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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. Procurement of built assets.

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

Job Order Contracting

Integrated internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams. Target and actual cost visibility and breakdown need major attention, mainly through the development of specific inter-organizational cost management system and granular, local market researched data. A template for implementing target costing”.

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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. The majority of BIM use remained in the design, procurement and planning stages and as such, only isolated current impacts on the CM were suggested. However, the theories behind the culture of BIM can be dated to 1975, when C.M

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

Organizations that do not implement and continuously import upon a program-based approach, under which all projects a planned, procured, and executed, suffer from unclear objectives , shifting requirements , unrealistic schedule s, and reactive planning , Poor planning and poor change management impede individual project successes.

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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. 2014cv0173-62-0.

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SmartWatt Energy Helps Albany Medical Center Save More Than $200,000 in Annual Energy Costs With Lighting Retrofit

U.S. Construction

Albany Medical Center, the only academic health sciences center in Eastern New York and Western New England is saving more than $200,000 per year in total utility costs after a lighting retrofit installed by SmartWatt Energy, a nationwide energy efficiency firm headquartered in Albany, NY. Albany, NY (PRWEB) February 21, 2012.

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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

Benefits of an OpenJOC Job Order Contract implementation include an expedited procurement process, and consistent completion of quality projects on-demand, on-time, and on-budget per owners/contractor expectations. Best value procurement. Owner technical and procurement staff is supplemented. The Origins of IDIQ and JOC.