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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Planning, procurement, and project delivery is inefficient and disparate. Project cannot be expedited with a collaborative fast-track process; drawings and specs must be 100% complete to bid (though latter rarely occurs). Design changes can result in costly impacts to drawings or construction work in progress. Disadvantages.

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JOC TASK ORDER Process Overview – USACE

Job Order Contracting

Each stage in the JOC task order process is designed to assure collaboration on an early and ongoing basis, clearly communicate a detailed scope of work, and manage all aspects of construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. The government is responsible for developing the scope of work.

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Autodesk Build Powers Success for Tetris across an International Design and Build Business

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Its 820-strong team includes project managers, architects, interior designers, and construction managers, supported by procurement, health and safety, and administrative teams. We used email and other tools for drawings, RFIs, approvals and other issues. It now has offices in 33 cities across 13 countries.

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Public sector procurement: The rules are different (yet there are consistencies)

Construction Marketing Ideas

When the consultant team has already worked together, additional benefits involve internal communications, sharing of drawing/design standards and conventions, and ease of working together.

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Preconstruction Meeting: A Quick Guide to Success   

Autodesk Construction Cloud

This is a chance for everyone to get to know key stakeholders, breaking down siloes between procurement and legal, scheduling and management, and so forth. Review drawings and designs one final time At the start of the meeting, all drawings and designs should exist in a state of approval.

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Secrets of a structural engineer

BD+C

Scott Martin, PE, LEED AP, DBIA Building Team Contractors Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Engineers Facility Managers Architects Building Owners Recently, I was asked to present to a group of aspiring engineers at the Florida A&M-Florida State University College of Engineering.

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A Guide to Construction Takeoff Software   

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Plus, with real-time cloud-based document management, estimating teams can access the most up-to-date construction documents, drawings, and models at any given point in the takeoff process. They can then leverage that data for downstream procurement, self-perform, and production workflows.