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

Job Order Contracting

Without effective management processes it is impossible to consistently achieve best value outcomes, such as the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, or new construction projects on-time and on-time. The results are… Excessive maintenance costs. Gerschman and Schauder, 2006. Available Tools and Services.

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Kobelco and TRT: Hand in hand

Roads Online

TRT has a long-standing relationship with crane manufacturer Kobelco, with both companies sharing an appreciation for quality, sustainability and customer satisfaction. He adds that the Kobelco name represents quality and reliability. It’s got that Japanese workmanship quality in every unit. Images: TRT. As Hand explains.

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New Heating Units Offer Cost-Effective Comfort in Boston Apts

CCR Magazine

From their energy efficiency, quiet operation and low maintenance to the fact that they can be controlled individually for personalized comfort, electric heaters offer several benefits in apartment buildings,” explained Andrew Martin, Manager of Product Management with Marley Engineered Products®. The culprit?

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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. Gerschman and Schauder, 2006. Best value construction metrics involve continuous assessment of team performance and improvement. Baiden and Price, 2011. Thomsen, 2009.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Common data environment (glossary of terms and definitions, locally researched detailed unit price cost data). Lower project related cost growth. Projects completed at or under budgeted cost. Reduced project related cost growth per change order. Zero costs associated with disputes and claims. Shared boundaries.

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Prototyping multi-store retail leads to substantial store returns

CCR Magazine

Be it comfort, convenience, performance, energy, economy or efficiency, the goal of quality architecture is to improve the human experience of place and space in meaningful ways. White says that controlling facility improvements through the prototype affords ALDI immense efficiency in creating near-identical stores from market to market.

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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.