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Collaboration Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Procurement 
Job Order Contracting
MAY 6, 2022
Consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects on time and on budget is possible using an integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery solution. contact-form] Learn more about… Choosing IPD & Lean. Collaboration. Team Selection.
Granger Construction
MAY 14, 2024
Granger Construction celebrates 65 years of collaborative project delivery with the Ottawa County Family Justice Center project in West Olive, MI. The project team achieved unparalleled success for the project and its stakeholders, including budget reliability and enhanced efficiencies.
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Job Order Contracting
MAY 18, 2022
The above provides a foundation to allow a real property owner and their design-builders to efficiently manage their ongoing repair, renovation, sustainability, maintenance, and new build projects. 4bt.us – Integrated LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery solutions. contact-form] www.4bt.us
Job Order Contracting
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
A critical component of Integrated Project Delivery is objective, verifiable, granular local market cost data and and associated and an associated detailed scope of work (SOW) fully communicated with and agreed to by all participants and stakeholders.
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. What an organization has done in the past should not be the determining factor for what is possible. Learn more?
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 17, 2020
The path to LEAN construction planning, procurement, and integrated project delivery, IPD… 1. Leverage early and ongoing input and collaboration among all parties, especially those doing the actual work. Integrate processes into well defined workflows. Strategy and process before technology.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 19, 2022
Productive construction and collaboration go hand in hand. The traits of collaboration include: co-location. Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery System Performance is CRITICAL to Improving Productivity. Integrated Project Delivery: A Working Definition (2nd ed.). commitment. Learn more?
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
MARCH 18, 2020
There are multiple types of construction delivery methods that strive to achieve superior outcomes to traditional design-bid-build, design-build, CM@R, etc. These including alliance contracting/project alliancing, LEAN construction, integrated project delivery, LEAN job order contracting.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 27, 2020
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. In fact, less than 20% of all projects are delivered on-time and on-budget, or per stakeholder requirements.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 8, 2023
Leveraging JOC as a SYSTEM not simply a Procurement Tool provides significantly greater benefits while also reducing costs. Many, if not most, current Job Order Contracting Programs simply use JOC to speed the procurement of repair, renovation, maintenance, or new construction activities.
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.
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.
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
JANUARY 28, 2020
This abstract provides initial insight into Collaborative Construction Performance, Enablers, & Requirements. Maximizing benefits required collaboration planing, procurement, and project delivery. LEAN Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery Tools and Services.
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.
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. Collaboration. Collaborative construction delivery methods set the tone of any construction project and directly impact overall success.
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Construction cost knowledge management is a component of integrated LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. Traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methods have failed. has proven relatively fruitless. Embrace available tools and methods.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 7, 2023
Alliance Contracting in Construction provides a real opportunity for the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build project on time and on budget. Alliance participants commit to work together to achieve the successful delivery of the project throughout the duration of the contract.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 19, 2020
A Guide to Construction Services Procurement would be incomplete without a discussion of collaborative LEAN construction planning and management methodology. The primary mistake that organizations make in procuring construction services in support of their facilities management needs is that they do not manage their providers.
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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. In other words, robust, LEAN process takes precedence for all associated projects.
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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).
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 25, 2023
Move all repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects forward with proactive, informed decisions. Owners & Developers – Planners – Designers – Procurement Professionals – Builders Collaborate with internal and external teams to detail Scope of Work and validate local market construction costs.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 19, 2024
Lean construction aims to embody the benefits of the Master Builder concept, as does Advanced Job Order Contracting, Integrated Project Delivery, and Alliance Partnering. This role encompasses all aspects of planning, architecture, engineering, and building, integrating both creative and technical responsibilities.
Job Order Contracting
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Managing change orders for any size of repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build project, whether IPD, alliance job order contracting, DB, DBB, ‘et al’, simply requires a robust preconstruction process in most instances. ensuring project continuity and success. ensuring project continuity and success.
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 29, 2024
Job Order Contracting was created several decades ago as a means to help get projects started quickly. It was simply a way to speed procurement. Collaborative focus upon long term mutually beneficial outcomes for all participants and stakeholders. Mandatory initial and ongoing training for all participants. Learn more.
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
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
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
The early and ongoing integration of People, Process, Information, and Technology can drive optimal repair, renovation, and new construction outcomes. LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery can consistently drive significant improvement over traditional methods.
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
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.
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
The current environment of autonomous units focusing on their own interests and incentives simply generates conflict and disputes and 80%+ of all projects being late, overbudget, or poorly completed, rather than collaboration and coordination which has proven to consistently deliver positive outcomes for all project participants.
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
While alliance contracting is typically a term applied in the Australia and the UK to a model applied to large complex projects, its core aspects have been in place for both Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for major projects, and LEAN, Open Job Order Contracting for years, if not decades.
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
JULY 30, 2012
More specifically, it is the endemic lack of collaboration, communication, and long term relationships built upon performance and trust are the fundamental cracks in the foundation of the AECO (architecture, engineering, construction., However, both JOC and IPD have failed to become mainstream. operations) sector. operations) sector.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 15, 2019
Proven collaborative construction delivery methods have existed for decades. These solutions can consistently assure that quality renovation, repair, and new construction projects are delivered on-time and on-budget. LEAN Collaborative Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery.
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Learning how to effciently manage dynamic project is the first step toward solving FM and construction waste. – The application of system thinking to facilities management (FM) and the AECOO sector, and associated tools and support processes, can consistently ensure the delivery of quality, sustainable outcomes, on time and on budget.
BDC Network
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
I worked on several different project types including sign frames for Universal Studios, exterior light gauge wall framing for a convention center, hotels in the theme park district, and several tilt-wall distribution warehouses in Central Florida. I have carried this lesson to every project I have managed since then.
Building Information Management
AUGUST 26, 2020
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.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 13, 2021
Change orders easily add 20%-30% or more to the total cost of a project, create delays, and generally frustrate the parties involved. Integrated project delivery (IPD) and LEAN job order contracting (JOC) are the most widely known and robust of these collaborative and integrated construction planning, procurement, and delivery methods.
Building Information Management
JUNE 26, 2016
LEAN, Collaborative, and Integrated Construction Delivery. The project delivery method ultimately determines the outcomes of renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability and new construction activities more so than than any other single factor. but associated interactions.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 31, 2021
A collaborative construction solution, capable of consistently delivering quality repair, renovation, and new builds, on-time and on-budget, is available to any real property owner. “project” in reality is simply a bunch of diverse sub-projects, each handled independently and in its own manner. The Problem.
Building Information Management
JANUARY 23, 2012
It appears that Capitol Hill is beginning to recognize the linkage between BIM and efficient project delivery methods such as IPD (Integrated Project Delivery) and JOC (Job Order Contracting), the latter a version of IPD targeting facility renovation, repair, and sustainability construction projects.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 8, 2019
Collaborative Construction Contracting & LEAN Project Delivery. In both cases, real property owners, facilities managers, users, and their service providers ( contractors, architects, engineers) are integrated into a single performance-based contract based upon proven LEAN construction procurement and delivery methodology.
Job Order Contracting
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Stakeholders have had to work within disjointed planning, procurement, project delivery, and operations teams and processes to attempt to meet performance goals. The net results have been a legacy of waste with overspending on the levels of 30% to 40%+, late projects, and inadequate quality.
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