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Construction Cost Knowledge Management

Job Order Contracting

Construction cost knowledge management is a component of integrated LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. Information must be presented in plain English, using industry standard terms and definitions, and organized in a standard data format (CSI Masterformat). has proven relatively fruitless.

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Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management

Job Order Contracting

Common data environment (CSI Uniformat, MasterFormat, shared terms, definitions in plain English, etc.). Best value procurement. Financial transparency (locally researched, defensible shared unit price cost books from independent and objective sources ). C o llect defensible data and c o nsi d e r other alternatives.

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Public Sector Real Property Management – Quality Construction Cost Estimating – Earned Value Management

Building Information Management

Typical construction project stake holders include: Owners (management, engineering, contracting/procurement, building users), Contractors, Subcontractors, and Designers/Architects. One goal was to eventually facilitate building information modeling to contain project specifications. Standardized Cost Data.

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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

This article contains a strong, generic model specification in standard CSI format for FRTW that will help specifiers: • Identify the critical code requirements for FRTW; and. • The following sections correspond to those used in the model FRTW specification. Related materials. A strong, generic specification for FRTW.