If your are a facilities Owner, Builder, AE, or Architect and are TIRED OF THE SAME OLD PROJECT BS, keep reading….
THE TECHNOLOGY MYTH – Technology will solve my construction issues. No! Technology alone won’t solve your stream of late, over-budget, and poorly completed repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build projects. BIM won’t do it, CMMS won’t do it, IWMS won’t do it, ERP won’t do it.
Culture, People, Process, and Information
FACT – Only Owners can improve the situation – To effect significant positive change requires moving away from things that have caused low productivity, waste, and dismal relationships with vendors and created dissatisfaction among building users.
While you’ve like heard about LEAN, IPD, JOC, etc. it’s time to learn about it… really learn about it. “Last Planner”, “Six Sigma”, “Kaizen”, et al are NOT LEAN construction delivery solutions, but rather LEAN concepts or philosophies. Nor do the directly target the core issues associate with construction delivery. IPD and JOC are both lean construction delivery methodologies, but again, they are not full solutions.
Solution
Beginning with the commitment of senior management, the next step is to develop a plan and your desired goals for integrating your Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery activities. It will come as no surprise that integrating theses elements and all participants on an early and ongoing basis, within a transparent, common information sharing environment, has alone proven capable of consistent delivery of 80%-90% of ALL repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds on-time, on-budget, and to everyone’s satisfaction. When compared to the industry average of 10%-20%, I’d say that is “significant improvement”… wouldn’t you?
A construction delivery method and associated contract, with appropriate tools and support services which integrate planning, procurement, and project delivery, is the ONLY proven method to consistently achieve BEST VALUE outcomes for ALL participants and stakeholders.
- A all stakeholders to determine the schedule, cost, schedule and outcome.
- AN open, transparent, and integrated environment enables teams to leverage expertise, recognize, prioritize and solve problems.
