- Not speaking the right language.
- Failure to quantify risk, opportunities, productivity, linkages of built environment to organization success/failure.
- First-cost vs. life-cycle cost approach.
- Inability to collaborate internally and externally with services providers, stakeholders.
- Lack of standardized terms, metrics, robust and proven business processes and metrics.
- Following the “traditional/safe” path, i.e. existing legacy technology and/or data project delivery methods (design-bid-build, design-build), vs. integrated project delivery and/or job order contracting).
- Failure to compare in-house and service provider material, equipment, and labor costs with standards such as RSMeans Cost Data.
- Reactionary vs. pro-active approach and methods.
- Failure to adopt agile and continuous improve approaches
- Lack of relevancy.
LEAN Construction Project Delivery Methods - Job Order Contracting, IPD, 5D BIM 