If you, as a real property portfolio owner, hope to reduce deferred maintenance and efficiently execute your numerous renovation, repair, and minor new construction projects, it’s time to Define and Deploy a Strategic, Best Value Job Order Contract.
LEAN processes and workflows, a common data environment, and supporting technology are the proven path to measurable improvements in facilities repair, renovation, and new construction outcomes.
Success, however is IMPOSSIBLE without recognizing and implementing CHANGE MANAGEMENT internally and with your AEC service providers/partners.
- Reimagine your service levels. Define your vision and strategy. Set your economic, environmental, and service level goals and conduct a gap analysis to determine you current status and your requirements to achieve your desired level of improvement.
- Invest in skills. Education, training must be required for ALL participants and stakeholders. Not simply initial training, but ongoing and multi-level and multi-format training.
- LEAN processes and workflow drive everything. Collaboration is also required. Focus is upon outcomes, mutual trust/respect, leveraging team experience, soliciting and acting upon everyone’s ideas, front loading information requirements, shared risk/reward, long-term relationships, best value procurement.
- Assure a common data environment (CDE). Require the used of a common glossary of terms and their associated definitions… in plain English. Leverage locally researched construction task and cost databases, organized via CSI Masterformat.
- Focus upon the CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY METHOD. No single item impacts project/program success more than the construction delivery method. Do away with Design-Bid-Build, and even Design-Build, and deploy Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for major new construction, and Job Order Contracting (JOC) for repair, renovation, and minor new construction.
All the tools, training, data, and technology are available to improve life-cycle management of the built environment. Isn’t it time you did so?