Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Virtually eliminate change orders and legal disputes. Business and operating models need to change to meet economic and environmental imperatives. “Customer” focus and organization mission focus. Process change management is a primary need. Gain full financial visibility and transparency.

Management 130

Management Procurement Change Orders Legal 130

Job Order Contracting

MAY 22, 2020

We help guide organizations to achieve accelerated improvement of their facilities repair, renovation, and construction outcomes through the development of a culture and client-specific program centered upon delivering customer value, and driven by proven LEAN processes, actionable data, enabling cloud technology, and ongoing training.

Management 190

Management Procurement Change Orders Innovation 190

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Collaborative LEAN process management is not understood and not practiced organization-wide by any federal sector agency or department. Most organizations rely upon historical cost data and/or contractor quotes, and/or other national average cost database with cost and/or other economic factors.

Management 130

Management Procurement Construction Change Orders 130

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This type of tool provides a common date environment (CDE) that minimizes miscommunications, change orders, errors due to outdated information, and the number of meetings required. While levels of access can be controlled all team members must be granted access to information required for their area of work.

Management 214

Management CSI Budgeting Budget 214

Job Order Contracting

MAY 28, 2022

Significantly improved use of financial resources – fewer change orders and virtual elimination of legal disputes. Robust LEAN Job Order Contracting improves construction productivity, compliance, and overall satisfaction while reducing cost time.

Contract 216

Contract Procurement Renovating Change Orders 216

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 30, 2021

Too often, organization fail to build solid internal and external teams in concert with their mission goals. Disengage your organization from traditional and hostile, contracting environments, and move to robust collaborative and integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery environments. I’d Like to Learn More.

Budgeting 177

Budgeting Budget Renovating Procurement 177

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The ability to clearly define detailed line item tasks defining the desired scope of work is critical to mitigating errors and omissions, reducing the number of change orders, as well as achieving defensible cost visibility and transparency.

Management 259

Management Construction Procurement Defense 259

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 29, 2022

4 Common data environment (example: Locally researched granular construction cost data, organized by CSI Masterformat). The processes and workflows are far from complex and can easily be tailored to any type or size of organization. Owner Leadership and Commitment. Common Data Environment. contact-form] via Four BT, LLC – www.4bt.us.

Renovating 196

Renovating Construction Environment Procurement 196

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 17, 2020

We help guide organizations to achieve accelerated improvement of their facilities repair, renovation, and construction outcomes through the development ofa culture centered upon delivering customer value, supported by proven LEAN processes, actionable data, enabling cloud technology, and ongoing training. ” Henry Ford. Learn more?

Construction 149

Construction Change Orders Procurement Legal 149

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 15, 2020

A properly developed UPB is central to improving and adequately communicating scope of work for projects, reducing the number of change orders, and assuring satisfactory outcomes for all participants and stakeholders. The unit price book, UPB, is one of the most important tools beyond introductory and ongoing training.

Procurement 149

Procurement Change Orders Renovating Innovation 149

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

administration of the Job Order Contract (JOC), a Contract designed to provide the ORGANIZATION NAME with a flexible and responsive contractual capability in support of their renovation, repair, and minor new construction services needs. Justification for nonrenewal from either the Contractor or the ORGANIZATION NAME is not required.

Contract 100

Contract Organization Change Orders Overhead 100

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 8, 2021

All the tools and support services are readily available to show people and organizations how to address facilities and physical infrastructure stewardship efficiently. Senior leadership must support requisite change and garnering that support and commitment is the role of public sector facilities professionals.

Management 130

Management Renovating Change Orders Infrastructure 130

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 18, 2021

A poorly defined and/or poorly communicated scope of work is responsible for the majority of change orders and cost overruns encountered. Furthermore, the discrete elements of a UPB can be then organized into an appropriate work schedule.

Contract 130

Contract Change Orders Renovating Project Management 130

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 23, 2024

Correspondence | Correspondence Types** – Users can now better organize and standardize their project Correspondence. Takeoff | Copy/Paste Takeoff Between Packages – Takeoff packages are a great way to organize quantification data based on the specific scope of work or bid package.

Products 105

Products Autodesk BIM Accounting 105

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Far too often AEC and real property owner organizations focus upon managing people, creating the “root cause” of multiple problems that eventually result in failure. It is a fundamental change in how organizations function internally and with each other. People are hired to do a job, provide a service, etc.

Procurement 169

Procurement Construction Plans Budgeting 169

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Select vendors based upon best value to your organization over an appropriate timeline. Consider total cost of the project/program, including change orders, potential for legal disputes, and especially prior performance on similar projects. Tasks should be organized by CSI Masterformat. Costs should be locally researched.

Products 100

Products Management Life Cycle Construction 100

Viewpoint Construction Technology

JANUARY 24, 2018

The 2017 ConTech Report indicates while these types of workflows are the most likely to utilize software programs with automated workflow functionality, many contractors are still using manual methods like paper or spreadsheets and communicating changes via phone or email.

Software 155

Software Software Contractors Change Orders 155

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Underperforming Public Sector Facilities Renovation Repair and New Builds – Time for Change. Whether a Federal, State, County, or Local Government, most public sector organizations underperform when it comes to planning, procuring, and executing facilities repair, renovation, or new builds. Introduction.

Renovating 211

Renovating Procurement Budgeting Budget 211

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 20, 2019

Inadequate Scope of Work – A poorly defined and/or poorly defined scope of work spells disaster for any construction project and results in cost overruns, change orders, and legal disputes. Improper Use of Technology – Far too many organizations consider technology a solution versus an enabler.

Renovating 114

Renovating Construction CSI Change Orders 114

Pro Builder

APRIL 19, 2021

For practices like estimates, time tracking, project management, change order management, accounting, and other key processes, mechanical contractor software has helped complete jobs more efficiently and effectively. The same is true for mechanical contractors. 5) Material Planning & Document Management. Building Software.

Software 52

Software Software Contractors Change Orders 52

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 6, 2021

Only improved early and ongoing collaboration and communication across all participants and stakeholders has proven to reduce errors and omissions, minimize the number of change orders, shorten overall project delivery times, improve quality, and reduce total project costs.

Life Cycle 130

Life Cycle Construction Renovating Procurement 130

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 18, 2023

Cost Management Releases Cost Management* | Required Fields for Change Orders and Contracts – To help ensure all changes comply with company-preferred best practices when submitting a potential change order or a contract, users now have the option in settings to make required fields mandatory, including type, custom attributes, and more.

Autodesk 52

Autodesk Change Orders Schedule Statistics 52

Viewpoint Construction Technology

MAY 15, 2018

Contractors have to pay attention to budgets, deadlines, collaborators, change orders, progress reports, payroll, safety, compliance requirements and much more. Once you know the requirements, you need to ensure all relevant people at your organization are aware of them. Reduce Manual Compliance Processes.

Management 135

Management Regulation Construction Documentation 135

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The ability to successfully account for and manage change during a project lies in an organization’s leadership and level of maturity relative to its strategies, processes, goals, and resources. Mature organization don’t react to change, they address change according to their programmatic process.

Project Management 161

Project Management Capterra Organization Management 161

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 29, 2017

KPIs are essential to facilities management, as the old axiom goes, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” While benchmarks against peer organizations are important, the collection and analysis of actual current and actionable information is preferable. Number/percentage of change orders.

Management 100

Management Change Orders Estimating Life Cycle 100

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

There are existing best management practices, tools, and support services for real property owners with appropriate leadership and competencies to support positive change. Change orders, errors, and omissions can be virtually eliminated.

Procurement 210

Procurement Plans Construction Renovating 210

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 20, 2020

LEAN JOC provides all the tools and support services to support the associated level of change management to move organizations away from traditional inefficient, antagonistic, and basically ‘ad hoc’ methods. A PROGRAM STRATEGY. The approach invests more resources earlier in the Project life-cycle.

Contract 132

Contract Life Cycle Environment Renovating 132

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 10, 2017

If this were done, there would be far fewer misunderstandings, errors, omissions, change orders, etc. In general, it is advantageous, if not a best management practice, to require all renovation.

Construction 100

Construction CSI Change Orders Visualization 100

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 15, 2018

An Introduction to Job Order Contracting – The LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Way! #1 Job Order Contracting (JOC) is a way for organizations to get numerous, commonly encountered construction projects done quickly and easily through multi-year contracts. 1 JOC is PROGRAM not a PROJECT.

Contract 100

Contract Change Orders Procurement Estimating 100

Job Order Contracting

MAY 14, 2018

The OpenJOC Approach supports and requires greater involvement by the owner team and demonstrated leadership and competency ensure that all internal and external teams are be motivated towards the organizations goals and objectives. Risk & Opportunity Management.

Contract 100

Contract Renovating Change Orders Organization 100

Viewpoint Construction Technology

APRIL 23, 2019

Technology is helping to change that dynamic , while also streamlining the HR and labor management workflows across construction organizations. If a change request is submitted for example, a project manger gets an alert on his dashboard, and from his mobile device can approve and create a change order.

Construction 187

Construction Software Software Estimating 187

HardHatChat

MARCH 4, 2019

One of the biggest challenges for commercial construction firms today is the tighter project timelines that have become the norm at every phase of a project – from shorter deadlines for submitting initial bids and budgets, to quicker resolution on addendums and change orders, to compressed schedules for construction and delivery.

Project Management 349

Project Management Commercial Management Construction 349

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rather than bidding out projects separately, as typically done for public sector construction projects, a Job Order Contracting 2021 allows a public sector organizations to construct a series of projects over time, using a competitively bid contract awarded before the projects are identified.

Contract 130

Contract Bidding Procurement CSI 130

Construction Junkie

OCTOBER 21, 2020

These systems can also create alerts and organize data in such a way that financial managers can spend more time actually analyzing the data, as opposed to collecting and organizing it.

Sage 145

Sage Management ProCore Construction 145

BD+C

AUGUST 28, 2023

This way, the change can be brought to the contractor in an organized manner, giving them time to optimize the process to minimize cost. Our AIA agreement outlines the appropriate procedures and processes for change orders. Communication earlier on can avert a multitude of future issues.

Construction 81

Construction AIA Architecture Contractors 81

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Core areas of focus, from a “60,000” foot view include; Strategic alignment of buildings and infrastructure with mission of the organization. Change management implement, specifically shifting from ‘ad hoc’ methods to program and process-based workflows.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Change Orders Procurement 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 24, 2023

Reviews | Archive Reviews* [Coming Soon] Now available in Autodesk Docs and BIM 360 Docs, members on web can simplify and organize their viewing experience with the new ability to archive closed and void reviews. With this activated, users can view and access information pertaining to the change order life cycle.

Autodesk 111

Autodesk BIM Construction Visualization 111