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Facilities Management – 2017 Best Practices

Job Order Contracting

The following white paper additional insight. While Shakespeare was a great playwright, he has little to contribute to improving renovation, repair, and new construction outcomes. Renovation, repair, new construction, operation and ongoing maintenance require collaboration and financial transparency. The Path Forward.

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Why BIM is failing.

Building Information Management

3D visualization is not BIM. Over twenty years ago, innovative construction delivery methods such as JOB ORDER CONTRACTING (JOC), a form of INTEGRATED PROJECT DELIVERY (IPD) came into being and have been practiced successfully for decades. JOC White Paper – A Primer for Job Order Contracting. Bennett, J.

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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

Even today, many view BIM as 3D visualization, vs. life-cycle building management supported by technology! Drastic culture and process are the requirements for mitigating waste within the AECOO sector. The AECOO sector can’t even begin a discussion about achieving higher levels of interoperability, exchanging BIM models and data, etc.,

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

Building Information Management

Project delivery methods set the tone and largely dictate the relative success of any facility construction, renovation, repair, or sustainability project. Project delivery methods must therefore be a component of BIM, a fact many/most 3D visualization software vendors appear to have ignored. A JOC contract is inherently.

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

Building Information Management

While accurate, timely, and transparent cost estimating is critical to the success of any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction project, most construction cost estimators (over 55%) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.

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Pulse: 08/20/2012

ENR Construction

White Papers. Bids/Contracts/Proposals. Future plans for the building entail renovations to the remaining floors to house similar GSU office and meeting space. The project entails renovating the 65,000-sq-ft existing building, and building a three-story, 51,500-sq-ft addition. Book Reviews. Information Technology.