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Alliance Job Order Contracting 2025

Job Order Contracting

While traditional JOC Programs use national average cost data and location factoring or pay “JOC Consultants” a percentage of total JOC construction volume, neither maximize the potential of Alliance Job Order Contracting. Alliance Job Order Contracting has multiple benefits over traditional JOC.

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Use This Maintenance Checklist for Your Compact Track Loader

Construction Business Owner

To ensure your machine is fully prepared for the start of the spring working season, consult your operation and maintenance manual for detailed service schedules and preventive maintenance tasks. Consider the following maintenance recommendations as you make sure your equipment is in top shape for a productive season ahead.

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Meet the New Cassell Consulting: Your Partner in Construction Technology

Cassell Construction Estimating

After more than 25 years of continued success providing our clients with Construction Technology Consulting Services, Cassell Consulting is expanding our capabilities to offer even more value to our Construction clientele. Workflow analysis, are you utilizing your current solutions to leverage your workflows and processes?

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Digital Dryshack # 68: Scheduling Best Practices

Cassell Construction Estimating

15 Tips for Best-Practices Scheduling. While discussing scheduling with a client in Hawaii recently, I found myself repeating over and over, a variation of “…scheduling best practices include…” Hearing these words repeatedly set me to thinking that I hadn’t recently seen scheduling guidelines set out in a concise, straightforward document.

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Job Order Contract Performance Measurement

Job Order Contracting

First and foremost, using consultants as project managers is problematic, as is paying a % of construction volume for “JOC consulting services” This approach, as highlighted in independent JOC audits sets a stage for mismanagement, waste, and potential fraud. 4bt.us – making JOC simple.

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Digital Dryshack # 93: GASP ! (10 Generally-Accepted-Scheduling-Practices)

Cassell Construction Estimating

Most of our work lately has been P6 training, and I find myself during that training to be referring often to Generally-Accepted-Scheduling-Practices. However, I don’t know if a written set of such practices exists – yet.

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Digital Dryshack #87: 10 Reasons D.O.D. Schedules get Rejected

Cassell Construction Estimating

firm providing scheduling training in Honolulu last week reminded me of the struggles most midsize contractors face when submitting an Initial Project Schedule (IPS) to NAVFAC or the Army Corps of Engineers. Rarely are the rigorous and demanding scheduling complexities included in D.O.D. Working with a G.C.

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