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What Is a Change Order?

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What Is a Construction Change Order? According to some estimates, an average of 35% of projects experience at least one major change throughout the life of the project. As a contractor, change orders can leave you feeling like you’re trapped between a rock and a hard place. Key Takeaways.

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Commercial Construction Checklist for Retrofitting a Shopping Center in Today’s Climate

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Working with a commercial general contractor who can build in any of these disciplines will help you determine what can be saved, repaired, moved or redistributed from the existing infrastructure. And I know people don’t believe this, but the best Chicago contractors hate change orders.

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The FM Mismanagement Problem Defined

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Unless the fundamental root causes are addressed, there is little hope of for ending the endemic economic and environment waste associated with building and other forms of physical infrastructure. The latest stimulus package, like those before them, will not even address the issue. #1. The 5 Essential Components of a Data Strategy.”

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

Construction Change Order Best Management Practices. Definition of a construction change order: A construction change order is work that is added to or deleted from the originally agreed upon and contracted scope of work which alters the original contract amount and/or completion date. Change Order Impacts.

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Construction Cost Knowledge Management

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The ability to clearly define detailed line item tasks defining the desired scope of work is critical to mitigating errors and omissions, reducing the number of change orders, as well as achieving defensible cost visibility and transparency. The transfer of cost knowledge is essential at a granular, task level.

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What is JOC / Job Order Contracting?

Job Order Contracting

JOC, in this case is an acronym for Job Order Contracting JOC is a integrated planning, procurement, and construction delivery method that, depending upon applicable regulations/statues, can be used for repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction for facilities and/or horizontal physical infrastructure. JOC Benefits.

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Construction Cost Management is now Possible

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Let’s face facts, the baseline for current public sector cost management practices and experiences for facilities and other forms of physical infrastructure is quite poor. . Owners are far less knowledgeable of cost management and implications than builders, inclusive of assessing risk related to any changes or performance issues.