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Managing Cash Flow During the Slow Season

Construction Business Owner

While weather can be an obvious culprit for midsized general contractors — particularly those in nonresidential construction such as commercial, road and highway, or heavy construction — a slow season can also be related to factors such as project life cycles, regional labor shortages, or a poorly quoted or scoped job.

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Life-cycle Costs for a Commercial Building

Job Order Contracting

Understanding facility life-cycle costs for a commercial building is the first step towards maximizing efficiency and positive outcomes. There are many components of life-cycle costs: First Costs – Planning, Selection, Acquisition, Construction. Facility Life-cycle Costs.

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Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management

Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management and improving AECOO outcomes for all participants and stakeholders. Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management enables the efficient use of available funds targeted for executing renovation, repair, maintenance, and minor new construction projects.

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LEAN Asset Life-cycle Management – Achieve Optimal Construction Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

Optimal construction outcomes such as 90%+ of project on-time and on-budget and 96% satisfaction levels are achieved daily, however, by less than 5% of all real property owners, contractors, architects and engineers. Life-safety, environmental, economic mismanagement are the norm versus the exception. The net result is 2.5%

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Public Sector Facilities Stewardship and Data-driven Decision Making

Job Order Contracting

The fundamental reason the assumptions most public sector professionals have are incorrect when it comes to life-cycle management of the built environment. Planning, procurement, and project delivery can be accomplished by disparate teams that lack integration through their respective life cycles.

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LEAN Construction Project Delivery enables efficient life-cycle management of the built environment

Job Order Contracting

LEAN Construction Project Delivery enables efficient life-cycle management of the built environment via a robust integration of process, actionable standardized and common information, supporting technology, and ongoing training. An example of LEAN Construction Project Delivery is OpenJOC ™ Job Order Contracting.

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Federal Public Sector Lacks efficient Facilities Planning, Design, Procurement, and Project Delivery capability

Job Order Contracting

The latter are fundamental to verifying contractor quotes and creating internal government estimates (IGEs).