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

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Improving public sector facilities life-cycle management is critical to the economy, the environment, and to our safety. How can we better leverage standardized information to improve outcomes? What is required to integrate internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams?

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Construction Equation: Knowledge Problems + Data Problems + Management Problems = Outcome Problems

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Lack of recognition by senior management of the linkage between between the built environment and organizational mission Low level of understanding of both life-cycle total-cost-of-ownership management and integrated lean planning, procurement, and project delivery principles and processes. Procurement of built assets.

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group Design veterans Steven Burke and Michael Swenson will lead the new sustainability initiative for Suffolk. Contractors Sustainability Sustainable Design and Construction Suffolk Construction, headquartered in Boston, has established the Suffolk Sustainability Group.

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Valid construction estimates

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Whether a repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, or new build project, certain fundamental processes and information are REQUIRED to create a valid construction estimate. Line-item estimating is the only method that provides a result that can be used for procuring a project of any size. 2 Detailed line item estimating.

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Building Trust & Connection are CRITICAL to improving Facilities Management Outcomes

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Repair, renovation, maintenance and new build planning, procurement, and project delivery professionals and associated processes operate independently. This is further complicated by the fact that service partners also generally operate in silos, each with its own goals and information environments.

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Fundamentals of Efficient Public Sector Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery

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The Fundamentals of Efficient Public Sector Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery are important to professionals hoping to meet their fiduciary responsibilities by maximizing the use of taxpayer funds. The importance of this information is non-trivial.

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Define Construction Procurement

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Define Construction Procurement. Define Construction Procurement… It’s easy to define construction procurement right? Improper construction procurement methods and a relative lack of competency on the part of procurement staff have greatly contributed to poor construction outcomes. Perhaps not.