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Auditor Recommended JOC Program Best Practices

Job Order Contracting

Negotiating individual projects is critical to ensuring quality work at fair and reasonable prices. You should establish guidelines for evaluating and negotiating Job Order Contract proposals. Excessive use of consultants. Place limits (caps) on the use of non-catalog items.

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JobCost Coding Best Practices

Cassell Construction Estimating

While there’s no single right answer for all contractors, here are some guidelines based on our more than 25 years of construction consulting experience: The strategy for building useful and meaningful Jobcost phase codes is one of the most important decisions a company faces when setting up its ERP software.

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Project Management Trends: 2018 Topics to Watch

Construction Equipment

And yet, we had some significant shifts this year, most notably PMI releasing the sixth edition of “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” ( PMBOK® Guide ), alongside the Agile Practice Guide. Here are five trends that project managers should be watching out for in 2018. But let’s look forward.

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What is a submittal in construction? A comprehensive guide

Lets Build

Construction projects involve multiple experts, like architects, consultants, electricians, and compliance professionals, working together to ensure successful outcomes. To that end, project managers and contractors must issue construction submittals to these experts for approval, review, or guidance.

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What is a submittal in construction? A comprehensive guide

Lets Build

Construction projects involve multiple experts, like architects, consultants, electricians, and compliance professionals, working together to ensure successful outcomes. To that end, project managers and contractors must issue construction submittals to these experts for approval, review, or guidance.

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What is a submittal in construction? A comprehensive guide

Lets Build

Construction projects involve multiple experts, like architects, consultants, electricians, and compliance professionals, working together to ensure successful outcomes. To that end, project managers and contractors must issue construction submittals to these experts for approval, review, or guidance.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Management, 6(3), 159-168. International Journal of Project Management, 25(4), 386-393. Project: Empirical Evidence of Collaborative Problem-Solving Benefits. Management Institute. Construction Management and Economics, 28(3), 301-310. Journal of Project Management, 22(3), 253-263. Brennan, R.