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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

A credible construction cost estimate is required prior to engaging in procurement. The follow elements are common to a credible construction cost estimate. Credible Cost Estimate Core Elements #1 Objectivity – The information used and those invovled in the creation of the construction cost estimate must be objective.

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Better Manage Construction Costs Schedules and Quality

Job Order Contracting

Over eighty percent (80%) of construction projects are over-budget, late, or not competed correctly. Sixty (60%) percent of all project fail to meet both cost and and schedule targets. Fortunately there are proven processes to better manage construction costs, schedules, and quality.

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8 essential steps for effective project cost estimation and budgeting

Fieldwire

Estimating project costs correctly and managing the budget accordingly are just as vital. All subcontractors make project cost estimation and budgeting errors. Follow these eight essential steps to estimate project costs and budget funds effectively to prevent grave miscalculations.

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Adaptive Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Adaptive Lean Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery tools and services are readily available to assure the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction projects on-time and on-budget. Recognition and leverage of the expertise of those actually doing the work is the norm.

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Early estimates only part of the procurement problem

Construction Law

The UK’s poor procurement practices are highlighted yet again by the news that the £19bn Crossrail project can’t be completed with the money available to the project. Another chapter in the long history of analysing why the UK’s procurement practices are so poor has just been produced by the National Audit Office (see News).

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IPD – Ensuring Construction COLLABORATION from Planning, through Procurement, through Project Delivery, and Beyond!

Job Order Contracting

Ensuring COLLABORATION from Planning, through Procurement, through Project Delivery, and Beyond for repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction requires an integrated outcome-focused process. The post IPD – Ensuring Construction COLLABORATION from Planning, through Procurement, through Project Delivery, and Beyond!

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LEAN Job Order Contracting – What Public Sector Facilities Professionals Need to Know

Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting (JOC) has been distorted into a way to simply speed the procurement of repair, renovation, and new build construction, bypassing procurement rigors and doing little to assure mutually beneficial benefit to owners and design-builder or overall efficiency. Schedule a 15-minute introductory call , or visit www.4bt.us.

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