Best Value Public Sector Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

The Changing Role of Facilities Management and Procurement Professionals

Public sector organizations are undergoing major change. The role of facilities
management and procurement professionals and how they interact with each
other, building users, oversight groups, and with private sector service providers is
rapidly changing in order to meet the “new normal” of full fiduciary transparency
and stewardship and “doing more with less”.
Effective and efficient public-sector facilities management and procurement
professionals openly collaborate internally and with external service providers.
The bar has been raised for levels of management and technical competency,
financial transparency, and regulatory compliance. Waste and maintaining archaic
and inefficient practices are no longer being tolerated by those public entities
engaged leveraging best management practices and attaining improved outcomes.
Client satisfaction and meeting environmental and economic goals are now
requirements.
Construction Delivery Methodology Is a Primary Productivity Driver
The selected construction delivery method impacts the success or failure of
facilities repair, renovation, and construction programs more than any other single
element.
It is the construction delivery method that establishes roles, responsibilities, levels
of shared risk/reward, scheduling, information and reporting requirements, key
performance metrics (KPIs) and sets the overall tone from program/project start to
completion and beyond.
LEAN Construction Delivery Methods, such as Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), for
major new construction, and Job Order Contracting (JOC), for repair, renovation,
and minor new construction, are proven to deliver 90% of projects on-time, on-
budget, and to everyone’s satisfaction. This level of performance is incredible
when compare to the fact that only 80% of all projects have historically been late,
over budget, and/or mired in legal disputes.
The Future
Despite the availability of training, tools and support for LEAN Construction
Delivery deployment and management, usage to date has been minimal.
For example, fewer than 5% of public sector real property owners use Job Order
Contracting with even fewer leveraging its full benefits. This is especially
troublesome when combined with the fact that 80% of the costs of any structure
reside in renovation, repair, maintenance, and operations versus new construction.
In order for significant and sorely needed productivity improvement to occur,
widespread and accelerated gains in leadership and competency are needed. This
likely involves changes in types, formats, and requirements associated with formal
and professional education
A new landscape of ongoing training and continuous improvement is on the
horizon to fuel the demand for greater efficiencies in labor, capital and resources,
including an integrated framework for achieving productive outcomes across the
design, build, finance, procurement, and operate stages of a facilities
management.
Learn More About LEAN Job Order Contracting…
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Learn How to Set Up a JOC Program…
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