Job Order Contracting Best Practices: Project Selection
JOC is not the right delivery method for every project. Selecting the right construction work for JOC will help make your program a success.
Blog: Procurement
8 Sustainable Construction Techniques: How You Build is as Important as What You Build
For every 100 pounds of construction material brought to the site, 30 of it will be wasted. This creates enormous pressure to recycle, reuse and repurpose wherever possible. Here are eight sustainable construction techniques to help you reduce waste in your building processes.
Designing Flexible Medical Care Facilities
Medical care facilities were designed with “normal” care business in mind. They were certainly not designed with the flexibility needed to treat pandemic patients. So let’s examine a few ways healthcare facilities leaders can create facilities flexibility.
Materials Make the Difference: 5 Parameters to Help You Select Green Construction Materials
Selecting the right green construction materials can be difficult. It’s hard to know which ones truly follow sustainable practices from their raw state to the supply shelf. As you consider materials, examine the process required to get to that end-state material along these five parameters.
Celebrating Public Procurement Professionals
To celebrate Procurement Month, Gordian shares insights from our team and one of our partners, Tammy Rimes of National Cooperative Procurement Partners (NCPP). We’re honored to work alongside public purchasing and procurement professionals in their efforts to build and maintain safe and reliable community spaces.
Value-Based Construction: What It Means for Healthcare
Value-based construction is the idea of applying value-based care principles to the way healthcare systems contract and complete construction work to help healthcare systems control costs, maintain and improve facility performance and deliver quality care through collaboration and data.
Roads, Roofs and Rainwater: LEED’ing on the Path to Sustainable Construction and Design
Achieving sustainability begins with innovative design that embeds resource utilization and responsibility in every part of the building and construction lifecycle. Fortunately, Gordian has tons of experience helping our clients procure and provision sustainable construction projects and services.
Job Order Contracting Best Practices: 7 Tips for a Successful Joint Scope Meeting
Before your next Job Order Contracting project, read this for proven and practical advice for conducting a thorough Joint Scope Meeting.
JOC Best Practices: 12 Key Terms for Job Order Contracting
Job Order Contracting (JOC) has been helping streamline construction project delivery for decades. And like any formalized process, JOC has its own terminology. We put together a list of terms to know during JOC program implementation and project execution.
Healthcare Heroes: Mitigating Risk in the Wake of Disaster
When emergencies strike, healthcare providers shine by caring for those affected. But what if healthcare facilities are damaged in a disaster? How might that affect patient care? Read this to learn how mitigating risk and recover quickly from disaster.
