Best Value: Mastering Your Projects

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (please allow 3 hours)

Event Location:

Rochester, MN

Site to be determined

This seminar will introduce a Best Value Model that allows all participants to win in an environment of efficiency, effectiveness, and measurement. Most project delivery processes transfer risk from one party to another and do not actually reduce or minimize it. Often times, the Facility or Project Manager can not predict if the contractor or service provider will perform (on-time, within budget, and high quality work). Specifications do not always guarantee the performance of the selected contractor. Instead specifications or minimum standards actually forces contractors to lower their level of quality. Contractors are only meeting the standard and not performing above it. Facility/Project Managers do not have enough time to “manage” the “expert”.

Performance measurements need to be simple, logical, and effective in motivating a change of behavior and culture. It can be used to minimize the importance of management, leading to a more efficient, high quality, performing service in any relationship between a buyer and vendor, between vendor and sub-vendor. Don’t complex the simple instead use logic models to simplify the process, create change and continuous improvement. You will learn in this seminar how a client/buyer/facility or project manager can get vendors to think in their behalf by transferring both risk and control, without having to “trust” the vendor.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

- What is Best Value? Why use it? Does it coast more to run?

- Summary overview of the Best Value Process

- Attract performing contractors/vendors, and individuals

- How to lower risk before the project begins

- Minimize change orders

- Stop the finger pointing

- Create a win-win environment

- Ensure all parties are accountable (on schedule, within budget, and high quality work performed)

- Lessons learned / Real world examples

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Facility Managers, Project Managers, Building Owners, Procurement Staff, Engineers, Consultants, Designers, Contractors, and Vendors.

About the Speaker

John Savicky, M.S. is a Program Manager at Arizona State University’s Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG). PBSRG is the worldwide leader in improving construction performance and efficiency. Savicky has been educating the best value implementation at the University of Minnesota the past couple of years. UMN has used best value on 49 projects (18 completed) with a 100% satisfaction (on-time, on-budget, quality work). The technology has been tested over 500 times totaling $1.035Billion ($584M in construction projects and $451M in non-construction projects) with a 98% success rate since 1994.

Registration is Required

RSVP by August 18 to:

Don De Keyrel

don@constructionpartnership.com