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Preparing Independent Government Estimates – IGEs , IGCEs

Job Order Contracting

The best source of information for “construction” IGEs is a locally researched detailed unit price book. Unfortunately, most Government agencies use “historical information”, “parametric modeling”, or national average cost data and associated construction cost indexes and/or area cost factors.

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With Inflation, How Can We Help Construction Costs Stay Down?

Fieldwire

Invest in Big Data “Big data” is an umbrella term for technology that gathers large amounts of data to help business leaders make more informed decisions. Building Information Modeling Building information modeling (BIM) can be your saving grace. While the cost of rework hovers around 2.4%–12.4%

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Building.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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Digital Builder Ep 15: Why Global Data Standards are the Future of Collaboration

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As the volume of project data continues to grow , and global collaboration in the AEC industry becomes increasingly common, it’s more important than ever that the processes we have are scalable and sustainable. . Information exchange . Security of information . Here’s a recap of the key takeaways from the episode. .

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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Educational and training programs must focus upon asset life-cycle management and modeling. Business aspects must shift from lowest-bidder and adversarial, inefficient design-bid-build delivery models to BEST VALUE, INTEGRATED COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY. What is average time to create an owner estimate?

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

a) Job Order Contracting (JOC) is an alternative contracting method to fulfill requirements for sustainment, restoration, and modernization (SRM) projects at installation level (post, camp or station), with an estimated value exceeding $2000 , but not exceeding the amount of SRM authority delegated to the installation by the ACOM and/or HQDA.

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