Preventive Maintenance and Life Cycle Costing
Recently our very own David Lewek, Principal Consulting Engineer at RSMeans, had an article published online at Facility Executive magazine.
Blog: Trends And Insights
Painless Price Proposal Review: 12 Questions to Ask
Keith Greene has reviewed hundreds of Price Proposals in his 30+ years of experience with Job Order Contracting. He suggests these tips, along with 12 key questions to ask while reviewing to make Price Proposal Review a painless process.
Contractor Notes for Building a Defendable Price Proposal
Here are five tips for building a defendable Price Proposal; one that stands up to audits, eliminates confusion and lays out the project to expedite those next steps.
Government Purchasing: When Contractor Performance Matters
State and local governments would benefit best from a method that drives contractors to perform well on construction projects, and helps purchasing officers track performance over time. This method exists and many use it successfully today.
Futuristic Building Trends
Technology resides in a perpetual state of evolution. The most up-to-date technology of the now will inevitably be surpassed, if not tomorrow, then soon. Below is a list of some current technologies that may seem pulled from the pages of science fiction but are in fact very real.
5 Trends in Public Procurement
In the recent webinar Procurement Secrets of High-Performing Local Governments, David Yarkin discussed five trends he's seen in public procurement.
Cooperative Purchasing Saves Time, Adds Value
Cooperative purchasing is a go-to procurement method for state and local governments and educational institutions because of the time savings for procurement organizations.
JOC: More Control Than a Time & Materials Contract
Here are three ways in which construction project owners retain more control by using Job Order Contracting than a Time & Materials Contract.
Just Trust Me: Building Trust in a Competitive Construction Market
Job Order Contracting is built on a strong foundation of trust between project owners and contractors.
Facility Life Cycle Costs with RSMeans Part 2
Comparison Of Buildings
To illustrate a comparison of buildings, the publicly available dataset was again used to develop 5 life cycle cost models that were created in a similar manner as previously described.
To illustrate a comparison of buildings, the publicly available dataset was again used to develop 5 life cycle cost models that were created in a similar manner as previously described.
