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A new risk landscape is reshaping owner-contractor relationships

Civil + Structural Engineer

Concerns around labor shortages, stagnation and recession, and the political climate all featured prominently among the biggest construction industry challenges in InEight’s recent Global Capital Projects Outlook survey. Soaring inflation and interest rates are increasing project costs and affecting capital project cost estimates.

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Productive Construction – Traits of Collaboration

Job Order Contracting

Based upon the above, why would anyone be surprised by the lack of productivity and rampant economic and environmental waste endemic to public sector facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds? Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery System Performance is CRITICAL to Improving Productivity. Baiden, B.

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The Business Side of Job Order Contacting, Integrated Project Delivery, and BIM

Building Information Management

Collaborative construction delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery, IPD, Job Order Contracting, JOC , and Public Private Partnerships ,PPP are fundamental requirements in resolving excessive and pervasive waste across the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations sector, AECO/AECOO.

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A Robust Framework for Improving Construction Productivity

Job Order Contracting

Any organization can consistently assure best value outcomes for facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds. The success of any repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build project is dependent upon early and ongoing collaboration among key parties. Integrated Project Delivery: A Working Definition (2nd ed.).

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Unlock Public Sector Construction Productivity – A White Paper

Job Order Contracting

It has done virtually nothing to measurably impact the repair, renovation, maintenance, and construction of the built environment. Robust tools and processes have existing for decades that can assure quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds are consistent delivered on-time and on-budget. Take BIM for example.

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What’s Really Needed to Make BIM Work.

Building Information Management

Building Information Management (that’s right forget the “modeling” distraction), BIM, is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. in order to define the scope, schedule, cost/budget (initial and life-cycle) budget, performance, value of a project or potential project.

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6 Industry Hacks to Overcome Productivity Pitfalls

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Now that we’ve laid the foundation for the four P’s of construction improvement (performance, predictability, planet, and people), let’s add some framework around performance. Particularly, the way performance impacts one of our most coveted metrics of measure—productivity. The end goal?