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Controlling Construction Costs, Rocket Science, and Time Travel

Job Order Contracting

Validate Contractor and Subcontractor Quotes Obtaining comparative bids on all subcontracted work will not provide sufficient cost visibility. EVERY project can broken done into discrete elements called line item construction tasks. Both IPD and JOC have been proven for decades and are well evolved.

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Local Market Construction Cost Data

Job Order Contracting

Track multiple programs, contracts, projects, estimates/bids/proposals, issues/tasks, and workorders throughout their lifecycles. WBS – CSI Masterformat. Easy to navigate control center. Team management- Manage team member roles, workflows, documents, and cost data libraries. Controlled secure global access to all uploaded files.

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DD# 82: Cost Coding to Project Bid Items

Cassell Construction Estimating

Discussing job cost coding with some of our self-performing contractor clients, we sometimes hear that they often use the Owner’s Project Bid Items as a simple and useful structure for cost coding their work on the project. For GC’s, we recommend a modified CSI Masterformat structure. Barry Cassell.

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Improving Construction Project Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

From a historical perspective, traditional methods such as design-bid-build and others have failed. A detailed, locally researched, detailed line-item cost database, organized using CSI Masterformat , provides cost and technical visibility and transparency.

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Considering a Job Order Contract?

Job Order Contracting

All prequalified contractors invited to bid should submit sealed bids based on one or more adjustment factors / coefficients to the unit prices listed in the approved JOC unit price book (UPB). The approved JOC unit price book should be locally researched and organized using CSI Masterformat. no use of economic cost factors).

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Commercial Construction CSI – How to Uncover the Demons in Your Construction Site

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It was a case for the Englewood Construction CSI team. Englewood Construction's team is always ready to solve the latest construction CSI case. We were pulling a feeder cable through a Chicago retail construction project when we heard the explosion. Then, the transformer blew out. What the heck happened?

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LEAN Construction Cost Estimating

Job Order Contracting

Use a common data environment (CDE), specifically locally researched unit prices organized via CSI Masterformat. Replace traditional design-bid-build and design-build with integrated project delivery. Leverage document management, version control, access control, check-in/check-out, detailed change logging.