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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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Planning Major and Minor Facilities / Asset Repair, Refurbishment, Maintenance, Renovation, and Construction

Job Order Contracting

How real property owners and facilities management professionals traditionally plan, procure, and deliver projects is the most significant barrier to improving capital reinvestment performance outcomes. The results are… Excessive maintenance costs. Gerschman and Schauder, 2006. Learn more about… Lean Construction.

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Best Value Construction Metrics

Building Information Management

Key areas monitored include the level of collaboration, timeline, costs and cost comparisons, specifications, satisfaction, and quality. Best value construction requires the integration of planning, procurement, and project delivery people, processes, information, and technology. Gerschman and Schauder, 2006.

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A Robust Framework for Improving Construction Productivity

Job Order Contracting

Integrating People, Process, Information, and Technology with a framework that combines and standardizes Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery maximizes early and ongoing communication and enables consistent best value outcomes for ALL participants and stakeholders. Collaborative Construction Environment. ConsensusDOCS. El Asmar, 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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Prototyping multi-store retail leads to substantial store returns

CCR Magazine

private-label products (leading private-label product share), many of which are produced by the same suppliers as the name-brand version, ALDI takes pride in offering top-quality merchandise at 20% to 40% less cost than comparable products at other grocery chains. Stocking their shelves with 77.5%

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History of Job Order Contracting – JOC, The LEAN Collaborative Construction Delivery Method

Building Information Management

Enhanced quality control. Lowered the contract administration costs. Reduced construction costs. 2006, IDIQ Contracts, Denise Farris | March 30, 2006 | Construction). West Point managed to accomplish the following: Minimized the response time for facility construction. Reduced the workload on in-house design staff.