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Job Order Contracting LEAN Construction Technology

Job Order Contracting

4BT-CE provides many benefits to users and the user organizations as outlined below. If your are setting up a JOC Program, or wish to improve an existing Job Order Contract, the 4BT-CE OpenJOC Solution provides the open, best-value alternative. CSI Masterformat (TM) UPB format (50 Division) for data organization.

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BIM, Big Data, and Efficient Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

Building Information Management

Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment comes down to analyzing large data sets— big data—from several knowledge domains. 3D visualization software products currently promoted as BIM (Building Information Modeling) are not solutions for this task. Big Data for BIM / Efficient Facility Life-cycle Management.

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BIM Strategy – Technology is not the issue – 2014 – Building life-cycle management

Building Information Management

Forget 3D visualization, life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology, BIM, is all about people, process, and competency-centric technologies. If your organization is serious about BIM, here are some areas to consider! Life-cycle strategy vs. first-cost. Change management.

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Unit Price Books for Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

Here’s a quick tutorial about Unit Price Books, UPBs, for Job Order Contracting, and what you need to know. They also should be organized using CSI Masterformat. Look for a UPB that covers at least 90% of the tasks to be encountered using the associated Job Order Contract. JOC Players.

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Forget “BIM”, and Get on Board with BLM – Building / Built Environment Life-cycle Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. That said, BIM has been preoccupied with 3D visualization to the extent that many/most feel that Revit, Archicad, et al are all that’s needed to implement BIM. Organizations don’t deal well with change.

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BIM in Chains – Sustainability and Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment Stalled?

Building Information Management

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. I am “mad as hell” at how 3D visualization vendors have marketed BIM. Sure 3D visualization is a great tool, and a valuable component of BIM… but in itself, 3D visualization is NOT BIM.

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BIM Life-cycle Data is CRITICAL to Facility Management Economics

Building Information Management

BIM is not “rocket science”, but simply the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Putting the 3D visualization distraction aside, savvy Owners have been practicing BIM for decades. That is BIM. Roles, responsibilities, and deliverables must be spelled out.