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Living in a Materials World

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Effectively managing the materials on jobsites with modern software can have a significant impact on contractors bottom lines. Every built environment turns raw materials into polished projects. But along the way, those material costs can start to add up, especially if the materials aren’t procured and managed properly.

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Facilitating BEST VALUE OUTCOMES in the built asset industry through robust PROCESS and collaboration.

Job Order Contracting

Most real property owners, design-builders, and oversight groups say they are aware of this, yet rarely make decisions based upon this simple reality. Traditional design-bid-build or lowest bid. #2. 3 Integrating internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams. #4 Here what doesn’t work… #1.

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LEAN Job Order Contracting – What Public Sector Facilities Professionals Need to Know

Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting (JOC) has been distorted into a way to simply speed the procurement of repair, renovation, and new build construction, bypassing procurement rigors and doing little to assure mutually beneficial benefit to owners and design-builder or overall efficiency. Enhanced owner and design-builder capabilities.

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How to Complete Construction Months Faster

Wolgast Corporation

As I’ve gone through the benefits of Design-Build in a recent campaign to inform more business owners about their options, it’s important to discuss the time savings that result from this construction delivery process. Therefore, the bidding and selection process is much shorter in duration.

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How to survive and overcome inflation and rising construction costs

Lets Build

Other than increasing material prices, workforce shortages are a significant driving factor which is likely to keep construction inflation at higher-than-normal levels. Prioritise value over competition One mistake project owners and procurement teams often make is prioritising bidding price over value.

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MATERIALS FOR FORMWORK

The Constructor

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 About Jobs Connect Groups Forums Toolbar SMS Alerts RSS Feed Search The Constructor Subscribe by E-Mail to receive latest updates. It is easily cut to shape on site, and if handled and stored carefully, it can be used many times. Note the different thickness: A standard plywood thickness on site is 18mm.

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ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR DESIGN MIX CONCRETE

The Constructor

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 About Jobs Connect Groups Forums Toolbar SMS Alerts RSS Feed Search The Constructor Subscribe by E-Mail to receive latest updates. times the standard deviation; and 2) 0.80 times the characteristic strength ; and the average strength of all the samples is not less than the characteristic strength plus times the standard deviation.

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