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LEAN Construction Project Delivery and Facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Life-cycle Management

Job Order Contracting

LEAN Practices Asset Competency Model. Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers. Cost Estimating, Procurement, & Construction Project Delivery and Management Systems.

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group

BD+C

The Sustainability Group will strengthen Suffolk’s in-house expertise and ability to design and execute a wider range of green building solutions. In design, Swenso collaborates closely with design teams to optimize strategies for cost effectiveness to meet operational carbon goals using life cycle costing.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

While there has been a fair amount written about Lean principles, actual application in the form of an integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methodology has been limited to 5% or less actual work. Development of a conceptual model of construction partnering. References: Abdelhamid, T. NY: Aspen Publishers.

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LEAN for Facilities Operation and Maintenance

Job Order Contracting

LEAN Practices Asset Competency Model. Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers. Building Information Modeling (BIM) (Model & Management Systems). Operations.

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Developing a Job Order Contracting Program

Building Information Management

The article also introduces the use of Performance Based Procurement System (PBPS) to set a “minimum performance” requirement and improving the performance of the JOC process. Reduced the workload on in-house design staff. Introduction. Thousands of dollars could be saved by delivering construction modifications sooner.

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Development of the Job Order Contracting (JOC) Process for the 21st Century

Building Information Management

The article also introduces the use of Performance Based Procurement System (PBPS) to set a “minimum performance” requirement and improving the performance of the JOC process. Reduced the workload on in-house design staff. Introduction. Thousands of dollars could be saved by delivering construction modifications sooner.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

HVACie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed to describe Heating, Cooling, Ventillating (and Refrigeration) systems. From a technical point of view HVACie is an extention of the IFC Coordination Model View Definition. . Model View Definition. March 2012.