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Definition Estimating Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) 
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. In other words, robust, LEAN process takes precedence for all associated projects.
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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. These environments, when properly deployed and managed, drive unparalleled levels of efficiency quality.
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
According to industry data, the average bid win percentage for a commercial contractor is 25%, meaning for every 10 bids submitted, they would win 2-3 projects. The industry average of 25% largely reflects the inefficiencies in bid preparation, lack of trust in cost estimates, and inconsistencies in pricing.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 30, 2021
As real property owners, it’s your roles to encourage innovation and new approaches by prescribing means and methods of planning, procurement, and project delivery and requiring compliance. Individual projects WILL NOT consistently achieve bst value outcomes unless they are conducted within an overall programmatic environment!
Building Information Management
AUGUST 15, 2013
BIM Definition – Short – The life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. BIM Definition – Short – The life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. QTO, and an exclusively enhanced 400,000 line itme RSMeans Cost database.
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
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. Oddly, Integrated Project Delivery and Job Order Contracting both offer proven collaborative process supported by digital technology, yet are decades old.
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.
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
MAY 23, 2012
Professional construction cost estimators are critical to any collaborative, transparent, and productive BIM solution.
Building Information Management
AUGUST 29, 2012
First, a few clarifications and items to help frame this discussion: BIM definition: “BIM is the life-cycle modeling and management of the built environment supported by digital technology.” Existing processes and construction delivery methods are largely antagonistic and outdated, with divergent goals for involved parties.
Building Information Management
JANUARY 17, 2012
Definition of BIM. . The availability and integration of secure technology to promote collaboration and. Definition of THE CLOUD. All of these are common within all phases of construction, repair, renovation, or sustainability projects. BIM can be applied at various levels.
Building Information Management
MAY 16, 2013
Too much focus on 3D visualization, too much “reinventing the wheel” trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, and virtually NO EMPHASIS upon the requirements for life-cycle management… associated competencies, domains, technologies, ongoing collaboration, integration, and continuous improvement.
Building Information Management
MAY 29, 2012
Truth be told, there is only one significant barrier to efficient AECOO practices and it is our existing culture of mistrust, lack of open communication, and reliance upon antagonistic construction delivery methods. 2-Current examples include integrated project delivery (IPD) for new construction and job order contracting (JOC).
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
4Clicks.com – premier software for cost estimating and efficient project delivery – JOC, SABER, IPD, SATOC, MATOC, IDIQ, POCA, MACC, BOA … It’s simple, collaboration and improved “cradle to cradle” facility life-cycle management approaches will be required for survival.
Job Order Contracting
JULY 30, 2018
Detailed Line Item Construction Cost Estimating Matters a great deal to estimating, risk management, facilities management, and service providers (A/E’s, builders…). Overall program/project outcomes. Others also talk about the value of historical cost data in projecting future outcomes. Local material costs.
40 Building Information Management
JULY 16, 2014
most notably with their SABER construction delivery structure. Robust Ontology – Cost effective information management and information reuse can only be accomplished with a detailed set of terms, definitions, metrics, etc. . 3D tools are great, and add value, however, INFORMATION and PROCESS drive success.
Building Information Management
MAY 13, 2013
Facility management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology. – Definition of Facility Management – IFMA. NBIMS and similar efforts are steps in the right direction.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 28, 2018
Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates per the GAO. DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURE: Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates GAO-18-101: Published: Mar 27, 2018. The bulk of funding should be spent upon planned an preventive activities versus emergency or unplanned projects.
Building Information Management
APRIL 11, 2013
Model View Definitions (MVD) and associated exchange specifications, provide the best benefit if they are modular and reusable and developed from Industry Foundation Class (IFC) Product Modeling Concepts. The Process Side of BIM = Collaboration: People, Process, & Technology. 800×600.
Building Information Management
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Job Order Contracting is a collaborative construction delivery method, a type of integrated project delivery (IPD) that specifically targets renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction. Early and ongoing information-sharing among project stakeholders. Appropriate distribution of risk.
Building Information Management
APRIL 26, 2013
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. Design-bid-build, the traditional construction delivery method for decades, is inherently flawed. By Peter Cholakis.
Building Information Management
JANUARY 14, 2013
Definition of information and and the rights and obligations associated with it are the basis for uniform intra and international use. - – The acceptance and increased use of collaborative construction delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Job Order Contracting (JOC). .
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
MARCH 26, 2012
Other components include, capital planning and management systems (CPMS), cost estimating and project delivery systems (IPD – integrated project delivery, JOC – job order contracting), computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), building automation systems (BAS), geographic information systems (GIS), and others.
Building Information Management
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
Leveraging BIG DATA to achieve efficient life-cycle management of the built environment is not a trivial task, nor is it “rocket science” It does however require the integration of robust business process, especially collaborative construction delivery methods, technology, and a standardized ontology.
Building Information Management
AUGUST 20, 2012
Integrated Project Delivery – IPD, Job Order Contracting, and similar LEAN construction methods will need be become mainstream. The entire design and construction industry needs to rethink Lean in terms of overhauling entire project delivery models.
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 29, 2013
BIM, the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology is all about the integration of PEOPLE and PROCESSES and INFORMATION. Collaborative construction/project delivery method: Integrated project delivery (IPD), job order contracting (JOC), private-public partnership (PPP) … 2.
Building Information Management
MARCH 20, 2013
Robust, collaborative construction delivery methods – IPD, Integrated Project Delivery, JOC – Job Order Contracting, et al. Standardized “Glossary” terms, acronyms, definitions. Benchmarks, metrics. Technology focused upon enabling robust processes…vs. and Canada. and Canada.
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
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
BLM – Building Life-cycle Management requires fundamental process changes within all participating organizations / stakeholders and the associated integration and use of multiple competencies, processes, and technologies. Here’s a short list of considerations, features, requirements, and realizations associated with BLM.
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 24, 2013
BIM require s the integration of previously d ispara te compet enci es, processes, and technologies. The success/failure of ANY repair, renovation, sustainability, or new construction project is largely dependent upon the construction project delivery method and associated composition of a collaborative, experienced team. .
Building Information Management
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Collaborative, Efficient Project Delivery Methods (IPD- Integrated Project Delivery, JOC – Job Order Contracting …). Standards (OMNICLASS, COBie, IFC), Common Terms, Definitions, Metrics, Cost Data (Standardized Cost Data, example-RSMeans). BIM requirements: Organizational Commitment.
Building Information Management
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Collaborative, Efficient Project Delivery Methods (IPD- Integrated Project Delivery, JOC – Job Order Contracting …). Standards (OMNICLASS, COBie, IFC), Common Terms, Definitions, Metrics, Cost Data (Standardized Cost Data, example-RSMeans). BIM requirements: Organizational Commitment.
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
LEAN Collaborative Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery Methodology with a focus upon BEST VALUE OUTCOMES Common Data Environment (CDE) using common standards terms, definitions, and robust data architectures. Learn more… Simple Guide to LEAN Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery.
Building Information Management
JULY 18, 2013
Collaborative construction delivery methods. Adoption of collaborative construction delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), and Job Order Contracting (JOC) … both decades old… has accelerated, and also are important . Transparency. Common glossary of terms. change agents.
Building Information Management
APRIL 26, 2014
Collaboration and integrated, efficient project delivery methods are needed to achieve productivity gains within the architecture, engineering, construction, owner and operator (A/E/C/O/O) industry. At the same time a robust ONTOLOGY and consensus-based standards demand immediate focus. RSMeans Strategic Partner.
Building Information Management
DECEMBER 14, 2012
They are disruptive technologies with integral business processes/practices that demand collaboration, transparency, and accurate/current information displayed via common terminology. JOC is a form of integrated project delivery specifically targeting facility renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction).
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Discrepancies in construction delivery methods and contracts lead to the failure of BIM, or many/most facility renovation, repair projects. It is time to rethink the contractual context for efficient construction project delivery. THE ROLE OF CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY METHODS. Life-cycle Management 101.
Job Order Contracting
MAY 25, 2017
LEAN Construction Primer, an introduction to collaborative construction delivery. LEAN Construction delivers higher productivity and over 90% of construction projects on-time, on-budget, and to everyone’s satisfaction. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures (i.e. Integrates Service Delivery.
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 1, 2014
Efficient Construction Project Delivery – BIM3, Ontology, and Process. Actionable, transparent information, collaboration, and supporting technology are requirements in reaching the goal of more efficient construction project delivery and life-cycle management of the built environment.
Building Information Management
MARCH 17, 2016
A common glossary of terms, definitions, ways of organizing data (i.e. A well understood scope of work (SOW), including preliminary and detailed line item construction cost estimates, and a rock solid schedule are virtually IMPOSSIBLE without Collaboration, Transparency, and other LEAN construction best management practices.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 7, 2017
Improve Construction Productivity using Integrated Project Delivery, Job Order Contracting (JOC) and other proven LEAN construction methods. Focus upon BEST VALUE and fully leveraging and enabling the expertise of all project participants from initial concept and throughout the entire life-cycle of the built structure.
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