Technology will NOT SOLVE Construction Productivity Woes.
Despite the hype of many vendors, Technology will NOT SOLVE Construction Productivity Woes.
Author: peter.cholakis@verizon.net
Efficient Public Sector Facilities Management Solution
Public Sector Facilities Management Solution
Public Sector Facilities Professionals – Reduce inefficiency, Streamline processes, Improve Quality, Manage Costs
Public Sector Facilities Professionals – Reduce inefficiency, Streamline processes, Improve Quality, Manage Costs
Embrace the next generation of Construction and Sustainable Lifecycle Facilities Management!
Embrace the next generation of Construction and Sustainable Lifecycle Facilities Management! Move all repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects forward with proactive, informed decisions.
Sustainable Job Order Contracting
Sustainable Job Order Contracting is a compliant, low cost, solution to consistently deliver quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build requirements on time and on budget with full financial transparency.
Sustainable Facilities Management – Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Builds
Sustainable facilities management is the allocation of financial, environmental, and other organizational resources in the most efficient way possible. Attainment of sustainable […]
Construction Productivity Solution – Provide support for dealing with the conflicting interests of multiple stakeholders
A robust Construction Productivity Solution must include the ability to provide support for dealing with the conflicting interests of multiple stakeholders is CRITICAL to consistent achievement of best value construction outcomes.
Systems Enablers for Sustainable Facilities Management, Repair, Renovation, and Maintenance
Systems Enablers for Sustainable Facilities Management are critical considerations for any real property portfolio owner. In fact, they dictate how efficiently or how poorly an organization manages facilities stewardship requirements.
What Job Order Contracting Should Be
Job Order Contracting should be an integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery environment where, ll parties are aligned and focused on the activities that affect actual work outcomes
Value Generation in Public Sector Facilities Management
Value generation in public sector facilities management will rapidly become a mandate. Traditionally elevated levels of economic and environmental waste are no longer supportable.
System Thinking is a Practical Approach to Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Construction
System thinking is a practical approach to facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction, offering consistent quality delivery on time and on budget.
Army Job Order Contracts FAIL to meet AFARS requirements MOST OF THE TIME
Army Job Order Contracts fail to meet critical AFARS requirements most of the time. The JOCPB (JOC Price Book: reflects the current […]
What’s WRONG with Federal Facilities Mangement?
What’s WRONG with Federal Facilities Mangement
National Security Impacted by Lack of Facilities Lifecycle Management
National Security Impacted by Lack of Facilities Lifecycle Management
The VALUE of Time and Motion Study and Locally Researched Granular Construction Task Data
The value of time and motion study is clear. The process enables the accurate definition of labor, material, and equipment requirements to […]
Sustainable Public Sector Facilities Management – Unattainable?
Sustainable Public Sector Facilities Management is Unattainable if current practices are not fundamentally changed.
Sustainable Facilities Management Solutions
Even though tools and services are readily available to consistently deliver quality, on time and on budget repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build outcomes, real property owners and facilities management professionals have yet to adopt system thinking. Until this occurs, sustainable facilities management solutions will remain on the shelf.
OpenJOC(TM) LEAN Job Order Contracting
LEAN Job Order Contracting integrates system thinking within organizations to drive best value outcomes.
System Thinking for FM and Construction
The application of system thinking to facilities management (FM) and the AECOO sector, and associated tools and support processes is critical to sustainability.
Construction Costs – Market Update
Construction Costs – Market Update 2022-2023
The FOUR Primary Failure Points associated with Facilities Management and Construction.
FOUR Primary Failure Points associated with Facilities Management and Construction are Real property owner leadership, competency, accountability, and commitment
Robust process – Failure to integrate internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams within a consistent, programmatic framework with associated workflows and supporting tools.
Common data environment – A shared glossary of terms and definitions as well as granular task data organized using standard data architectures is needed to enable technical and financial communication and support collaboration.
Proper leverage of technology – Technology should enable people and process and not dictate process. In short, technology should embed robust processes and support associated consistent, lower cost deployment, oversight, and continuous improvement.
No.1 Reason Why 70% of capital projects are late, over budget, or both!
No.1 Reason Why 70% of capital projects are late, over budget, or both!
LEAN Construction Delivery 2023 – A WHITE PAPER
LEAN Construction Delivery 2023 can significantly improve quality, productivity, and overall levels of satisfaction for all participants and stakeholders.
Significant Improvement of Evaluation and Maintenance of Building Infrastructure – Public Sector
Significant Improvement of Evaluation and Maintenance of Building Infrastructure required accelerated adoption of readily available robust programmatic tools and support services that analyze and reduce both risk and cost .
Rethink Preventive Maintenance – Lower costs 30%-40% while extending system life up to 10x
In today’s economic environment it may be time to rethink Preventive Maintenance, lower costs 30%-40%, and extend system life up to 10x.
Validating FM Decisions with Verifiable Cost Data
Validating FM decisions with verifiable cost data is critical, yet rarely practiced.
FM Sustainability Regulation
January 2023 two climate requirements for new construction entered into force in the Building Regulations. If you are going to build a […]
FM’s LACK OF A BoK
Facilities Management and the full AECOO community have a fundamental flaw that is solely responsible for rampant economic and environmental waste; the lack of body of knowledge (BOK or BoK), the complete set of concepts, terms and activities that make up a professional domain.
Why Technology Won’t Help Construction or Facilities Management and their LEGACY OF WASTE
Technology Won’t Help Construction’s and Facilities Management’s Legacy of WASTE simply because technology simply automates existing processes. ERP, CMMS, IWMS, even BIM […]
A Transformative Approach to Construction Project Management
A Transformative Approach to Construction Project Management that enables the consistent delivery of quality outcomes on time and on budget has been […]
FACT CHECK: LEAN Construction and BIM are not the same
LEAN Construction and BIM are not the same, yet many have this misconception.
Understanding Efficient Facilities Stewardship – Unpeeling the ONION
Understanding Efficient Facilities Stewardship requires
STAKEHOLDER CONTINUOUS PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT – A Prerequisite for Efficient Facilities Management
Facilities STAKEHOLDER CONTINUOUS PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT are required to assure quality, on time, on budget outcomes.
Mitigating Uncertainty in Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Builds
Mitigating Uncertainty in Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Builds is a proven way to reduce waste and consistently deliver quality outcomes on time and on budget.
Facilities Management & Uncertainty
Uncertainty – The inability to foretell consequences or outcomes because of a lack knowledge or basis on which to make any predictions […]
Traditional Facilities Maintenance Approaches Are FAILING
Traditional Facilities Maintenance Approaches Are FAILING due to… 1.) reactive nature 2.) lack of cost visibility and cost management capability, 3. Failure of CMMS technology to deliver significant benefit.
BEHAVIORS drive Facilities Management Outcomes – Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, or New Builds
BEHAVIORS drive Facilities Management Outcomes for Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, or New Builds.
Improving Facilities Management Outcomes REQUIRES LEADERSHIP
Improving Facilities Management Outcomes REQUIRES LEADERSHIP. LEADERS must ENABLE people doing the work to leverage their expertise to contribute to problem solving and continuously improve daily activities and processes.
Robust Facilities Sustainment Solution
A robust facilities sustainment solution is critical to any real property owner.
All things JOC – Job Order Contracting
All things JOC – Job Order Contracting. Structuring a best value JOC Program requires far more than getting a certification, buying software, or hiring a ‘JOC consultant”.
Primary Lesson for FMers and Real Property Owners
Primary Lesson for FMers and Real Property Owners, the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects on time and on budget is quite simple
A Relationship-based Approach to Sustainable Facilities Management
A Relationship-based Approach to Sustainable Facilities Management is needed to meet current and emerging economic and environmental requirements.
Best Value / LEAN Construction and LEAN Production are NOT the Same
est Value / LEAN Construction and LEAN Production are not the same.
Best value / Lean construction is an integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery process that uses robust workflows, a common data environment, and collaborative teams to increase productivity, profits, and innovation in the industry. The terms “Best Value” and “LEAN” can be used interchangeably.
OpenBUILD(TM) The ONLY Construction Integrated Project Delivery Solution with Locally Researched Cost Visibility
OpenBUILD(TM) is The ONLY Construction Integrated Project Delivery Solution with Locally Researched Cost Visibility with Program Management
Too little, too late? FEDERAL BUILDING PERFORMANCE STANDARD December 2022
FEDERAL BUILDING PERFORMANCE STANDARD
PROVEN FORMULA FOR EFFICIENT FACILITIES Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Construction
PROVEN FORMULA FOR EFFICIENT FACILITIES Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Construction
Physical Asset Management Optimization: People, Processes, Information, and Technology
Physical Asset Management Optimization: People, Processes, Information, and Technology
Objective and Defensible Facility Conditions Assessment – Critical, but rarely practiced
An objective and defensible facilities conditions assessment is critical to efficient management of any facilities portfolio. Unfortunately, the data obtained in most assessments is not presented in a manner to rely upon associated costs for deferred maintenance, or in a manny to enable integration into efficient, robust, and integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery activities
Why Job Order Contracting was developed
Why Job Order Contracting was developed.
Job Order Contracting (JOC), an alternative to the sealed bid method of procuring facility construction and repair services, was developed by the Federal Government in the 1980s to reduce the processing time and administrative effort required for smaller construction jobs (Source).
How to better incorporate cost data into capital facility planning
To better incorporate cost data into capital facility planning requires a robust actionable local market database.
Traditional Facilities Construction Cost Management Failure – Repair, Reno, Maintenance, and New Builds
Traditional Facilities Construction Cost Management Failure – Repair, Reno, Maintenance, and New Builds failure is prevalent
What’s WRONG with LEAN Construction?
What’s WRONG with LEAN Construction?
A Real Property Owner’s Guide to Improving Construction Productivity
A Real Property Owner’s Guide to Improving Construction Productivity enables measurable improvement in facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build efficiency involves strengthening the focus on implementation. A critical aspect involves balancing standardization of activities and information with empowering those doing the work on site.
Improving Facilities Sustainment Outcomes
Improving facilities sustainment outcomes is critical to meeting mission, environment, and financial requirements. Sustainment includes all maintenance and repair activities necessary to keep an inventory of facilities in good working order. It includes regularly scheduled adjustments and inspections, preventive maintenance tasks, and emergency response and service calls for repairs.
LEAN Job Order Contracting
LEAN Job Order Contracting is the process of integrating planning, procurement, and project delivery for physical infrastructure repair, renovation, maintenance, or new builds, across disparate internal and external teams, within a common data environment (CDE) to consistently enable quality, on time and on budget outcomes.
MANAGE Construction, Repair, and Renovation projects by EMPOWERING teams –
MANAGE Construction, Repair, and Renovation projects by EMPOWERING internal and external teams to plan, procure, and execute projects collaboratively on an early and ongoing basis, while also ensuring a detailed, clearly communicated, and verifiable cost and technical scope of work.
Begin to Improve Facilities Management Today
Improve Facilities Management by implementing change. Change that will result in significant improvement in all repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build activities and outcomes.
JOC Regulatory Landscape
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Productive Job Order Contracting
Productive Job Order Contracting provides cost visibility and transparency, and can be deployed at a 10x savings versus traditional offerings.
LEAN Construction Framework – A Robust Solution fully supported by tools and services
An introduction to a LEAN Construction Framework – A Robust Solution fully supported by tools and services. Efficient, balanced, and collaborative Integrated […]
Facilitating BEST VALUE OUTCOMES in the built asset industry through robust PROCESS and collaboration.
Facilitating BEST VALUE OUTCOMES in the built asset industry
Valid construction estimates
Valid construction estimates are critical to efficient construction project management and best value outcomes.
Selecting JOC Contractors
Selecting JOC Contractors involves more than simply reviewing their coefficients/bid factors.
When considering JOC Contractors, remember you are investing to assure a long term, mutually beneficial relationship.
Integrate Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery – An Efficient Approach to Facilities Sustainment
Integrate Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery – A Efficient Approach to Facilities Sustainment
A Solid Construction Project Delivery Framework to better address the complex problems of planning, procurement, and new builds.
A Solid Construction Project Delivery Framework to better address the complex problems of planning, procurement, and new builds.
Effective Strategies to Improve Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Build Outcomes
The fundamental requirements for achieving adequate cost management with respect to physical infrastructure sustainment and new construction are shown below. Tools and […]
The lack of a basic framework for the construction of facilities
The lack of a basic framework for the construction of facilities is the fundamental cause of rampant environmental and economic waste. The […]
ISO 50001-based energy management system
ISO 50001-based energy management system is flawed and will provide little benefit with respect to the environment or cost management
WBS-Work Breakdown Structure Matters
WBS-Work Breakdown Structure Matters for every repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds. Terms and hierarchy are critical. WBS is significantly enhanced by […]
Rethink your JOC Program
Rethink your JOC Program to achieve optimal outcomes and full compliance in concert with public sector stewardship.
Rethinking Construction Cost Data and Improving Outcomes
Rethinking construction cost data is the first step towards improving repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build outcomes.
Public Sector Facilities Project Cost Management
Public Sector Facilities Project Cost Management is required to address traditionally elevated levels of economic and environmental waste. The good news is that robust solutions are readily available to enable the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction projects on time and on budget.
The bad news is that continuous, competent leadership is required that understands that change from current ‘ad hoc’ as wasteful practices is required.
Nonresidential Construction Market Update 2022 – Impact of higher financing and project delivery costs
Nonresidential construction DOWN decreased 0.4% in August Largest declines in Highway/street, Water supply and Public Safety Other sectors down include – Commercial, […]
Public Sector Facilities Stewardship and Data-driven Decision Making
Public Sector Facilities Stewardship and Data-driven Decision Making… Possibilities or not?
Principles of Sustainable Construction
Principles of Sustainable Construction
Local Market Construction Cost Data
Local Market Construction Cost Data
Current Construction Cost Data CSI Masterformat
Current Construction Cost Data CSI Masterformat is critical to cost visibility and cost management for both owners and design-builders throughout the repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build planning, procurement, and project delivery life-cycle.
LEAN Job Order Contacting Solution
The 4BT LEAN Job Order Contacting Solution significantly improves quality, project delivery times, and overall outcomes.
Listing of LEAN Construction Practices
Listing of LEAN Construction Practices
Integrity in Public Sector Procurement of Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and Construction Services
Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and Construction Services requires Obtaining the maximum projected value for each dollar of expenditure and ensuring that all purchasing transactions follow all state, local and federal regulation.
Managing Multiple JOC Programs, Contracts, Projects, UPBs, and Workorders
Managing Multiple JOC Programs, Contracts, Projects, UPBs, and Workorders efficiently requires a robust LEAN process and support tools and services.
JOC Program Line-item Estimating
While some degree of unit cost aggregation may be unavoidable, using assemblies or other “less detailed” groupings may adversely impact cost analysis, […]
Comprehensive job order contracting (JOC) system implementation and support services
Comprehensive job order contracting (JOC) system implementation and support services are now available without excessive fees with the 4BT-PEP OpenJOC(TM) Job Order […]
Turnkey JOC Program
The 4BT-PEP is a turnkey JOC Program that delivers the highest performance at the lowest possible administrative cost. 4BT exclusively provides all […]
Built Environment Sustainability – A Critical Need
Built Environment Sustainability is critical to environmental and economic security.
The role of procurement in measurably improving construction productivity
The role of procurement in measurably improving construction productivity is critical to consistent achievement of best value outcomes.
Construction Project Delivery Leadership – Public Sector
Greater focus is required upon Construction Project Delivery Leadership in the public sector. Efficient management of the built environment is critical to […]
Design-Bid-Build (DBB), Design-Build (DB), Construction Management (CM), Design-Build-Operate (DBO), Design-Build-Finance-Operate (DBFO), Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Project Alliancing (PA), Cost Led Procurement (CLP), Integrated Project Insurance (IPI), Two Stage Open Book and Early BIM Partnering (EBP}, LEAN Job Order Contracting (4BT-OpenJOC System)
Design-Bid-Build (DBB), Design-Build (DB), Construction Management (CM), Design-Build-Operate (DBO), Design-Build-Finance-Operate (DBFO), Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Project Alliancing (PA), Cost Led Procurement (CLP), […]
Facilities Maintenance and Repair Goals
Facilities Maintenance and Repair Goals include…
Optimizing asset value
Life-cycle management in concert with organizational mission
Maximization of maintenance and repair cost visibility and cost management
Mitigation of unplanned events
Enhancement of facility user experiences and satisfaction
2022 Job Order Contracting
4BT, founded in 2016, is a certified veteran-owned small business (VOSB), and was founded by JOC program management, technology, and cost data […]
Standardized repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build processes and workflows and continuously improve
Select, define, clarify, and cost all repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds Leverage current, granular, local labor, material, and equipment costs to […]
Root Causes of Construction Project Variability
Here a list of the root causes of construction project variability resulting in 85% of ALL repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds […]
Construction Productivity Solutions
Construction productivity solutions are readily available that integrate planning, procurement, and project delivery to consistently enable on-time, on-budget, quality outcomes with full […]
Improving Public Sector Facilities Life-cycle Management – Hard Questions MUST be asked and ANSWERED!
Improving Public Sector Facilities Life-cycle Management
Learnings from JOC Program Audits and AEC Industry Research
Learnings from JOC Program Audits and AEC Industry Research
LEAN Construction Facts
LEAN Construction Facts are critical to improving productivity, quality, and conserving economic and environmental resources. Integrated project delivery and job order contracting solutions are readily available.
Productive Construction – Traits of Collaboration
Productive construction and collaboration go hand in hand. The traits of collaboration include: co-location commitment multidisciplinary work decision authority productive environment training […]
ATTN: Public Sector Facilities Professionals – Rethink, Reshape, Rebuild Repair, Renovation, and Maintenance Practices to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency
ATTN: Public Sector Facilities Professionals – Rethink, Reshape, Rebuild Repair, Renovation, and Maintenace Practices to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency, Traditional facilities […]
Collaboration in Construction is NOT a CHOICE
Collaboration in construction is not a choice if your goals are consistent quality, on time and on budget repair, renovation, maintenance, and […]
LEAN Capital Project Delivery
LEAN Capital Project Delivery increases efficiency and reduces facilities management costs via the implementation of a robust programmatic process to all repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build requirements,