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Optimizing Construction Cost Estimating Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

Optimizing Construction Cost Estimating Outcomes requires experience, LEAN management practices, common data outcomes, metrics, and continuous improvement. Request our white paper to learn more about Optimizing Construction Cost Estimating Outcomes. Size of Typical Construction Cost Estimates & Unit Price Cost Books.

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What is a JOC Unit Price Book

Job Order Contracting

A JOC Unit Price Book is a fixed list of detailed construction tasks and associated pricing/costs that is used to estimate costs for individual JOC projects/job orders, associated with a JOC Program. on an general basis. The reason is that the OpenJOC UPB is locally research and does not include contractor overhead and profit.

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The Financial Case for High Performance Buildings: Why It Matters

Stok

In a white paper on The Financial Case for High Performance Buildings, set to be publicly available in September 2018, stok argues that the seemingly intangible occupant impacts of the built environment are quantifiable from a bottom line perspective. square foot annually in bottom line profit compared to conventional buildings.

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The digital black hole impacting the construction industry

Fieldwire

Labor efficiency is the basis of most tender estimates, as well as the yardstick by which performance is measured and monitored. This can help improve planning and overall profitability. Download the full white paper from Hilti about the lack of digitization in construction.

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Using Business Intelligence to Gain a Competitive Edge

Viewpoint Construction Technology

When profit margins are thin, it doesn’t take much to wipe out a project’s financial benefits. Insights from all this information could increase profit and productivity and reduce time, errors, and material waste. Insights from all this information could increase profit and productivity and reduce time, errors, and material waste.

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Construction Cost Estimating Software vs. Spreadsheets – State of the Nation 2012

Building Information Management

While accurate, timely, and transparent cost estimating is critical to the success of any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction project, most construction cost estimators (over 55%) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.

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Job Order Contracting – Lean Construction History

Job Order Contracting

The cost of a JOC project, also referred to as a Job Order (JO) or Task Order (TO) be determined by creating a detailed line item unit price estimate for the associated Statement of Work (SOW) provided by the Owner. The total of the estimate is then multiplied by a coefficient. via Four BT, LLC – WWW.4BT.US.

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