While accurate, timely, and transparent cost estimating is critical to the success of any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction project, most construction cost estimators (over 55%) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. Lack of robust business processes, management practices, proper education and training, [...]
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Construction Cost Estimating Software vs. Spreadsheets State of the Nation 2012
By mbrown on May 6, 2012 in 4Clicks, BOA, design-bid-build, e4Clicks, eTakeoff, IPD, Job Order Contracting, JOC, MACC, MATOC, Microsoft Excel, POCA, RSMeans, SABER, SATOC, Spreadsheets, Uncategorized
Project delivery methods play a critical role in cost effective facility asset management
By mbrown on March 30, 2012 in BIM, Cloud, design-bid-build, e4Clicks, IPD, JOC, SABER, Uncategorized
Traditional methods such as design-bid-build and even “newer” methods such as design-build are not fully collaborative. The net result is information is not shared by all parties and adversarial components of these methods typically lead to mistrust and waste. Integrated project delivery (IPD) and Job order contracting (JOC), the later also referred to as “IPD-lite” [...]
SABER and JOC for High Performance Buildings
1. Buildings account for almost 40 percent of primary energy use in the United States, 12 percent of total water use, and 60 percent of all non-industrial waste. Indoor environmental quality of buildings affects the health, safety, and productivity of the people who occupy them. 2. The U.S. federal government has the opportunity, and the [...]
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