INTRODUCTION
Proven Job Order Contracting Practices have evolved to enable the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction project on-time and on-budget. Solutions such as the OpenJOC(TM) Framework, optimize the integration off people, process, information, and enabling technology to drive best value outcomes for both real property owners and construction services providers. Tools and services are readily available to support collaborative construction planning, procurement, and project delivery .
PROCESS VERSUS TECHNOLOGY
While the issues of low productivity and associated economic and environmental waste associated with constructing and sustaining built structures has been well documented, education and training relative to existing solutions has been insufficient.
While BIM has highlighte the need for integrating people, processes, and information, it does little to address the need to clearly establish workflows, information data sets, and requirements that drive outcomes that are truly beneficial for all participants and stakeholders.
Undue focus has been placed upon technology, in the form of BIM for example, as a potential solutions. Despite the fact that history has proven that technology is a enabler and not a solution unto itself, most organizations have focused there, rather than addressing the issue of sorely needed change and change management throughout the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Owner domains. While BIM
has highlighted the need for integrating people, processes, and information, it does little to address the need to clearly establish workflows, information data sets, and requirements that drive outcomes that are truly beneficial for all participants and stakeholders. The proven path to the the former is an integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery environment.
INTEGRATED PLANNING, PROCUREMENT, AND PROJECT DELIVERY
Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery is readily available, and ranges from LEAN job order contracting, to integrated project delivery and other forms of “alternative project delivery”. While each of these have their unique qualities and can be further tailored to specific organizational needs, they all have the following requirements…
- locally researched detailed unit price cost data, organized using a standard date architecture.
- mandatory collaboration.
- early and ongoing communication among all participants and stakeholders.
- multi-party agreement, complete with an Operations Manuals / Execution Guide.
- shared risk/reward, based upon performance
- global oversight, inclusive of KPIs, with localized decision-making (those actually doing the work)
- long-term relationships built upon trust and respect
- regular independent third-party reviews/audits
- supporting technology (program management, proposal/bid management, estimate management, project management, work order management, document management, building management, team management, issues/task management, forms management, contract management, constractor/subconstractor management, BIM information integration, internal system communication (no reliance upon emails and/or spreadsheets), and,
- required and ongoing training for all participants and stakeholders.
Collaboration between project parties, starting from the early planning phases throughout project close-out and beyond is difficult, if not impossible to achieve on a regular basis by using traditional
procurement methods, such as the Design-Bid-Build (DBB) method, or even design-build (DB).
If participants an stakeholder act as as autonomous units
focusing on their own interests and incentives, it should come as no surprise that poor performance, low levels of satisfaction, conflict and disputes, are the norm.
via Four BT, LLC – Four BT, LLC provides innovative integrated project delivery solutions inclusive of detailed locally researched construction cost data, and enabling SAAS technology. We help guide organizations to achieve accelerated improvement of their facilities repair, renovation, and construction outcomes, via client-specific programs centered upon achieving best value outcomes.
Proven LEAN construction planning, procurement and project delivery processes, actionable data, enabling cloud technology and ongoing training, are the proven path to significant gains in efficiency and satisfaction.