What is Lens?
During preconstruction, we aim to build trust and collaborative partnerships leveraging lean management practices like Target Value Delivery (TVD) as well as an integrated group of resources. Among these resources is Lens, JE Dunn Construction’s proprietary suite of preconstruction tools designed to help teams align expectations, develop an accurate schedule and budget, and confidently make decisions driven by reliable data.
Who benefits from using Lens?
- Clients
- Design Partners
- Trade Partners
- Estimators
What is included in the Lens suite of tools?
Each tool informs the design process with accurate and timely information. Having more context and detailed information empowers our clients to feel confident making decisions and helps our teams deliver an innovative approach to the traditional preconstruction process. Our suite of preconstruction tools include:
- Search is a detailed digital cost history database that provides accessible and engaging historical cost information that assists in setting early foundational cost expectation ranges. With more than 1,600 JE Dunn projects in its database, teams can use Search to quickly cost benchmark a proposed project.
- Align is an award-winning project budget target setting tool that utilizes historical costs and reference photos to establish an accurate target budget for a client’s specific project. As part of JE Dunn’s collaborative TVD process, teams use Align to discuss and develop an accurate target budget to guide early design and preconstruction efforts.
- Aim is a proprietary estimating platform that creates detailed, evolving cost estimates with insights-driven data from concept to completion. The platform is built on more than 20,000 algorithms, engineering formulas, code calculations, and industry metrics to deliver accurate estimates at the earliest stages of programming and conceptual design.
- Focus is a BIM-enabled takeoff platform that allows a project’s native design model to be directly tied to cost. Focus provides immediate visualization and confirmation of scope, cost, and design to support a true continuous estimating approach to preconstruction.
