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Improving Public Sector Facilities Life-cycle Management – Hard Questions MUST be asked and ANSWERED!

Job Order Contracting

Improving public sector facilities life-cycle management is critical to the economy, the environment, and to our safety. What changes are necessary for improvements in repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build policy and practices are required? How can formal and professional education be improved?

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LEAN Asset Life-cycle Management – Achieve Optimal Construction Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

The path to improvement has been available for nearly 30 years… collaborative LEAN construction delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery, IPD (for major new construction) and Job Order Contracting, JOC (for renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction).

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OpenJOC (TM) LEAN Job Order Contracting Framework

Job Order Contracting

The OpenJOC Job Order Contracting Framework enables centralized management and consistent deployment of best value and compliant processes, methods, and technologies to drive optimal renovation, repair, and construction outcomes. Consider safety and compliance issues when prioritizing projects. viewed quite differently.

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The Collapse of American Buildings, Road, Dams….

Building Information Management

Facility management professionals must educate themselves, and adopt and deploy collaborative construction delivery methods. Yet despite this well documented fact, Owners allow major economic, environmental, and life/safety risks to continue to mount alarming rates. 61,000 U.S.

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School construction: Enhancing security through design

The Korte Company

This approach (and the broader principle of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design ) must be recognized as a key component of a school’s wide-ranging efforts to shield students from harm while still providing a positive educational environment. . Exterior elements of secure school construction.

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In Never Ends!

Building Information Management

Last I new, at least in the commercial, education, healthcare, and government sectors, 70%-80% of a building’s costs are attributable to ongoing renovation, repair, operations, etc. Virtual design has its place, but the real opportunity is to increase productivity, safety and quality while constructing in real time.

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In Never Ends!

Building Information Management

Last I new, at least in the commercial, education, healthcare, and government sectors, 70%-80% of a building’s costs are attributable to ongoing renovation, repair, operations, etc. Virtual design has its place, but the real opportunity is to increase productivity, safety and quality while constructing in real time.