Improving Job Order Contracts to maximize renovation, repair, and construction productivity is easy if you have the right approach, tools, and training.
Improving Job Order Contracts can help to assure that over 90% of renovation, repair, and minor new construction projects are completed on-time, on-budget, and to everyone’s satisfaction. This is only possible, however, if the Job Order Contracts are designed, implemented, and managed properly.
Here are the some major issues to take a look at when Improving Job Order Contracts..
1- LEAN Construction Delivery Approach
LEAN Construction Delivery can significantly improve quality, productivity, and overall levels of satisfaction. That said, some JOC Programs, especially at the County, State, and Local Government levels have bee set up simple as a means to bypass traditional procurement versus truly establish LEAN collaborative construction delivery processes.
Real property owners must be directly providing leadership and participate in day-to-day functions, and not rely upon a JOC Consultant to provide a management role.
2- Cloud Based Collaboration Tools
Cloud technology best enables internal and external teams to be connected, and have access to current and actional information from anywhere, anytime.
LEAN collaborative project delivery models need to work in a shared space so that decisions, updates and communications are simultaneously and instantly applied, flagged, and tracked.
3 – Carbon Footprint Reduction
According to the International Energy Agency, almost 30% of worldwide energy is attributable to buildings (40% of total in energy in the United States), and will increase 1.5% year through 2040 to almost 50%. The United States is largest user of energy for commercial use. Building energy use, and associated renovation, repair, and sustainability is therefore the top priority. Job order contracting can assist all forms of organizations to expedite the numerous projects to meet sustainability goals.
3 – Financial Visibility & Transparency
Locally researched detailed unit price cost data is key to improved financial visibility and transparency. National average unit price commercial construction cost books have their purpose, however, for JOC, you need more. Check our OpenCost Advantage!
