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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group Design veterans Steven Burke and Michael Swenson will lead the new sustainability initiative for Suffolk. Contractors Sustainability Sustainable Design and Construction Suffolk Construction, headquartered in Boston, has established the Suffolk Sustainability Group.

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Define Construction Procurement

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Define Construction Procurement. Define Construction Procurement… It’s easy to define construction procurement right? Improper construction procurement methods and a relative lack of competency on the part of procurement staff have greatly contributed to poor construction outcomes. Perhaps not.

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Higher Education and Managing Repair and Renovations Efficiently

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Keeping up with the growing backlog of facility renovation, repair, sustainability, and maintenance is a never ending challenge for colleges and universities. While the problem is not new, what must change rapidly is the level of competence of higher education facility management professionals so that impending disaster is avoided.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem It's going to take the efforts of government and the private sector to mitigate the climate-damaging problem of embodied carbon, says this building sustainability expert, Brent Trenga. Of that amount, $2.15

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Best Value Procurement and Construction – Job Order Contracting

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Defining best value procurement and construction is a critical step toward improving overall productivity with respect to facility renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and new builds. Owners need methods to evaluate contractors that offer best value for work to be accomplished.

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Collaboration in Construction – From “ad-hoc” to “best process”.

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Traditional construction procurement and construction delivery methods, as well as ‘ad hoc’ daily facility management operations are unreliable and costly. Education, Training, and Support for LEAN construction delivery methods. Construction Cost Data & Unit Price Books – Structured, Reliable, Best Value.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

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Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al., Supplier-contractor collaboration in the. Shared boundaries. 2004; Black et al.,