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Federal Construction Delivery – Time for LEAN

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Lean = Faster, Better, Cheaper, New Efficiencies, Teamwork, Time, Savings, Commitment, and Ownership. Lean streamlines supply chains and reliability in commitments to insure a continuous and predictable flow. ” – Alliance of Construction Excellence. Both are proven LEAN processes. Benefits include: 1.

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Demand For Efficient Life-Cycle Building Management Processes – BIM, JOC, IPD – FIATECH PRESENTATION – 2012

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Critical components of CONSTRUCTION PROJECT success include communication, collaboration, a defined mutually agreed upon operating relationship and an associated fully defined project scope of work… all of which are largely determined by the construction delivery method. Construction management is a process!

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Construction Cost Estimating Software vs. Spreadsheets – State of the Nation 2012

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While accurate, timely, and transparent cost estimating is critical to the success of any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction project, most construction cost estimators (over 55%) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.

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NIBS – Building Innovation 2012 – January 7th-11th, 2012, Washington, D.C.

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3: Building Innovation 2013 is the only place you’ll find the authentic event on federal construction: FEDCon® — The Annual Market Outlook on Federal Construction — where attendees will hear the most authoritative, up-to-date information on federal agency building and infrastructure budgets, construction forecasts and regulatory updates.

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Job Order Contracting – Integrated Project Delivery for Renovation, Repair, Sustainability, and Minor New Construction

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Job Order Contracting is a high performance delivery method that delivers superior quality, schedule, and cost results over other traditional design-bid-build. JOC is one of the few construction delivery methods to require joint “pre-construction”services by the Contractor and Owners. JOC alters the paradigm.

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BIM in Chains – Sustainability and Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment Stalled?

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The integration of several knowledge domains / competencies and technologies is required as well as the collaboration of all professionals and stakeholders. Behaviors across all AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner) professions, building users, and oversight groups must change. September 2012 - via www.4Clicks.com

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BIM Strategy for the Built Environment

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Implement ProjectsIntegrated Project Delivery (Job Order Contracting – JOC – renovation, repair, sustainability, minor new construction, IPD – new construction). Ongoing Management and Reassessment – Continuous Improvement / LEAN. Develop Implementation Plan.