Lets Build

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Being able to define the major sources of risk in your projects can eventually pave the way for faster and cheaper delivery without having to compromise quality. That being said, coming up with an effective risk management framework across different projects is possible. How we could define risk in a construction project.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 21, 2019

Job order contracting is neither difficult to understand, nor costly to practice, yet is virtually it assures the consistent delivery of quality, on-time, on-budget repair, renovation, and new construction projects…if the JOC Program is designed, deployed, and managed correctly. What Is Job Order Contracting? How Does JOC Work?

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Contract Management Procurement Change Orders 130

Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Everything you need to know about construction quality and how to manage it. We’ll examine what is quality management, how construction quality is determined, what can stand in the way of quality programs, and what processes you can put in place to ensure the highest quality for any job. Quality is what separates the good from the bad.

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Management Construction Risk Documentation 97

Job Order Contracting

MAY 6, 2022

Shared profit and risk and jointly developed project goals and values are keystones for team alignment for any project. The ultimate benefit provided by integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery solution is significantly improved life-cycle total cost of ownership asset management. Team Selection. Journal of.

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Procurement Plans Construction Life Cycle 219

Job Order Contracting

JULY 29, 2021

Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders… possible? Design-Bid-Build. Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) delivery process with design, bidding, and construction in separate, sequential steps.

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Construction Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Commercial real estate development involves the process of acquiring, designing, constructing, and leasing or selling commercial properties such as office buildings, retail centers, and industrial parks. Design and Planning Phase The design and planning phase is essential to commercial real estate development.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Worries about legal liability have long dogged the sustainable building movement, but insurance expert Karen Erger (Locton Companies) and attorney Eric Singer (Ice Miller LLP) say sustainability lawsuits are caused by the same types of issues that have always prompted clients to sue AEC firms. read more. "The

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 21, 2019

Job order contracting is neither difficult to understand, nor costly to practice, yet is virtually assures the consistent delivery of quality, on-time, on-budget repair, renovation, and new construction projects…if designed, deployed, and managed correctly. Design work is typically minimal and the responsibility of the builder.

Contract 115

Contract Management Procurement Change Orders 115

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 12, 2018

A LEAN Facilities Management Roadmap can help any committed organization maximize value from its built environment. What is a LEAN Facilities Management Roadmap? A properly designed UPB, such as the 4BT OpenJOC(TM) Unit Price Book , use common terms and definitions in plain English that all parties can easily understand.

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Management Organization Environment Plans 100

Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

And these questions are not unfounded because as of November 1, 2020, legal industry databases of state and federal litigation are tracking more than 6,100 cases involving Covid-19 claims. courts have never addressed a pandemic like SARS-CoV-2 (the current designation for what had been the Novel Coronavirus 2019).

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Liability Legal Claims Insurance 293

FDR Safety

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Lastly, this blog does not intend to be the end all, but is designed to mentor by overviewing basic safety program organization and key concepts. Table 2 provides one example for determining the risk for each hazard. It is critical to remember the primary purpose of using Table 2 is to drive consistency between risk assessments.

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Risk Feasibility Safety Injury 156

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 7, 2022

Their teams and budgets are leaner, so every investment must be carefully considered—particularly when it comes to tools like construction management software. . Digital solutions have become “must” haves (vs “should” haves) for construction management over the last few years. What to Look for In Construction Management Software.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The rule is silent on ESG disclosures, including climate risk. Longstanding Federal law requires disclosure of “any material pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, to which a [public company] or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their property is subject.”

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Regulation Risk Materials Legal 177

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 20, 2023

Education, key performance indicators, common terms and definitions, collaborative construction delivery methods, and current, objective, local market granular cost data as well as supporting technology can to be leveraged to enable significant cost savings via signifincant improvements in cost visibility, cost management, and productivity.

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Estimating CSI Life Cycle Construction 217

Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

But regular readers of this blog will know that we believe any business claiming “zero” anything is indefensible, fraught with risk and likely to lead to litigation. a lot less than zero risk) as a level of exposure that would cause no more than 1 extra case of cancer in 100,000 people over a 70 year lifetime.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 24, 2019

Green Building Council is being applauded for the release last week of the new pilot credit intended “to reduce the risk that illegally sourced, harvested or traded wood products are used in building.”. Samples shall be accompanied by a map of the Forest Management Unit of origin. Wood that is not certified as managed is not illegal.

Design 120

Design Products Certification Legal 120

Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The inherent business-breaking risk can even lead many subcontractors to refrain from bidding on projects if a general contractor or an owner has a reputation for slow payments. That’s why I’m thrilled we announced Autodesk’s intent to acquire Payapps Limited , a leading global provider of construction payment management solutions.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 11, 2024

These technologies can also streamline the design review process and help teams produce more accurate estimates, thus "reducing budgets and timeline deviations by an estimated 10-20% and engineering hours by 10-30%." Solving Complex Design and Scheduling Challenges James Niyonkuru Bicamumpaka Sr. billion by 2032.

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Job Order Contracting

JUNE 13, 2019

The OpenJOC(TM) Solution virtually eliminates the slow, costly, error prone, inefficient practices associated with design-bid-build, lowest bidder, and other traditional construction delivery methods. Shared Risk/Reward. It embodies all of the fundamental aspects of LEAN construction, including: Collaboration. Long-term Relationships.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 23, 2020

Together these actions are already having a chilling effect not only on investment managers who want to profit from the use of ESG factors, but also on public companies that make ESG disclosures, when the rule provides clear regulatory guideposts for fiduciaries in light of recent trends involving ESG investing.

Risk 156

Risk Plans Security Massachusetts 156

Job Order Contracting

JULY 25, 2018

Early and ongoing collaboration with building owners, facilities management, procurement, and associated technical teams is the single most important element to driving improved outcomes and long-term, mutually beneficial outcomes. Change orders and legal disputes can virtually be eliminated. Time for you to get started?

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Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

At a broad level, the following Construction Delivery Methods are available to Owners… Traditional Delivery Method- Design-Bid-Build. Various Construction Management Delivery Methods. Design/Build Delivery. Design-Bid-Build. ? Owner first contracts Design Professional. Construction Management Approach . ?

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Bidding Construction Documentation Subcontracting 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This creates project management challenges because separate systems often require teams to transfer data manually and perform additional admin work. SharePoint makes creating, managing, and sharing files, data, news, and resources a breeze. . 2: Project Management. Let’s dig in! 1: Cloud Storage. Smartsheet .

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PSMJ Resources

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Good Project Management is Good Risk Management. Most risks are foreseeable and responsive to thoughtful project management. • Risk reduction by any means is usually superior to any management scheme. . • Risk reduction by any means is usually superior to any management scheme.

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Project Management Risk Resource Management 40

Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 3, 2015

In one post, he successfully distills and summarizes several effective strategies to reduce project risk and increase success probabilities, starting with a quote form the XL Risk Management Blog : Why do people make poor decisions when it comes to risk? risk management case: Jack Gibson’s twitter feed.

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News Legal North Carolina Raleigh 48

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 9, 2024

Watch what they have to say: AR and Drone's Impact on the Industry Kelly Barber Division Chief, Systems Management, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation "Some of the biggest construction trends and innovations that we are starting to explore are the use of AR and drones.

Construction 137

Construction Autodesk Industrial Sustainability 137

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 9, 2018

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.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Procurement Budgeting 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In the UK, the water industry announced its commitment to a carbon zero future by 2030, which is decades before the government’s legally binding target of 2050. We’re able to use the lessons learned captured throughout each CPMS milestone to predict risk.

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BIM Risk Environment Accounting 98

BD+C

AUGUST 28, 2023

Rebekah Schranck, AIA Contractors Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Architects Building Owners Construction Administration presents its fair share of challenges in the architectural industry, from managing clients' change of heart in the midst of construction to dealing with contractors that are reluctant to revise their work.

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Construction AIA Architecture Contractors 81

Building Information Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

BIM is the efficient full life cycle operation of the built environment, with the promise of managing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and associated physical and functional conditions in concert with an organization’s changing needs. Appropriate distribution of risk. So… back to the legal aspects of BIM.

Legal 40

Legal BIM Life Cycle Procurement 40

Building Information Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

BIM is the efficient full life cycle operation of the built environment, with the promise of managing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and associated physical and functional conditions in concert with an organization’s changing needs. Appropriate distribution of risk. So… back to the legal aspects of BIM.

Legal 40

Legal BIM Life Cycle Procurement 40

Viewpoint Construction Technology

APRIL 23, 2019

Moreover, once estimates are complete, contractors need an easy way to get the project in their construction management platform and get to work. A cloud-based, integrated construction management solution solves this by automating workflows and delivering powerful data and analysis tools in real time. Labor Challenges.

Construction 216

Construction Software Software Estimating 216

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 1, 2023

Nowhere is this truer than in construction, where rework plagues owners, managers, and trade contractors. It also is a productivity killer, stealing hours, days, and even months from projects. According to a report from Autodesk and FMI , miscommunication and poor project data account for 48% of all rework on US construction jobsites.

Construction 52

Construction BIM Estimating Documentation 52

Levelset

JUNE 3, 2022

Project loss insurance, or PLI, is designed to mitigate catastrophic construction project losses. It protects contractors and construction managers from unexpected increased costs in the performance of a construction contract. It also helps contractors manage cash flow during a loss. There is a high deductible and copay.

Insurance 52

Insurance Cash Flow Claims Contractors 52

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In fact, more often than not, a majority of poor outcomes stem from non-technical risks more often than from technical risks (think: political risks related to regulation and transparency). Or if contracts were designed to favour performance and alignment benchmarks? Design Standardisation. The solution?

Products 98

Products Industrial Procurement Project Management 98

Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 21, 2018

a comprehensive rating system that provides strategies and tools for resilient building and design, was approved last week and is being launched on Monday, November 12th. criteria include acute hazard preparation and adaptation strategies along with chronic risk mitigation at the building and neighborhood scale. The launch of RELi 2.0

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Guidelines Certification Green Defense 168

Green Building Law Update

JUNE 19, 2016

TSCA was enacted in 1976 to protect the environment and the public’s health against risks posed by chemicals in materials in commerce. The first step will consist of an EPA risk evaluation and a second step for risk management. The new law sets a 3 year deadline for all risk evaluations.

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Risk Regulation Materials United States 149