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The Pillars of Sustainable Facilities Management

Job Order Contracting

Robust LEAN programmatic processes are used to efficiently manage all repair, renovation, and new build requirements. Owners are knowledgeable of cost management and implications as are design-builders, inclusive of assessing risk related to any changes or issues. Change orders are managed and virtually eliminated.

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LEAN Construction Masterformat

Job Order Contracting

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

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CONNECT Construction with Best Value

Job Order Contracting

The consistent execution of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction activities on-time, and on-budget, remains elusive to most, yet is readily available to all. Five key areas are critical to effecting significant, long-term improve in construction (repair, renovation, maintenance, new builds) outcomes.

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JOC – Job Order Contracting – Improving Productivity for Facility Renovation, Repair, Sustainability, and Construction

Building Information Management

Sure, you can tweak a few things here to attempt be more efficient with respect to your numerous renovation, repair, sustainability, and construction projects, but substantial productivity gains require fundamentally changing how you do things. Being productive is not just about being efficient. Learn more at [link].

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BIM and Cloud Computing – Get Beyond 3D Visualization and Focus Upon the “I”

Building Information Management

Current the most common being use of proprietary 3D visualization software for the purpose of supporting the design and construction phases of the facility life-cycle. All of these are common within all phases of construction, repair, renovation, or sustainability projects. BIM can be applied at various levels.

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Integrated project delivery method

Job Order Contracting

An integrated project delivery method is arguably required in order to achieve desired quality, satisfaction, timing, and cost for over 90% of renovation, repair, or new construction projects executed. Within a Job Order Contract integrated project delivery method, the Common Data Environment is provided by the Unit Price Book, UPB.

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The TOP 10 Things ALL Facility Owners Need to Know – Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment –

Building Information Management

Your budget is largely operations/repair/renovation/maintenance, not new construction. Use key performance indicators, KPIs – # of change orders, # of disputes, # of project completed on-time/on-budget, facility condition index (FCI), adequacy index … Leverage technology, especially cloud computing.