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Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Procurement Project Management 
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. IPD and Lean Lead to Success [Report].
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.
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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.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 11, 2020
Integrated project delivery tools and support services are now available for the repair, alteration, modernization, rehabilitation, and minor new construction of infrastructure, buildings, structures, or other real property. The post LEAN Integrated Project Delivery Tools and Services appeared first on 4BT.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 17, 2020
The path to LEAN construction planning, procurement, and integrated project delivery, IPD… 1. Integrate processes into well defined workflows. As the saying goes, it’s impossible to manage what you don’t measure. Strategy and process before technology. Reward based upon performance.
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
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.
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
MARCH 31, 2021
If your are a facilities Owner, Builder, AE, or Architect and are TIRED OF THE SAME OLD PROJECT BS, keep reading… THE TECHNOLOGY MYTH – Technology will solve my construction issues. Technology alone won’t solve your stream of late, over-budget, and poorly completed repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build projects.
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 22, 2021
Introduction – 2021 Facilities Repair Renovation and New Construction Cost Management spans multiple principles, practices, domains, and more. All of the above are available within integrated project delivery (IPD) and LEAN job order contracting (LEAN JOC) frameworks and enabling solution sets.
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
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Learning how to effciently manage dynamic project is the first step toward solving FM and construction waste. We all know that traditional planning, procurement, and project delivery practices are adversarial, and broken, yet we fail to address this basic issue. Why does it matter? Care of People.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 28, 2021
#1 IPD isn’t new, it has around for decades. 2 LEAN Job Order Contracting is IPD for repair, renovation, and maintenance, and and minor new construction. It consistently delivers quality projection on-time and on-budget when implemented and managed properly. #3 3 Lastly, BIM is simply a technology tool. . #2
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. CSI Masterformat, is a key CDE element.
Job Order Contracting
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
91% of FM managers say there’s a gap between the knowledge and skills their team has and what they need to excel. Savvy public facility management professionals are diligently working to significantly alter the ‘status quo’ and achieve significant performance gains. Job Order Contracting has never been easier. 2021 PMI Survey.
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.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 19, 2022
The good news is that any public sector entity can reduce waste and save 30%-40% of its resources through the implementation of robust processes that integrate planning, procurement, and project delivery across internal and external teams. Integrated Project Delivery: A Working Definition (2nd ed.).
Building Information Management
AUGUST 6, 2012
Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment comes down to analyzing large data sets— big data—from several knowledge domains. Operative elements associate with leveraging big data for BIM (BIM defined as efficient life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology) include: - Transparency.
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Construction cost knowledge management is a component of integrated LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. Most real property owners have not yet recognized the importance of construction cost knowledge management and thus have not developed the capabilities needed to support it.
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
MARCH 3, 2020
Consistent on-time, on-budget delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects is possible only when owners have the requisite levels of leadership and competency. Robust LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery tools and services are readily available.
Job Order Contracting
MAY 19, 2022
A process is needed that integrates internal and external teams on an early and ongoing basis throughout the Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery phases and beyond. Should be scalable across project types, sizes, locations, and teams. contact-form] What’s needed for LEAN IPD or LEAN JOC?
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 25, 2023
Embrace the next generation of Construction and Sustainable Lifecycle Facilities Management! Move all repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects forward with proactive, informed decisions. Know exactly how your request for proposals, projects, approvals, budgets, and work orders are progressing — from anywhere, anytime.
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.
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 29, 2024
That said, most JOC Programs are not designed, implemented, and managed properly. 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.
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
MARCH 4, 2022
Two of these solutions are Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Job Order Contracting (JOC). Both IPD and JOC are not the issue, but rather the implementing organization and/or service provider have been the cause of “failure” Let’s focus on JOC. Fully Compliant. Common Source of Truth.
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
MARCH 30, 2021
Ensure robust nontechnical risk management by developing long-term relationships with well defined roles, responsibilities, workflows, information requirements, and deliverables. Individual projects WILL NOT consistently achieve bst value outcomes unless they are conducted within an overall programmatic environment!
BDC Network
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Scott Martin, PE, LEED AP, DBIA Building Team Contractors Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Engineers Facility Managers Architects Building Owners Recently, I was asked to present to a group of aspiring engineers at the Florida A&M-Florida State University College of Engineering.
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.
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 9, 2012
BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technologies. 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.
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.
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. Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide (1st ed.).
Job Order Contracting
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Any construction “project” can be defined as any number of more granular tasks that are performed in sequence or in parallel. Both programmatic processes are capable of consistently delivering quality projects on time and on budget, however, both are poorly understood and rarely implemented or managed correctly.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 26, 2024
Materials: Precise material quantities and delivery schedules are essential to ensure that the right materials are on-site when needed, avoiding delays or overstock. Cost Management and Optimization Cost Visibility: Granular data on tasks allow for better cost estimation and management.
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Sustainability and Facilities Management in the Public Sector are critical issues from both environmental and economic perspectives. These methods support project stakeholders in working according to a risk-and-reward sharing principle and boost performance-based process management.
Building Information Management
JULY 30, 2012
BIM is the process of efficient life-cycle management supported by digital technology. Until appropriate process and technologies are deployed BIM will not become mainstream and the architecture, engineering, construction, and building operations/facility management sectors will continue their trend of low productivity and waste.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 22, 2019
The common facilities management challenges can be mitigated using LEAN alternative construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. Common Facilities Management Challenges: Limited Budget Limited Resources & Staff Deferred Maintenance Prioritizing Projects Meeting Project Timelines.
Job Order Contracting
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Alternative Project Delivery (APD) offers the opportunity delivers significant added value versus traditional design-bid-build, design-build, Construction Management at Risk (CMAR), Agency?CM Leverage LEAN Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery to Consistently Achieve Best Value.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 13, 2021
Any facilities owner or management professional can virtually eliminate change order for repair, renovation, and new builds. Change orders easily add 20%-30% or more to the total cost of a project, create delays, and generally frustrate the parties involved. The post Virtually eliminate Change Orders appeared first on 4BT.
Job Order Contracting
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
A process that does not provide stakeholders with cost visibility, transparency, or management capabilities. Stakeholders have had to work within disjointed planning, procurement, project delivery, and operations teams and processes to attempt to meet performance goals.
Job Order Contracting
APRIL 24, 2021
Facilities management professionals… here is an introduction to a LEAN Implementation ROADMAP for CONSTRUCTION, including all the processes, tools, and support services you need to consistently drive quality, on-time, and on-budget repair, renovation, and new builds. LEAN is a philosophy dating back as far as Henry Ford.
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