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Collaboration Estimating Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) 
Building Information Management
AUGUST 6, 2013
Providing the opportunity for the kind of collaboration that the construction industry so badly needs… Design-Build has a spectrum, ranging from almost as dysfunctional … all the way to almost as collaborative as Integrated Project Delivery. Shifting Design-Build toward IPD.
Civil + Structural Engineer
OCTOBER 2, 2023
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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Civil + Structural Engineer
JANUARY 10, 2024
From oil and gas and renewable energy to water and transport, markets have continued to generate substantial demand for new infrastructure with the project backlog increasing in 2023. As we enter 2024, organizations will need to balance delivering on the substantial backlog of projects, while progressing toward full digital transformation.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
JANUARY 8, 2023
How IPD Benefits Teams and Improves Project Efficiency “There’s no ‘I’ in team… “….Be Despite the overused and often annoying references to teamwork we’ve all heard a million times, we hate to sound like a broken record, but teamwork is actually vital to the success of construction projects. What Is Integrated Project Delivery?
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 6, 2020
Ensuring COLLABORATION from Planning, through Procurement, through Project Delivery, and Beyond for repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction requires an integrated outcome-focused process. All of the tools are services are readily available for any real property owner to tailor IPD to their organization.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 4, 2020
Integrated project delivery software and support services are now available for facilities operations and maintenance as well as new construction. Clearly defined mutually beneficial outcomes are easily supported within a robust and integrated evironment. Defined common data environment. Key performance indicators.
Job Order Contracting
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Collaborative construction cost estimating provides guidance to organizations seeking improved cost visibility and transparency for repair, renovation, maintains and new build projects as well as overall facilities and physical infrastructure management. Workflows, forms, sign offs, etc.
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Autodesk Construction Cloud
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Collaboration is a cornerstone of the construction industry. Time and time again, we’ve seen that the most successful teams and projects are the ones with solid communication and collaboration practices. If you’re looking to improve collaboration within your teams, Autodesk University has what you need.
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Building Information Management
DECEMBER 6, 2014
I recently read a blog from a great colleague of mine about IPD for small construction projects. Due to the costs associated with setting up an IPD project one her readers wrote… “Our sticking point continues to be whether there is a “cut-off” to do IPD for projects of a certain size and budget.
Building Information Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Integrated design increasingly is recognized as a potential method to assure all performance criteria are considered and optimized in the design and construction of buildings. As indicated above, the participating disciplines must trust the validity of the information provided by other collaborators. – NIBS.
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 22, 2021
The consistent achievement of best value quality, cost, and schedule outcomes requires the strategic and tactical integration of planning, procurement, and project delivery in concert with the core organizational mission. Early and ongoing collaboration of all participants and stakeholders.
Building Information Management
MARCH 28, 2013
BIM requires some form of Integrated Project Delivery… Period. Efficient project delivery methods such as IPD and Job Order Contracting (JOC) are integral components of efficiently managing the built environment over time. Why you say?
Building Information Management
AUGUST 20, 2012
The problem with the AIA approach to IPD is it is inherently anti-architect. It explicitly reduces the traditional influence of architects at early stages of a project when the design is being developed. I recently read the following Linked-in comment: . “
Building Information Management
AUGUST 6, 2012
Next generation cloud-computing and knowledge-based solutions will enable new levels of innovation, productivity, collaboration, transparency, competition, and growth. Collaboration. Collaborative construction delivery methods set the tone of any construction project and directly impact overall success.
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Powerful, yet easy-to-use services and tools that support efficient project delivery, including LEAN job order contracting that simplify administrative and operational processes, and drive best value repair, renovation, and new construction outcomes. Improve project planning by avoiding, minimizing, or eliminating miscommunications.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
The construction industry uses different kinds of agreements depending on the project’s scope, delivery, schedule, budget, and the parties involved. Knowing which contract to use when is critical to ensuring a successful outcome in delivery, customer satisfaction, and profit. integrated project delivery contract.
Building Information Management
MAY 29, 2012
BIM Collaboration – Fact or Fiction. As members of the AECOO 1 Community and stewards of the build environment, it is our obligation to collaboratively address our industry-specific productivity and business process issues as well as the our lack of significant progress relative to addressing environmental impacts.
Building Information Management
MAY 15, 2012
Construction cost estimating, and facility life-cycle cost estimating are critical components of any facility design, project delivery, repair, renovation, sustainability, or planning function. Here’s a list of BIM Construction Cost Estimating Requirements: 1.
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 9, 2012
As such it is a process of collaboration, continuous improvement, transparency, and integration. Ad-hoc business practices, traditional construction delivery methods, and legacy software must be cast aside. IPD, Job Order Contracting/JOC).
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 14, 2017
An integrated project delivery method is arguably required in order to achieve desired quality, satisfaction, timing, and cost for over 90% of renovation, repair, or new construction projects executed. Integrated project delivery method. An Example… CDE and LEAN JOC Construction Delivery.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
Alternative Construction Delivery Methods (ACDM) is a term commonly applied to business processes beyond traditional design-bid-build – DBB. Forms of alternative construction delivery methods include: Integrated Project Delivery – IPD: Typically reserved for major new construction.
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 29, 2024
Job Order Contracting was created several decades ago as a means to help get projects started quickly. Since that time JOC has evolved into an integrated project delivery (IPD) method that not only accelerates procurement, but also shorten project delivery times and reduces costs up to 30%-40%.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner (AECOO) sector must engage in collaborative construction delivery methods in over achieve any measurable performance improvement in the life-cycle management of the built environment. Move away from ad-hoc, antagonistic construction delivery methods.
Building Information Management
MAY 23, 2012
Professional construction cost estimators are critical to any collaborative, transparent, and productive BIM solution. Owners, AEs, Contractors, Sub-Contractors, Oversight Groups, Business Product Manufacturers- BPMs, and the Community will all gain higher visibility into life-cycle needs and impacts of the built environment.
Building Information Management
MARCH 21, 2012
Accurate construction estimates are a fundamental component of any successful construction project. The more accurate the scope of a construction project, the more accurate the estimate. 4Clicks.com – premier software for efficient project delivery – JOC, SABER, IPD, SATOC, MATOC, MACC, IDIQ, POCA, BOA.
Building Information Management
APRIL 10, 2012
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!
Building Information Management
APRIL 24, 2012
Powerful cost estimating software, integrated with visual estimating, contract management, project management, and document management is the new standard. Powerful cost estimating software, integrated with visual estimating, contract management, project management, and document management is the new standard.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 30, 2021
The root cause causes behind poor outcomes, even more so than technical factor, is lack of competent teams working collaboratively toward mutually beneficial goals. Individual projects WILL NOT consistently achieve bst value outcomes unless they are conducted within an overall programmatic environment! Rewire the contractual framework.
Building Information Management
AUGUST 20, 2012
The problem with the AIA approach to IPD is it is inherently anti-architect. It explicitly reduces the traditional influence of architects at early stages of a project when the design is being developed. I recently read the following Linked-in comment: . “
Building Information Management
JULY 25, 2014
Demand for higher productivity in the construction sector and environmental sustainability is reaching a critical level and causing significant changes in both construction cost estimating and the AEC industry as a whole. Emphasis upon estimate and project sharing, collaboration, and reuse (vs. eTakeoff /BIM/QTO).
Building Information Management
JUNE 13, 2013
It’s the integration of Cloud Computing, BIM, and Efficient Collaborative Construction Delivery Methods (IPD, JOC, PPP…) that will improve productivity in the AECO sector. Project Delivery Methods of the Future.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
How can multiple cost estimators share information on a project, or communicate with Owners, Contractors, AE’s, Subs, etc… if they aren’t speaking the same language? 4Clicks.com – premier software for cost estimating and efficient project delivery – JOC, SABER, IPD, SATOC, MATOC, MACC, POCA, BOA, IDIQ.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
It’s simple, collaboration and improved “cradle to cradle” facility life-cycle management approaches will be required for survival. 4Clicks.com – premier software for cost estimating and efficient project delivery – JOC, SABER, IPD, SATOC, MATOC, IDIQ, POCA, MACC, BOA …
Building Information Management
APRIL 8, 2013
As they pass the emergent stage, BIM and cloud computing will continue to impact project delivery. Emergent disruptive technologies and construction delivery methods are altering both the culture and day-to-day practices of the construction, renovation, repair, and sustainability of the built environment.
Building Information Management
AUGUST 29, 2012
.” While BIM can be applied to any situation, the focus of this discussion is upon – multi-facility portfolios, with extensive capital reinvestment, renovation, repair, maintenance, and sustainability requirements/projects. Spreadsheets are single user and non-collaborative, have no concept of hierarchy, nor full audit capability.
Job Order Contracting
APRIL 1, 2019
LEAN Construction Cost Estimating Drives Optimal Performance. Eighty percent (80%) of all construction projects are late, over-budget, or incorrectly completed. These are not LEAN construction delivery methods. Both maintain a program versus project orientation. Global oversight and leadership with local empowerment.
Building Information Management
MAY 16, 2013
As such, the core requirements of BIM include collaboration, standardized information, multiple domain competencies, and several supporting interoperable technologies. Building Information Modeling, BIM, is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Let’s face it, BIM continues to languish.
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 21, 2020
Value-based construction planning, procurement, and project delivery can consistently enable quality projects, on-time and on-budget. This optimal outcomes is possible via the appropriate and consistent integration of people, process, information, and technology.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 4, 2022
Software is only useful if it is based upon a robust strategy, supported by robust processes and workflows that maximize leverage of internal and external resources via collaboration and common mutually beneficial goals. Two of these solutions are Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Job Order Contracting (JOC).
Building Information Management
JUNE 27, 2013
Construction delivery methods are at the center of this ongoing transformation as they dictate the structure, tone, and legal requirements of any project. While collaborative construction delivery methods have been in existence for decades and are well proven, they are only recently being more readily adopted.
Building Information Management
JANUARY 17, 2012
The availability and integration of secure technology to promote collaboration and. All of these are common within all phases of construction, repair, renovation, or sustainability projects. Tools and services to test, deploy, host, and maintain applications are provided within one integrated development environment.
Building Information Management
JULY 16, 2014
most notably with their SABER construction delivery structure. An understanding of life-cycle management of the built environment from a collaborative, best-practices, process perspective as well as associated supporting technologies. This aspect is also critical to improved strategic and tactical decision support mechanisms.
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 16, 2012
Currently, the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment is being retarded by several factors: Existence of data silos; Organizational/professional cultures; Reliance archaic construction delivery methods (design-build-build, vs. IPD, JOC), and. Poor life-cycle management knowledge transfer.
Building Information Management
AUGUST 12, 2014
4Clicks Solutions, LLC is currently beta testing Ceasel, a next generation cloud computing application to enable collaborative construction cost estimating and associated efficient project delivery. Collaboration True cloud computing (vs. Collaboration True cloud computing (vs.
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