Job Order Contracting

MAY 19, 2022

Optimizing Construction, Repair, Renovation, and New Build Outcomes requires a robust programmatic process that is consistently applied and continuously improved. A process is needed that integrates internal and external teams on an early and ongoing basis throughout the Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery phases and beyond.

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Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Mitigating Uncertainty in Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Builds is a proven way to reduce waste and consistently deliver quality outcomes on time and on budget. Current actionable information and integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery teams are required to mitigate uncertainty. CSI Masterfomat).

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Renovating Procurement Organization CSI 264

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 10, 2021

Construction Procurement Costs can be effectively managed within integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery environment. Often owners focuses only on initial purchase cost when they make decisions on repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build planning, design, procurement & construction. Introduction.

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

System thinking is a practical approach to facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction, offering consistent quality delivery on time and on budget. More specifically, system thinking, and the integration of collaborative internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams are fundamental requirements.

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Job Order Contracting

JUNE 19, 2020

A Guide to Construction Services Procurement would be incomplete without a discussion of collaborative LEAN construction planning and management methodology. The primary mistake that organizations make in procuring construction services in support of their facilities management needs is that they do not manage their providers.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 24, 2021

News Flash – Best value facilities repair, renovation work order delivery is now available to any real property owner. An integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery solution that drives consistent on-time, on-budget, quality outcomes at a fair price.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 3, 2020

Significant improvement across the AECOO sector (architecture, engineering, construction, operation, owner) requires an understanding of the critical parameters. Training and organization-wide communications in support of LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are mandatory in order to achieve continuous improvement.

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Procurement Plans Construction BIM 191

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Construction procurement and project delivery remains problematic for most organizations. Furthermore, for each team member involved in each stage of the process, whether planning, procurement, project delivery, or post-completion, there is a required level of shared information, mutual reliance, and minimum performance level.

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Procurement Construction Renovating Plans 165

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 5, 2023

Current Situation #1 Initial budgets for Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Builds are almost always exceeded. #2 2 Integrated and enabled internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams working towards mutually beneficial, clearly defined outcomes. #3 4 A robust, common process is NEVER employed. #5

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Environment Procurement Change Orders Renovating 240

Job Order Contracting

MAY 5, 2023

Construction cost management capabilities are critical to the success of any repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build activity. Questions every real property should ask before procuring a repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build service. #1 4 Is the cost estimate organized using a standard data architecture (i.e.

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Management Procurement Estimating Construction 262

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 12, 2022

LEAN Capital Project Delivery (LEAN CPD) creates a dynamic, collaborative environment in which repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds requirements can consistently be achieved in a quality manner, on-time, on-budget, and in full compliance. Significantly improve your traditional planning, procurement, and project delivery methods.

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Procurement Renovating Budget Budgeting 264

Job Order Contracting

JULY 22, 2020

Adaptive Lean Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery tools and services are readily available to assure the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction projects on-time and on-budget. Recognition and leverage of the expertise of those actually doing the work is the norm.

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Procurement Plans Construction Bidding 147

Job Order Contracting

MAY 28, 2024

The failure to use standard terms, definitions, and data architectures as well as objective local market data. Reliance upon traditional and flawed techniques of planning, procurement, and project delivery methods. What are the sources of most project cost overruns, delays, and overall dissatisfaction with outcomes?

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Estimating Construction CSI Procurement 243

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 25, 2021

There are major disadvantages of having a construction acquisition/procurement plan lacking granularity. With respect to construction, renovation, maintenance, sustainability or repair procurements, lacking granularity results in a lack of cost visibility and transparency and financial management inefficiencies.

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Procurement Plans CSI Construction 130

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build activities however have been notoriously ill managed. Owner and design-builder planning, procurement, and project delivery teams MUST work together within a common information environment and share clearly defined, mutually beneficial goals. SHARING OF KNOWLEDGE. NEXT STEPS.

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Procurement Construction Environment Renovating 263

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 18, 2023

The net result is an average economic waste factor of 30%-40%+ for every repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build. Quantifying decision-making. Learn more today!

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Procurement Renovating Estimating Architecture 263

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 23, 2022

The process is complex and involves significant deep and breadth of knowledge and capability, including cost research, cost engineering, data architecture and database expertise, and an understanding of repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction techniques, materials, and equipment. Construction Cost Data.

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Construction Procurement Change Orders Renovating 264

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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

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Procurement Plans Life Cycle Construction 140

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 7, 2025

Technical planning and professional procurement team collaboration and adherence to robust best management practices are needed to mitigate financial and environmental waste. Five primary questions to be answered are: 1. How was the estimate made? What assumptions were made? Typically used as a last-resort method. #5.

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Estimating Procurement Contract Overhead 147

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The ISO 50001-based energy management system is too little too late and fails to address the fundamental issue of rampant economic and environmental waste associated with facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new buildings. Key problems. #1 1 The program is self-paced. No timelines. #2 2 The program is no-cost.

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Management Renovating Organization Certification 256

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 6, 2020

Oddly, few real property owners create a detailed construction cost model for their renovation, repair, maintenance, or new build projects. A common data environment (CDE) is a requisite component of an efficient construction planning, procurement, and project delivery environment. INTRODUCTION. WHAT IS A MODEL? Learn more?

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Modeling Life Cycle Construction CSI 255

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The good news is that robust solutions are readily available to enable the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction projects on time and on budget. Efficiently planning projects, procuring projects, executing projects, and managing costs involve several fundamental elements.

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Management CSI Procurement Life Cycle 264

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 26, 2022

Here a list of the root causes of construction project variability resulting in 85% of ALL repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds being… late, over budget, unsatisfactory to one or more participants or stakeholders, or otherwise economically or environmentally wasteful. Poorly defined and poorly communicated Scope of Work.

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Construction Procurement Renovating Budget 263

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Efficient management of the numerous repair, renovation, and construction project facing real property owners requires changing how owner, architecture, engineer, and builder relationships are structured. The post Performance-based Procurement & Project Delivery for Facilities Repair, Renovation, and More!

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Procurement Renovating Life Cycle Risk 100

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

This includes pre-construction and planning phase activities including initial owner scope of work as well as all related planning, procurement, and project management processes. A construction cost audit and associated checklist are important risk management and LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery tools.

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Construction Procurement Documentation CSI 226

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A holistic view of facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction therefore involve consideration all factors and interactions impact the outcomes in terms of cost, quality, time, sustainability, community, and overall satisfaction of all participants and stakeholders. Why systems thinking?

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Sustainability Management Procurement Renovating 242

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 27, 2024

Use and share objective, granular, current, and locally researched line item data that is organized using a standard data architecture (for example, expanded CSI Masterformat). Work as part of an integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery team. Learn more abour reliable construction cost data.

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Estimating Construction Procurement CSI 246

Job Order Contracting

JULY 31, 2020

Proven Job Order Contracting Practices have evolved to enable the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction project on-time and on-budget. Tools and services are readily available to support collaborative construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. INTRODUCTION.

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Contract Procurement BIM Construction 222

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 7, 2017

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.

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Procurement Construction Life Cycle Contract 100

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Sustainable facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, of new construction is virtually impossible with both locally researched, current, and actionable construction in combination with a robust, integrated framework integrating internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery. Learn more?

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Procurement Construction BIM Change Orders 264

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 13, 2021

Volumes have been written about the excessive waste and low productivity of of the architecture, engineering, and construction sector. Unfortunately, most of the writing have not provided a solution.

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Construction Renovating Procurement Architecture 222

Job Order Contracting

JULY 3, 2020

4BT BiC is a Construction Common Data Environment Tool (CDE) for the efficient management of public sector facilities planning, procurement, and project delivery. An example of a critical CDE is a locally researched detailed unit price book (UPB) organized using the CSI Masterformat data architecture. Request free eBook: info@4bt.us

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Environment Procurement Construction CSI 179

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Collaborative construction cost estimating provides guidance to organizations seeking improved cost visibility and transparency for repair, renovation, maintains and new build projects as well as overall facilities and physical infrastructure management. In other words, robust, LEAN process takes precedence for all associated projects.

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Estimating Construction Procurement Environment 214

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While most real property owners, designers, and builders, are aware of the issues associated with Traditional Planning, Engineering, Procurement and Construction strategies such as Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, CM@R, etc. The following are requisite components of a best value approach to all forms of Alliance Contracting.

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Contract Procurement Innovation Renovating 244

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 3, 2021

Uniformat level and/or assembly level, or building level cost data is useful for budgeting purposes only, and should not be used for bidding, procurement, and execution actual projects with builders, construction managers, etc. Such databases should be used exclusively for basic reference only. Additional Considerations.

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Estimating Construction Procurement Renovating 239

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Volumes have been written about the fragmentation of the AECOO (architecture, engineering, construction, operator, owner) and Facilities Management sectors and their relative high levels of economic and environmental waste. Eliminating redundant costs and activities and 2. Aligning strategies and objectives with processes and workflows.

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Management Procurement Environment Life Cycle 264

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 13, 2023

ERP, CMMS, IWMS, even BIM have all FAILED to produce measurable improvement with respect to the ability to consistently deliver QUALITY repair, renovation, maintenance, or new builds ON TIME and ON BUDGET. Thiis is a fact that few software vendors want you to know. The only barrier is the will to do so. Prepare For the Disruption.

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