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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

A credible construction cost estimate is required prior to engaging in procurement. Typical construction project stake holders include: Owners (management, engineering, contracting/procurement, building users), Contractors, Subcontractors, and Designers/Architects. Primary data sources should be used whenever possible.

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School Districts can Learn from LEAN Construction

Job Order Contracting

When compared to the industry norm of 75% of all construction projects being over budget, delayed, or resulting in legal disputes. Properly designed and implemented JOC Programs can optimize school operations budgets and construction bonds, resulting in more dollars spent on actual construction versus procurement costs and waste.

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Job Order Contracting Done Right! Open, Best Value, Efficient

Job Order Contracting

OpenJOC uses common, standardized terms, definitions, and data architectures (CSI Masterformat licensee) to minimize cross discipline data gaps and errors and to improve collaboration. Proven collaborative LEAN Collaborative construction delivery best management practices, Standardized terms, definition, and data architectures.

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LEAN Facilities Management Roadmap

Job Order Contracting

A LEAN Facilities Management Roadmap (LeanFMR) is document that outlines the plan to achieve short and long-term goals for facilities leveraging total cost-of-ownership life-cycle asset management and LEAN construction delivery methods. Procurement. What is a LEAN Facilities Management Roadmap? Senior management. Operations.

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Built Environment Life-Management, BIM, LEAN, and Efficient Project Delivery

Building Information Management

Life-cycle Management 101. BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. As such it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle from inception onwards.

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JOC – Job Order Contracting – Improving Productivity for Facility Renovation, Repair, Sustainability, and Construction

Building Information Management

Improvements of 20-25%+ on the procurement side, virtual elimination of legal disputes, and significant reduction of change orders are just a few of the benefits provided by IPD and JOC. Common terms and definitions / ontology. They write sign the contracts and write the checks. Shared risk/reward.

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Construction Specifications

Construction Cost Estimating

A specification (often abbreviated as spec) can be termed as a type of a technical standard to be referenced by a contract or procurement document. It consists of 50 Divisions, to be applied for integrating facility life cycle and maintenance information into the building knowledge base.

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