Ensuring COLLABORATION from Planning, through Procurement, through Project Delivery, and Beyond for repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction requires an integrated outcome-focused process. The integration of People, Process, Information, and Technology is the only proven pathway to the consistent delivery of quality projects on-time and on-budget.
Integrated project delivery (IPD) is a robust outcome-focused method for assuring best value outcomes for all participants and stakeholders, including AEs, Builders, Facilities Management and Owners, and Building Users. All of the tools are services are readily available for any real property owner to tailor IPD to their organization.
Programs, Projects, Proposals/Bids/Estimates, Work Orders, Documents, Service Providers, Buildings, Components, Spaces, Forms, Workflows can all be managed and continuously improved within an IPD environment. While implementation does require a certain amount of change management for most organizations, the process is far from complex. The end result of having proactive internal and external teams focused upon mutually beneficial outcomes and continuous improvement is well worth an required implementation efforts or costs.
The 4BT OpenBuild(TM) Solution is an example of a suite of tools and services that integrate people, process, information, and technology by embedding LEAN integrated project planning, procurement, and project delivery within a common data environment from pre-planning through project execution and beyond.
Detailed Scope of Work development and communication is simplified and maximized through the use of a locally researched line item unit price book. With separate and granular breakdowns for labor, materials, equipment and crew information, the development of work schedules and verifiable cost requirements can easily be accomplished. The detailed unit price book (UPB) is based upon the time, materials, and costs actually required at a task level, non “historical information” or “benchmarks”. The latter two techniques are clearly faulty in terms of gauging current and future performance. What an organization has done in the past should not be the determining factor for what is possible.
via Four BT, LLC – Four BT, LLC (4BT) is the AEC industry’s innovative integrated project delivery, construction cost data, and SAAS technology provider. We help guide organizations to achieve accelerated improvement of their facilities repair, renovation, and construction outcomes through the development of a culture centered upon delivering customer value, supported by proven LEAN processes, actionable data, enabling cloud technology, and ongoing training.
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
– Henry Ford