Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The fundamental requirements for achieving adequate cost management with respect to physical infrastructure sustainment and new construction are shown below. Physical Infrastructure Management – Requisite Tools. Tools and services to accomplish the goal are readily available.

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 23, 2024

The civil sector will confront a shifting regulatory landscape, burgeoning digitalization and evolving procurement norms this year.

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Infrastructure Procurement 167

Construction Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Construction procurement is the process of acquiring goods, services, and labor needed for the construction of a building, infrastructure, or other type of project. Various methods of procurement can be used, each with its advantages and disadvantages.

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Procurement Construction Bidding Infrastructure 105

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 10, 2023

BIM , Building Information Modeling, is the digitalization and 3D rendering of buildings or other forms of physical infrastructure. LEAN Construction and BIM are not the same. It’s really that simple. Learn more? contact-form] The post FACT CHECK: LEAN Construction and BIM are not the same appeared first on 4BT.

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BIM Procurement Construction Renovating 264

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 7, 2017

Define Construction Procurement. Define Construction Procurement… It’s easy to define construction procurement right? Improper construction procurement methods and a relative lack of competency on the part of procurement staff have greatly contributed to poor construction outcomes. Perhaps not.

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Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

LEAN Job Order Contracting – LEAN Job Order Contracting is the process of integrating planning, procurement, and project delivery for physical infrastructure repair, renovation, maintenance, or new builds, across disparate internal and external teams, within a common data environment (CDE) to consistently enable quality, on time and on budget (..)

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Contract Procurement Renovating Budgeting 259

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

While most of us are aware of the rampant economic and environmental waste associated with the repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction of buildings and other physical infrastructure, few understand that solutions are readily available or have the will and commitment to deploy them.

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Sustainability Management Renovating Procurement 245

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 11, 2022

JOC is both a procurement mechanism and a project delivery method. When designed and managed properly, JOC integrates planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and teams under a consistent programmatic workflow. Do I need to procure a set of technical specifications from a JOC products and services provider?

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Contract Procurement Estimating Renovating 263

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 1, 2022

Make critical physical infrastructure improvements that. Creating an efficient FM ecosystem is critical to fostering owner and design/builder alignment. benefit generations to come. Adopt a robust enterprise strategy.

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Design CSI Procurement Organization 260

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 30, 2023

As noted by Deming, 85% of all failures are due to management and lack of process versus those doing the work! 1998, Krafcik, The Triumph of the Lean Production System The post Technology will NOT SOLVE Construction Productivity Woes. appeared first on 4BT.

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Products Construction Procurement Management 253

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There is overwhelming statistical significance and audit reporting that the cost estimates used to for physical infrastructure decision-making are highly and systematically misleading. ACFs are not a defensible method for adjusting for location-based and time-based variances in construction costs.

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Estimating Defense Procurement Budgeting 240

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Proactive lifecycle management of planning, procurement, and project delivery internal and external teams, process, information, and enabling technologies would significantly reduce the level of traditional financial losses and legal conflicts and improve overall community and environmental impacts.

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Project Management Management Procurement Construction 246

Construction Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Treasury has released a working paper on the governments proposed 10-year Infrastructure Strategy that it says sits at the heart of its growth mission. It is intended to end the uncertainty over what work to expect from government that has dogged infrastructure suppliers for about as long as any of them can remember.

Infrastructure 40

Infrastructure Plans Housing Procurement 40

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

1 Job Order Contracting (JOC) is suitable for a wide range of facilities and horizonal physical infrastructure construction projects, including repairs, renovations, maintenance, sustainment, and new construction. Note: New construction is best limited to “minor” new construction requiring minimal design.). #2

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Contract Procurement Renovating Budgeting 263

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 21, 2022

There is overwhelming statistical significance and audit reporting that the cost estimates used to for physical infrastructure decision-making are highly and systematically misleading. 2018, Correlation between cost growth and procurement methods on USACE construction projects. The result is the misuse of billions of dollars.

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Estimating Construction Procurement Budgeting 263

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Rampant economic and environmental waste remains the norm regarding lifecycle management of public sector physical infrastructure. Adoption of systems thinking and a fundamental change from current planning, procurement, and project delivery practices. Sustainable public sector facilities management is long overdue.

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Sustainability Management Procurement Renovating 242

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 29, 2020

Detailed line item construction cost estimating is a prerequisite to obtaining best value outcomes for facilities / built infrastructure repair, renovation maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects. see LEAN construction guide ). see LEAN construction guide ).

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Estimating Procurement Life Cycle Construction 191

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Job order contracting is program-based LEAN, integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery method. A JOC Program can handle a wide range of facilities and/or infrastructure repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, or new build requirements. JOC is not a project, it is a program.

Procurement 165

Procurement Employment Environment Regulation 165

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 7, 2022

The public sector could easily save 30%-40% of its budgets in this area with the basic implementation of robust, integrate planning, procurement, and project delivery methods. Adopt and implement robust LEAN, integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes. Path to Improvement. Measure productivity.

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Management Construction Procurement Renovating 246

Job Order Contracting

JULY 1, 2019

Any real property owner can develop and deploy a robust Framework for Integrated Facilities Planning, Procurement, and LEAN Project Delivery. People, Process, Information, and Technology are central components to optimally planning, planning, funding, maintaining, and managing facilities and other forms of physical infrastructure.

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Procurement Plans Management CSI 100

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Construction cost knowledge management is a component of integrated LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. Traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methods have failed. It is required in order to consistently achieve best value repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build outcomes.

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Management Construction Procurement Defense 264

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 10, 2023

Any real property owner with requisite leadership skills and the commitment to fundamental process change can mitigate the excessive financial and environmental waste endemic to the repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction of buildings and other forms of physical infrastructure. Reach out if you are ready for a change.

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Project Management Management Construction BIM 264

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Improving facilities and maintenance outcomes begins with a strategic review of objectives and alignment with integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes. They, when combined with integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes are the proven pathway to best value outcomes.

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Procurement Resource Organization Plans 165

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Collaborative construction cost estimating provides guidance to organizations seeking improved cost visibility and transparency for repair, renovation, maintains and new build projects as well as overall facilities and physical infrastructure management. In other words, robust, LEAN process takes precedence for all associated projects.

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Estimating Construction Procurement Environment 214

Construction Law

JULY 12, 2024

Water regulator Ofwat proposes cuts to water company’s infrastructure investment plans over the next five years by some £16 billion, at the same time as announcing that new funding models will be used in procurement of what is still a giant programme of £88 billion.

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Procurement Infrastructure Accounting News 52

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 11, 2020

Integrated project delivery tools and support services are now available for the repair, alteration, modernization, rehabilitation, and minor new construction of infrastructure, buildings, structures, or other real property. via Four BT, LLC – www.4bt.us

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Renovating Procurement Budgeting Budget 200

Job Order Contracting

JULY 30, 2024

Robust FSRM activities are required to efficiently manage the lifecycle of a portfolio of facilities and associated physical infrastructure. PEOPLE Focus Significant change management is needed to shift from archaic and waste planning, procurement, and project delivery methods and practices.

Sustainability 243

Sustainability Procurement Plans Management 243

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Facilities and other physical infrastructure construction, repair, renovation, or maintenance cost management is impossible without the following basics. Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery internal and external teams, working with a collaborative framework with defined workflows and centralized communication.

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Management Construction Forecasting Organization 262

Construction Enquirer

JULY 5, 2023

Standards body BSI haslaunched a new whitepaper on how to minimise risks in infrastructure projects. Experts suggest that a better approach to scope development and managing risk and contractual change could save up to £25bn a year on projects. It includes case studies including of Whitechapel Station and Associated British Ports.

Infrastructure 82

Infrastructure Bidding Procurement Risk 82

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Best value facility and asset management can be achieved through the application of LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery methods. LEAN methods assure alignment of facilities/infrastructure needs with organizational objectives and provide an operational framework for best value planning, procurement, and project execution.

Life Cycle 173

Life Cycle Procurement Environment Risk 173

ENR Construction

MAY 1, 2022

Electronic bidding for infrastructure construction projects and general procurement is surging in popularity across the country.

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Procurement Bidding Infrastructure Construction 69

Construction Law

MARCH 14, 2025

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill has received a cautiously warm welcome to its proposals designed to speed up planning and reduce obstacles to delivering infrastructure. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Infrastructure Accounting News Site 40

Construction Law

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The inaugural meeting of the new British Infrastructure Taskforce was convened by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves today (18 October), bringing together major financial companies and government in a bid to increase business confidence in making UK infrastructure investments.

Infrastructure 40

Infrastructure Accounting News Bidding 40

Job Order Contracting

MAY 17, 2022

A locally researched, detailed unit price cost database and an associated LEAN, integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery process are both critical to reducing the carbon footprint of facilities and other built infrastructure. National averages and ‘ad hoc’ processes won’t work. Conclusion.

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Regulation Risk Equity Organization 264

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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.

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Aconex Aconex Remodeling Budgeting 244

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 24, 2021

An integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery solution that drives consistent on-time, on-budget, quality outcomes at a fair price. Best value management of the total cost of ownership for facilities and other physical infrastructure is best accomplished with implementation of robust programmatic methods.

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Renovating Life Cycle Visualization Environment 252

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Best value construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methods are readily available to virtually assure maximized environmental and economic returns on AEC, facilities management, and other physical infrastructure repair, renovation, or new construction projects.

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Life Cycle Procurement Construction Documentation 127