Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Active Construction Cost Management is important to any repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build activity. Questions every real property owners should ask before procuring a repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build service. #1 4 Is the cost estimate organized using a standard data architecture (i.e.

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Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Comprehensive Unit Cost Database Easily estimate the any type of commercial repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build project. Move beyond square foot and parametric estimating Stop using inefficient processes and get Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery Teams on the same page via r obust programmatic frameworks.

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UK Construction Blog

JULY 18, 2025

Understanding the Basics of IFRS 16 The International Financial Reporting Standard 16 (or IFRS 16 ) redefined how leases are reported on financial statements. Under the previous standard (IAS 17), operating leases—like many construction equipment rentals—were kept off the balance sheet. With IFRS 16, that changed.

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UK Construction Blog

JUNE 27, 2025

The post Future Proofing Commercial Builds: Choosing Durable, Compliant Materials appeared first on UK Construction Blog. In the UK, building regulations are becoming increasingly stringent in recent years, especially when it comes to energy efficiency and fire safety.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 18, 2025

It has long been recognized that detailed line item estimating is a proven best practice for developing verifiable, objective, and actionable cost information for repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects. Standardized Data Architecture: Use a robust data architecture such as expanded CSI Masterformat.

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UK Construction Blog

JULY 3, 2025

Technology integration is crucial for sustainable construction success, with Building Information Modelling (BIM) reducing waste by 30%, smart building systems achieving 20-30% energy savings, and digital tools enabling precise resource management and real-time monitoring. What Is Sustainable Construction?

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UK Construction Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Sustainability is also a big focus; new rules in the EU require all new buildings to be zero-emission by 2030. While green buildings cost more to build, they can cut long-term operating costs by up to 40%. It sets the foundation for building. Architectural planning: Creating the building design, layout, and structure.

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Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 3, 2025

Historical Precedent and Familiarity RSMeans has been a longstanding standard in construction cost estimation. Perceived Standardization RSMeans provides a nationally standardized database, which may give the illusion of consistency across different regions and projects.

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Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 25, 2025

Cost data organized by a well-defined Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and standardized data architecture such as expanded CSI Masterformat. While any organization with requisite talent and funding can build and maintain an accurate, up to data, repository of tens of thousands of construction line items, the resources required are nontrivial.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 21, 2025

Build a Strong Cost Data Foundation – Strategies for Change A significant issue in public sector capital planning and associated repair, renovation, maintenance, and construction is the reliance on outdated, national average cost data and flawed location/economic multipliers. Build a Strong Cost Data Foundation 2.

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UK Construction Blog

JULY 15, 2025

This comprehensive design process separates timber frame construction from conventional building methods and determines the success of the entire project. The design phase typically begins 6-12 months before construction starts, allowing sufficient time for material procurement, detailed engineering analysis, and workshop preparation.

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Buildern

JULY 14, 2025

To build forecasts that stick, draw from a combination of: Historical project data: Previous cost trends, cash-flow patterns, and earned value metrics. With that early warning, the procurement team might choose to lock in pricing now or explore alternate materials before the spike hits the budget.

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UK Construction Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Construction begins in summer 2025 with Limak International as the main contractor, the same company working on FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou redevelopment, ensuring world-class expertise for the 30-month build programme. You’d find it difficult to imagine a top-flight club operating from such a compact venue.

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UK Construction Blog

MAY 22, 2025

The post Eco-Friendly Building: Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling on Site appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Architects and designers can help minimise waste by specifying materials that come in standard dimensions, which reduces offcuts and unusable remnants. Procurement also plays a major role in waste prevention.

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Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Managing change orders for any size of repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build project, whether IPD, alliance job order contracting, DB, DBB, ‘et al’, simply requires a robust preconstruction process in most instances.

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Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Early Contractor Involvement is a mandatory component in any real property owner process designed to ensure consistent delivery of quaility repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects on-time and on-budget. The issues associated with Traditional Construction * Project Delivery (DB, DBB, CMAR…) are clear.

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CCR Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2025

Steel, concrete, glass, and other essential materials can experience price surges due to global supply issues or local procurement challenges. Zoning laws, building codes, environmental regulations, and permits all contribute to the overall expense of any construction project. These unforeseen challenges often lead to cost overruns.

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Safety Services Company

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

ISNetworld® certification is a prestigious recognition granted through the ISNetworld® platform , designed to streamline contractor management by ensuring safety, procurement, and regulatory compliance. Enhanced Credibility : Obtaining this recognition signifies your dedication to maintaining high safety and compliance standards.

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Construction Law

JUNE 9, 2025

Editor’s comment Anti-cartel enforcers warn of focus on public procurement using AI tools Editor Nick Barrett reports that the Competition and Markets Authority enforcement head has warned that it is using AI tools to spot evidence of collusive behaviour. Contracts Has Design & Build outlived its usefulness in a post-Grenfell world?

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Job Order Contracting

APRIL 7, 2025

Technical planning and professional procurement team collaboration and adherence to robust best management practices are needed to mitigate financial and environmental waste. Five primary questions to be answered are: 1. Typically used as a last-resort method. #5. Understand the Requirement.

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Construction Specifier

DECEMBER 23, 2024

on the exterior of the building, which increases the effective thermal resistance of the assembly. Wall panels with shiplap joints may also require installation in a particular order on the building. They must also be safely handled during installation and hoisted onto the building. EIFS provides continuous insulation (c.i.)

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UK Construction Blog

JULY 15, 2025

Digital inspection checklists ensure consistency across different projects and help maintain quality standards. You can customise forms and checklists to match specific project requirements or company standards. The ability to attach multimedia content to reports provides clear evidence of work completed and any issues identified.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 1, 2025

Problems within the methodology, unfortunately, will continue to arise as standardized estimation tools (CCI) simply cannot account for the unique characteristics of individual states. (Migliaccio, G., Empirical Assessment of Spatial Prediction Methods for Location Cost Adjustment Factors, J Constr Eng Manag.

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Construction Specifier

APRIL 27, 2025

Precast concrete is a desirable material for these buildings for a variety of reasons, whether used for walls, floors, and roof panels in a total precast structure or as an enclosure system. While data centers are currently being constructed at a fast pace, they are not a new building type.

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Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Cost overruns and delays result in the 80%+ of all repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects being 30%-40% over budget. 85% of construction “failures”* are the result of poor preconstruction planning and disjointed procurement, and/or failure to implement a robust, collaborative project delivery method.

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UK Construction Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

It provides continuous updates on location, condition, and timingfrom procurement and production to final delivery. This builds loyalty and reduces customer service inquiries. Compliance and Documentation Advantages Real-time logs and digital documentation help businesses meet regulatory standards, especially in global logistics.

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UK Construction Blog

JULY 22, 2025

The post Fire Doors vs Standard Doors: Essential Safety Knowledge for Building Professionals appeared first on UK Construction Blog. One person dies every two days in the UK due to fires in buildings, and in many cases, the difference between survival and tragedy comes down to a single element: the doors.

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It is the foundation of any repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build activity throughout associated planning, procurement, and project delivery. Reliable cost data is critical to efficient lifecycle total cost of ownership management for any built structure. What is reliable cost data?

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Jonas Construction

AUGUST 20, 2024

In Canada, non-residential building construction costs rose by 0.8% This can be attributed to industry and economic challenges such as skilled labor shortages leading to higher labor rates, fluctuating material costs, interest rate pressures, and updates to building codes. in the first quarter of 2024.

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Construction Law

JUNE 30, 2025

News Our regular news round up reports on the Stewart review of major project delivery; consultation opening on procurement reforms; and a competition regulator inquiry into the roads and railways construction sector. Could those days be over thanks to newly announced reforms, asks Editor Nick Barrett.

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The Construction Index

JULY 6, 2025

Robbie Blackhurst introduces his Centre for Construction Best Practice The Centre for Construction Best Practice has been set up by the man behind purchasing agency Procure Partnerships to promote collaboration, innovation and improved delivery standards in the industry. That’s why becoming a corporate partner of CCBP made sense.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 16, 2025

is comprised of two buildings with two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments, common lounges, study areas, a fitness center, conference rooms and a market/café. Sundt Concrete places the West Building mat foundation and East Building slab on grade. Choosing a standard toilet over something more cutting edge, for example. “In

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Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Other, less stringent forms of cost estimating include the following: national average line-item cost data (with or without adjustment or localization factors), system or assembly level cost data, building level and/or other forms of parametric cost data, as well as historical cost data and economic factoring.

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CCR Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2025

.” Consistent Supply Fasteners Direct is necessary for many building projects and products. Build a safety stock, which acts as a buffer for unforeseen demand changes. Build a safety stock, which acts as a buffer for unforeseen demand changes.

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Stok

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By engaging tenants in the decarbonization journey, landlords can: Guide energy consumption reduction : Depending on the building type, the building’s occupants can control up to 80% of energy use in a commercial building. Tenant engagement in decarbonization efforts is pivotal.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 16, 2025

is comprised of two buildings with two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments, common lounges, study areas, a fitness center, conference rooms and a market/café. Sundt Concrete places the West Building mat foundation and East Building slab on grade. Choosing a standard toilet over something more cutting edge, for example. “In

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The Construction Index

JULY 1, 2025

Build UK has published an updated version of the Common Assessment Standard, and the building safety section must now be completed by all companies that carry out design or building work under the Building Safety Act. Got a story? Email news@theconstructionindex.co.uk

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