Adaptive Lean Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery tools and services are readily available to assure the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction projects on-time and on-budget.
The fundamental issues associated with design-bid-build and even design-bid, are well known to experienced AECOO professionals (architecture, engineering, construction, operations, owner). Rampant waste and high levels of dissatisfaction of all participants and stakeholders are the norm.
With a bit of leadership and commitment on the part of real property owners, and a program of initial and ongoing training, over 90% of all repair, renovation, and construction projects can be delivered on-time and on-budget, as well as to the mutual satisfaction of everyone involved.
Adaptive LEAN Construction Basics – Collaborative management and governance with early and ongoing communication of all participants rests at the core of adaptive LEAN construction. Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery, with a focus upon transparency and mutually beneficial outcomes is equally important. A common data environment, including a detailed unit price line item cost data resource are mandatory componets to assure full communication of scope of work and associate work requirements, costs, and schedules.
Technology, while secondary to outcome-focused processes, supports lower cost deployment, access to current actionable information, consistency of developed workflows, and enables real-time monitoring.
Roles and responsibilities, deliverables, tools, workflows, etc., are all specified with a collaborative contract and an operations manual/execution guide. Global oversight is integrated with localized decision-making. Recognition and leverage of the expertise of those actually doing the work is the norm.
Adaptive LEAN construction serves to integrate People, Process, Information, and Technology throughout all phases of Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery.
Financial visibility and predictability is available for all projects through a PROGRAM focus. This Program focus is shared among all participants and stakeholders and maintained and continuously improved via long-term mutually beneficial relationships. Reward is performance based.
Summary – In order to achieve the benefits of adaptive LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery, real property and owners and their service partners need to adapt and abide by its collaborative principles and characteristics.
Hopefully there will come a time when more owners will explore and adapt efficient and integrated construction planning, procurement, an project delivery methods.
Via Four BT, LLC, the AEC industry’s innovative integrated project delivery, detailed locally researched construction cost data, and SAAS technology solutions provider integrating powerful, proven adaptive LEAN project planning, procurement, and execution methods.
We help guide organizations to achieve accelerated improvement of their facilities repair, renovation, and construction outcomes through the development of a culture and client-specific programs centered upon delivering customer value, driven by, proven LEAN processes, actionable data, enabling cloud technology, and ongoing training.
- Program Management
- Contract Management
- Project Management
- Work Order Management
- Full Document Management (version control, inclusive of document “check-in/check-out”)
- Building Management
- Geolocation
- Space Management
- Component Management
- Issues/Task Management
- Team Management
- Contractor/Subcontractor Management
- MBE/WBE/HUBZONE… Management
- BIM Viewing and Information Access/Integration
- Internal System Messaging
- ISO Security Compliance
- Workflow Management
- Forms Management
- Work Phase Tracking
- SQL/Excel/PDF Export
- Reporting
- Co-efficient Tracking / Multiple
- Financial Tracking – Budget vs. Final
- Change Order Tracking
- Non-prepriced line item Tracking
- Copy/paste Projects
- Copy/paste Estimates
- Automatic Estimate Comparison
- Five (5) Security Levels
- Support for multiple UPBs
- Locks UPB to Contract
- Search Capabilities (Tree, Masterformat, Full Text)
- Tag and Input Multiple Line Items
- Multi-Format Viewer (DWG, Revit, PDF…)
- Associate and Manage Multiple Coefficients
- User Dashboard
- Summary and Detailed Estimate/Bid/Proposals Reports