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Adopting a Program versus a Project Approach Improves Facilities Management and Construction Outcomes.

Job Order Contracting

Every other factor… collaboration, information environment, team members, quality, project delivery method, materials, equipment, environment… impacts time. This enable over 90% of all projects and work orders to be consistently delivered on-time and on-budget, and to the appropriate specifications.

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

Credible Cost Estimate Core Elements #1 Objectivity – The information used and those invovled in the creation of the construction cost estimate must be objective. The reliance on outdated information (more the three month old) can introduce significant error. Primary data sources should be used whenever possible.

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Construction is NOT complex…. People are. Successful Construction Project Delivery Requirements

Job Order Contracting

Successful Construction Project Delivery, whether repair, renovation, maintenance, or new builds, can only be consistently achieved with a primary focus upon People… then Process, Information, and enabling Technology. Who can offer change ideas (informally and formally)? Who assesses the impact of the proposed changes?

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JOC Contractor Evaluation

Job Order Contracting

JOC contractor evaluation is an ongoing process, begining with their response to a Job Order Contract Request for Propsals for design-builders and continuing throughout the life-cycle of the JOC Program. Projects are complete in a quality manner, per specfications, on time and on budget, without change orders.

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LEAN JOC – Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

LEAN JOC (Job Order Contracting) is a robust integrated project delivery process for repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and “minor” new construction. A LEAN JOC implementation integrates People, Process, Information, and collaborative Technology to consistently yield quality projects on-time and on-budget.

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LEAN Procurement via Collaborative Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

There are several core elements associated with LEAN Procurement via Collaborative Job Order Contracting for real property owners, construction contractors, and building users. All begin with the desired outcomes of the project life-cycle in the forefront. Defining and developing processes that support positive outcomes.

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A Step Closer to BIM? NIBS and AIA Working toward Centralized Building Information Resource

Building Information Management

Also, the “let’s keep the Owner in the dark” or the “let’s not work together”, and the “bid low and make it up in change orders” , or “let’s accept the lowest bid and hope for the best” approaches to ruin. Building Information Management Framework - BIMF.