A Real Property Owner’s Guide to Improving Construction Productivity
Measurable improvement in facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build efficiency involves strengthening the focus on implementation. A critical aspect involves balancing standardization of activities and information with empowering those doing the work on site.
Proven Solutions
All robust solutions require implementing a “true North”. This involves creating a guideline that takes an organization through a required change management process and established a foundation of valid, actionable information.
The guideline comes in the form of an Operations Manual/Execution Guide as a component of a long-term multiparty agreement between owners and design-builders. From a required information standpoint, a locally researched detailed unit price book, organized by standards data architecture (i.e. CSI Masterformat) is mandatory to ensure cost and technical visibility and transparency.
All the tools and support services needed for any organization to consistently deliver quality projects on time and on budget are readily available. The only proven processes to date are integrated project delivery (IPD) and LEAN job order contracting (JOC). Both, however, are leveraged to their full capabilities due to poor domain formal and professional education.
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