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For people who manage facilities, tracking data about the care of physical assets is standard practice. But how data is tracked and what is done with it remains inconsistent. Discover what benchmarking and data analysis can do for facilities in this blog post.

Battling budgets, ticking timelines and expanding to-do lists⁠—sounds like you’re on American Ninja Warrior: Construction Procurement Edition. It’s no simple feat to get essential construction projects completed with these challenges—but Job Order Contracting (JOC) can help.

College and university campuses across North America have buildings and systems that are well overdue for renewal leading to . Unfortunately, many institutions don’t have the resources needed to overcome underinvestment into aging facilities.

Our webinar in partnership with Building Design + Construction magazine taught attendees the importance of accurate construction cost data to the value engineering process. Read the panel’s answers to webinar attendee questions regarding the use and best practices of value engineering and construction cost data.

For a construction estimate to be reliable, all items must be accounted for. But what does “all items” mean? What types of costs do you need to estimate? How can you be sure you’ve included everything? Find out in this blog and download the construction cost estimating checklist.

Construction procurement can be a long and costly process. But it doesn’t have to be. Discover how Gordian’s Job Order Contracting solution was created and how it helps organizations competitively contract repairs, renovations and new construction faster and easier than traditional construction procurement methods.

Whether it’s on stage wailing on the guitar or at the office crunching data numbers, Joe Kelble rocks. In our interview, Joe explains his experience using RSMeans Data, how he maintains his talent for music and why it’s important to stay positive and continuously improve.

Most dangers to military troops are obvious, but some have only recently surfaced—hazardous chemicals in the soil and water supply. Bases affected by PFOS and PFOA can utilize a SABER program backed by contractual pricing to remediate soils and control construction costs.

The sweet spot of efficient construction estimating is in the convergence of cost, accuracy and speed. Here are four critical elements to make sure you have optimal efficiency in your estimating and preconstruction processes.