Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Effective public sector construction project management requires an understanding of the requisite role of owners as stakeholders. Resource Allocation – A shared, common understanding of labor, material, equipment, time, productivity, and cost requirement is necessary to achieve a fair balance between initiatives risk management.

Project Management 207

Project Management Management Procurement Construction 207

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 3, 2020

Consistent on-time, on-budget delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects is possible only when owners have the requisite levels of leadership and competency. Robust LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery tools and services are readily available.

Procurement 151

Procurement Plans Construction Environment 151

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The early and ongoing integration of People, Process, Information, and Technology can drive optimal repair, renovation, and new construction outcomes. LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery can consistently drive significant improvement over traditional methods.

Procurement 149

Procurement Plans Construction Renovating 149

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 22, 2019

Efficient & Quality Construction Services Procurement and Delivery should not be this hard! We all know what can go terribly wrong with traditional construction procurement and delivery processes… lack of financial visibility, poor work scope definition, quality issues, legal disputes… in short, poor outcomes tend to be the norm.

Procurement 100

Procurement Construction Contract Legal 100

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 7, 2023

Alliance Contracting in Construction provides a real opportunity for the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build project on time and on budget. It a relationship characterized by risk/reward sharing and a no blame/no-disputes framework, and full financial transparency.

Contract 175

Contract Procurement Construction Foundation 175

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Construction services procurement best management practices focus upon collaboration and change management. The following are all resident within a LEAN construction alliance contract and/or integrated LEAN collaborative construction procurement and project delivery method.

Procurement 100

Procurement Management Construction Contract 100

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 22, 2019

BEST VALUE & COMPLIANT Construction Planning, Procurement, And Project Delivery can be deployed and managed today using a robust suite LEAN tools and services. The easiest way to describe LEAN and BEST VALUE construction, is to note what it is not. What is LEAN Construction? See: Simple Guide to LEAN Construction.

Procurement 100

Procurement Plans Construction Life Cycle 100

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 2, 2016

Best value procurement, when combined with collaborative construction delivery methods, easily yields significantly improved construction productivity, higher levels of quality, and lower total costs of ownership. Teams that share information, risks and rewards.

Procurement 100

Procurement Life Cycle Construction Contract 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 25, 2023

Embrace the next generation of Construction and Sustainable Lifecycle Facilities Management! Owners & Developers – Planners – Designers – Procurement Professionals – Builders Collaborate with internal and external teams to detail Scope of Work and validate local market construction costs.

Sustainability 215

Sustainability Management Renovating Construction 215

Construction Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Professor David Mosey CBE , Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution, King’s College London , explains the newly launched Gold Standard verification scheme for frameworks and alliances, the aim of which is to improve value, reduce risk and achieve net zero on projects.

Procurement 52

Procurement Construction Risk 52

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 22, 2023

Preconstruction determines what will be built and how it will be procured and delivered. A robust preconstruction process mitigates risk, virually eliminates change orders, ensures regulatory compliance, provide cost transparency, reduces project delivery times, and overall construction costs by 30%-40%+ vs. traditional methods. #1.

Procurement 192

Procurement Change Orders Accounting Risk 192

Construction Law

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major failings in the procurement and project management processes have been highlighted by Lord Hardie’s report (see News) as responsible for what must be one of the biggest infrastructure procurement screw ups in Scottish history. Neither TIE or the council had the necessary expertise to procure and manage a project like this.

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Procurement Transportation Contract Infrastructure 52

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Learning how to effciently manage dynamic project is the first step toward solving FM and construction waste. Image Source: Leyla Acaroglu ([link] The lack of system thinking across the FM and construction sector is a primary cause of rampant economic and environmental waste. Care of People.

Management 179

Management Construction Procurement CSI 179

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Innovative construction capital delivery for public sector owners can consistently enable quality, on-time, on-budget and fully compliant repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new build outcomes. 85% of all construction projects are over-budget, late, and/or poorly completed. Primary Causes of Construction Failures.

Innovation 202

Innovation Procurement Construction Budgeting 202

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 15, 2020

The path to best value facilities requires competency in both life-cycle total-cost-of-ownership asset management and LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. via Four BT, LLC, the AEC industry’s innovative integrated project delivery, construction cost data, and SAAS technology provider.

Procurement 131

Procurement Plans Life Cycle Renovating 131

Construction Law

MARCH 2, 2023

Science, technology and innovation are at the heart of the UK’s future and procurement and infrastructure policies have key roles to play in producing the necessary conditions for fostering them, say former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Conservative Party leader William Hague in a joint report.

Procurement 52

Procurement Innovation Infrastructure Risk 52

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 20, 2023

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.

Estimating 217

Estimating CSI Life Cycle Construction 217

Job Order Contracting

MAY 14, 2020

Robust tools and services are readily available to support LEAN construction planning, procurement and project delivery. Relationships based upon value, performance, mutual trust/respect, and shared risk/reward. The post Why LEAN Construction Matters appeared first on 4BT.

Construction 235

Construction Budgeting Budget Procurement 235

Job Order Contracting

MAY 26, 2020

Collaborative Construction and FM Technology. BIM Model Integration, also in a federated form, allows you to keep information connected to models, driving significant time savings and the reduction of the risk associated with the inability to access current actionable information.

Procurement 151

Procurement Plans Life Cycle Documentation 151

Construction Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Making existing infrastructure resilient to extreme weather and ensuring that new designs allow for rainfall patterns when that we don’t know for sure yet what they will be is a major challenge for construction. Public procurement in the UK is a mess. Why is that, he asked. Good question.

Procurement 40

Procurement Infrastructure Deals Management 40

Construction Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Procurement related guidance and advice has been coming thick and fast in recent weeks. The Guidance seeks to learn from the Grenfell Tower disaster, co-authored by construction law specialist Professor David Mosey and Russell Poynter-Brown of On Pole Ltd on behalf of the King’s College London Centre of Construction Law.

Procurement 52

Procurement Safety Consulting Documentation 52

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 15, 2019

Proven collaborative construction delivery methods have existed for decades. These solutions can consistently assure that quality renovation, repair, and new construction projects are delivered on-time and on-budget. See… Simple Guide to LEAN Construction. ). Technology. Collaborative technology ). Proven Solutions.

Procurement 100

Procurement Organization Plans Construction 100

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Efficient management of the numerous repair, renovation, and construction project facing real property owners requires changing how owner, architecture, engineer, and builder relationships are structured. Owner value can only be increased if financial and technical knowledge and risks are shared with the parties doing the work.

Procurement 100

Procurement Renovating Life Cycle Risk 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 17, 2021

Reliable construction cost estimating is important to real property owners, facilities management professions, architects, and engineers. Reliable construction cost estimating… Improves Decision Making: Reliable construction costs be compared to organizational process impacts.

Estimating 152

Estimating Construction CSI Procurement 152

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 4, 2020

Traditionally, the primary if not sole benefit of IDIQ contracting and project delivery has been reducing the time from planning to construction. Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) is a form of procurement. When associated with construction, one or more awarded construction contractors may be involved.

Products 149

Products Procurement Construction Life Cycle 149

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 27, 2020

How real property owners and facilities management professionals traditionally plan, procure, and deliver projects is the most significant barrier to improving capital reinvestment performance outcomes. Learn more about… Lean Construction. Poor collaboration is the most primary cause of construction project failure.

Renovating 260

Renovating Plans Procurement Construction 260

Construction Law

MAY 2, 2024

Editor’s comment Work will flow soon from giant water investment programme The water industry’s giant AMP 8 investment programme will place procurement under the spotlight, says Editor Nick Barrett. Legal terms explained Isabella Salame of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP explains what is meant by non-delegable duties.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 4, 2023

The validity of a construction cost estimate, the most important aspect, is often overlooked and resulting in billions of dollars was every year. A construction cost estimate must be independently validated. Key Principles There are key principles that should be adhered to when preparing a construction cost estimate.

Estimating 196

Estimating Construction Risk Documentation 196

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

System Thinking for FM and Construction Peter Cholakis The lack of system thinking for FM and construction is a primary cause of rampant economic and environmental waste. We all know that traditional planning, procurement, and project delivery practices are adversarial, and broken, yet we fail to address this basic issue.

Construction 130

Construction Procurement CSI Innovation 130

Job Order Contracting

JULY 1, 2019

Any real property owner can develop and deploy a robust Framework for Integrated Facilities Planning, Procurement, and LEAN Project Delivery. The benefits of LEAN process adoption consistent include the optimized delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects.

Procurement 100

Procurement Plans Management CSI 100

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The following is an outline of basic Construction Cost Audit Fundamentals when reviewing a construction cost estimate and conducting a construction cost audit. Construction Cost Audit Fundamentals. Regular audit are mandatory for any LEAN construction planning, procurement, and delivery implementation.

Construction 160

Construction Procurement Documentation CSI 160

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Construction Cost Management is now possible with the adoption of a robust programmatic process that integrates associated planning, procurement, and project delivery activities and people, information, and enabling technologies. Planning, procurement, and project delivery are not integrated. contact-form].

Management 130

Management Procurement Construction Change Orders 130

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 18, 2020

There are multiple types of construction delivery methods that strive to achieve superior outcomes to traditional design-bid-build, design-build, CM@R, etc. These including alliance contracting/project alliancing, LEAN construction, integrated project delivery, LEAN job order contracting. ” – Henry Ford.

Contract 139

Contract Construction Procurement Agreement 139

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 6, 2021

Successful Construction Project Delivery, whether repair, renovation, maintenance, or new builds, can only be consistently achieved with a primary focus upon People… then Process, Information, and enabling Technology. The post Construction is NOT complex… People are. What documentation, forms are required? Email Address.

Life Cycle 130

Life Cycle Construction Renovating Procurement 130

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

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

Schedule 163

Schedule Management Procurement Construction 163

Lets Build

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Arcadis recently released a report about international construction inflation and costs with some interesting findings: Construction companies in both developed and emerging economies are experiencing price increases of over 5%. So what can we do to survive when construction costs are higher than ever?

Construction 148

Construction Materials Risk Management 148

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 5, 2022

Robust, integrated LEAN asset planning, procurement, and project delivery solutions are readily available to establish efficient physical asset life cycle management programs. Common data environment, including detailed line item locally researched unit price construction cost data. via Four BT, LLC – www.4bt.us Close out.

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Management Procurement Life Cycle Equity 223