Is your facility management team drifting too far toward being reactive? What can you do to operate more proactively?”
Sounds pretty common right?
Sometimes it helps to step back a bit.
Are you reacting to the same types of things over and over?
Are there “fixes” you could implement more broadly to eliminate similar issues?
Are repair / renovation projects considering all aspects of a particular building, and can you apply similar jobs to multiple buildings at the same time?
How recent was a condition assessment done, or updated? Condition-based repair/renovation can go a long way toward proactive facility management.
Are you capturing and reusing previous repair/renovation job estimates for future use to save time and money?
While most people don’t think about how they get their water, it is the mission of every civil engineer plumber to make sure clean water is received, and all water delivery systems are in working order.
Plumbers routinely install, repair and maintain piping, fittings and fixtures involved in the distribution and use of water in a building, but for members of the 43rd Civil Engineer Squadron plumbing flight, it’s more than that.
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4d-5d BIM will support facility management and associated construction projects, however, more efficient construction project delivery methods MUST be linked to your BIM strategy.
Whether integrated with 4d, 5d BIM or stand alone, Job Order Contracting – JOC / SABER – is the standard for facility renovation, repair, and sustainability construction project control and transparency.
Whether you’re in higher education, K-12, state/local government, DOD, or healthcare, the need to increase construction project efficiency has never been greater.
JOC reduces costs and increases quality by fostering collaboration, rewarding performance, and cutting through the archaic, ad-hoc processes associated with traditional DBB (design bid build) and provides additional benefits vs. design build.
From concept, through close-out, proven software www.4Clicks.com available to embed and assure the JOC process and it is populated with an exclusive 400,000 line item extension of the RSMeans cost database. Features and benefits include in the JOC software technology deliver robust performance and “real-time” visibility for managing construction projects, programs, and contracts including JOC, SABER, IDIQ, SATOC, MATOC, MACC, POCA, and BOA. With features including collaboration, cost control, automated technical evaluation, document management and full reporting capabilities.
Project-based organizations within AEC, Commercial, and Public sector industries use e4Clicks to reduce capital construction time and costs. General contractors, sub-contractors, A/E’s and owners owners and public institutions efficiently manage billions of dollars of critical facilities repair, renovation, and sustainability project data in one central software system, where process management best practices are supported. Project team members collaborate to scope projects and avoid potential areas of risk before they impact project delivery performance and cost.
A recent change to FAR 51.1, Contractor Use of Government Supply Sources, may create expanded opportunities for GSA Schedule vendors. The change now permits Prime Federal Contractors to use the GSA Schedule as a source of supply when deemed appropriate for fulfillment of agency requirements. Previously, this was rare and only authorized on cost-plus contracts.
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Sustainability and Green refer to the designing and maintaining the built environment to in concert with economic and ecological needs.
Federal agencies are required to achieve 30% energy and water reductions by 2015 and zero use of fossil fuel by 2030 with schools and municipalities facing similar requirements.
JOC (Job Order Contracting) and SABER (Air Force equivalent of JOC) are optimal methods for efficiently planning, bidding, and executing sustainability projects with the funding available from billions of dollars via the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Many “green” projects, however, suffer from poor planning and costly paperwork/contract document and project management issues largely associated with outdated contracting methods.
JOC offers a remedy for EB (existing buildings) / LEED EB green renovation projects.
JOC allows the owner and contractor to work together from the beginning, scoping the project, and developing the plans, specifications and requirements to complete the sustainability / green renovation, repair or minor construction projects, on time and within the approved budget. If owners decide to go the LEED® certification route, they can review current conditions with contractors and discuss construction concerns and associated remedies to reach established targets – up-front – with a firm fixed price for each delivery order, prior to issuing a notice to proceed.
