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Construction Equation: Knowledge Problems + Data Problems + Management Problems = Outcome Problems

Job Order Contracting

Lack of recognition by senior management of the linkage between between the built environment and organizational mission Low level of understanding of both life-cycle total-cost-of-ownership management and integrated lean planning, procurement, and project delivery principles and processes. engineering the whole life cycle costing process.

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LEAN Construction Framework – A Robust Solution fully supported by tools and services

Job Order Contracting

Cost estimating and budgeting a continuous process, accomplished through intimate collaboration between internal and external planning, procurement, and project team members using locally researched, granular (line item) market data organized using standard data. A template for implementing target costing”. designing to target cost”.

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Tight Envelope Air Sealing With Aerobarrier Drives Energy Efficiency and More

The Pro Builder

An Industry Leader In 2005, New Tradition made a commitment to meet or exceed the most stringent standards for energy efficiency. The ‘mom test’ translates into a home that is high quality and durable, costs less to live in, is comfortable, and has healthy indoor air quality.

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Current and Future Use of BIM – 2013 – UK

Building Information Management

QTO, and an exclusively enhanced 400,000 line itme RSMeans Cost database. Potential impacts to the CM range from increased efficiencies on site, to loss of project control and increased legislation. For example, the use of the BIM model to produce cost and time estimates has been identified as a paradigm shift (Gier 2008).

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VERIFI® In-transit Concrete Management Advances UK Concrete Barrier Projects

GCP Applied Technologies

In January 2005 the United Kingdom’s Highways Agency launched their Smart Motorway Projects, a commitment to replace all life-expired steel barrier systems with concrete on motorways with high traffic volumes, in order to increase safety throughout their road networks. Company: Extrudakerb . Introduction.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

Zero credible cost visibility and inability to enable cost management… another instance of Government attempt to compete with the private sector and lack of capable and continuous accountable leadership. DoD hasn’t achieved a clean audit since independent audits were initiated in 2017.

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Inbound Marketing in Construction – Webcast Summary

Construction Marketing

The term inbound marketing was coined by HubSpot’s Brian Halligan in 2005. Case studies and whitepapers support these efforts, while leveraging low cost publicity for Norix Furniture. Therefore, they used HubSpot’s Content Management tool to take control over their website and easily build numerous pages.