rather Than Buying More Equipment.

ENR Construction

White Papers. The increased competition has narrowed already slim bidding margins, forcing contractors to eke out a financial edge wherever possible. Equipment rentals allow contractors to shift downtime risk while trimming expenses, including licensing, insurance, taxes and debt, among others. Book Reviews. Social Media.

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How to Select a JOC Unit Price Book

Building Information Management

How to Select a JOC Unit Price Book– WHITE PAPER. Contractors – Detailed, unit price, line item estimates are used to bid jobs and also done by general contractors and construction managers to validate bids from sub-contractors. Presentation of line items as bare costs or inclusive of overhead and profit.

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How to Select a JOC Unit Price Book

Building Information Management

How to Select a JOC Unit Price Book– WHITE PAPER. Contractors – Detailed, unit price, line item estimates are used to bid jobs and also done by general contractors and construction managers to validate bids from sub-contractors. Presentation of line items as bare costs or inclusive of overhead and profit.

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The Top 200 Environmental Firms for 2012: Analysis | ENR.

ENR Construction

White Papers. The firm noted last month improved operating profit for its North American environmental-infrastructure segment. He says the approach has boosted "cost to capture" by up to 10 times, creating a challenge for small business in managing added risk. Book Reviews. Information Technology. Construction Technology.