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The Blueprint for Better Expense Management

Construction Business Owner

How Construction Companies Can Boost Cash Flow and Profitability. How your company pays for purchases and manages expenses impacts your employees, your customers, and your key business metrics, including profitability. Track job costs more accurately for better profit margins. project profitability. Greg Ragsdale.

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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. is intended to include contractor overhead, profit and any items that reflect the contractor and/or site and/or requirements. Hold a Lessons Learned Workshop at Close Out.

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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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Using RSMeans Cost Data for Job Order Contracting – JOC – October 2013

Building Information Management

The follow are excerpts from a RSMeans White Paper. Owners have reams of rules and regulations to follow in order to put a project out for bid fairly. Job Order Contracting offers an alternative to traditional bidding processes. “Traditional construction delivery methods are fraught with problems.

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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. An idle crew waiting for a replacement machine or repairs can add unexpected costs that skew project profitability. Book Reviews. Information Technology. 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.