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How to Manage Compliance for Construction Success

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Contractors have to pay attention to budgets, deadlines, collaborators, change orders, progress reports, payroll, safety, compliance requirements and much more. Viewpoint recently published a white paper about tackling this challenge. Benefits of Software Solutions for Construction Compliance.

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OpenJOC – LEAN Construction Delivery / Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

Thus, properly deveolped Job Order Contracts have documented processes that support early and ongoing sharing of project work scope, detailed costs, and other required information, and remove the ‘ad hoc’ methods, misinformation, distrust, delays, and change orders associated with traditional construction delivery methods.

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Is a BIM Mandate Coming to the US?

Viewpoint Construction Technology

BIM provides many benefits to contractors, including reduced errors and rework, better logistics, more easily accessible documents, increased bid accuracy and more efficient change order management, all of which mean contractors may choose to adopt BIM in the future.

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Construction Cost Estimating Software vs. Spreadsheets – State of the Nation 2012

Building Information Management

Sophisticated, Cost estimating and Efficient Project Delivery Software systems are now available, and have been proven over the past decade. White Paper – Cost Estimating Evolution . Construction estimating involves the estimating of material, labor, equipment, overhead/profit and contingencies.

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Collaboration, Transparency, Accuracy, Process, and supporting Technology – The Keys to Improved Productivity for Building Construction, Renovation, Repair, and Sustainability

Building Information Management

until it shifts its focus exclusively to culture and process change. We need to recognize that design-bid-build (DBB) and even design-build (DB) and the associated “accepted” practices of change orders and lawsuits are contrary to the basic tenants of productivity, collaboration, transparency, and accuracy.

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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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Integrated Project Delivery – IPD, Job Order Contracting – JOC, BIM, and Efficient Project Delivery

Building Information Management

Project delivery methods must therefore be a component of BIM, a fact many/most 3D visualization software vendors appear to have ignored. Design/Build, CM, CM@R and, of course,Job Order Contracting. This helps to eliminate potential disputes and change orders that traditional construction delivery methods are known to experience.