The consistent deployment and leverage of efficient, collaborative, LEAN construction processes is what drives significant productivity gains for both owners and contractors.
Efficiently managing the numerous, ongoing repair, renovation, and minor new construction projects facing owner Facilities Management and Procurement teams has proven challenging to many. Assuring that over 90% of these projects are completed on-time, on-budget, and to the satisfaction of owners, contractors, and building users can be consistently achieved by harnessing the competencies, experience, and information across all internal and external teams. The OpenJOC(TM) LEAN Job Order Contracting Solution provides the requisite processes, common data environment (CDE), training, and technologies to support owners and contractors alike.
Financial Transparency
Having a locally researched unit prices book (UPB), organized using CSI Masterformat, and including both parent line item costs and line item modifiers, is one of several core elements. Each line item is described in plain English and includes sufficient details to define the construction task as well as provides total price per unit of measure and associated labor, material, and equipment breakdowns. The UPB is critical to financial transparency and complete work scope definition.
Understanding the Value of Collaboration
Effective Facilities Management, procurement, and construction professionals understand the value of collaboration, long term relationships, shared risk/reward, and mutual trust/respect.
The Role of Technology
Technology is an enabler and NEVER should drive the process. The role of technology is simple… to enable lower cost and consistent deployment of robust processes, share and enable the reuse of actionable information, and provide measurement capabilities.
Adaptability
LEAN Job Order Contracting provides a shared work environment and defined workflows that enable all participants to contribute to continuous improvement. While LEAN is based upon robust processes and defined workflows, individual leverage these to implement optimal solutions in response to dynamic nature of construction. Problem sharing and team problem solve is encouraged. It’s a given that no two construction projects are the same, an the ability to adapt is critical.
Compliance
Whether State, County, Local and/or Federal statutes/regulations apply, compliance must be assured. Process, common date environments, financial transparency, and technology all are important to assuring requisite compliance.
