Gordian’s Building Intelligence™ Solutions help organizations successfully budget, build and maintain capital intensive assets. Decision makers, operators and project leaders partner with Gordian to deliver on the promise of better communities.
For 34 years, Gordian has helped organizations budget, build and maintain their capital-intensive physical assets. From highways and bridges to hospitals and lecture halls, Gordian delivers results for the people responsible for maintaining the critical facilities and infrastructure North America and the UK relies on by providing accurate insights, robust technology and comprehensive expertise across the building lifecycle.
Gordian’s road to success began with a man named Harry Mellon. Mellon, then working for NATO, felt frustrated at the amount of time and administrative effort required to complete routine, operational construction projects. Known for his action and ingenuity, Mellon created a new method for procuring construction work, Job Order Contracting (JOC).
Job Order Contracting is a unique process where many projects can be completed with one competitively awarded contract. Here’s how it works. Gordian researches and verifies local construction costs and publishes them in a Unit Price Book (UBP), which Gordian calls a Construction Task Catalog (CTC).
Area contractors then bid a cost multiplier called an Adjustment Factor on the costs in the CTC, ensuring project owners pay a fair market value and contractors are compensated fairly for their work. This single-solicitation project delivery method accelerates time to construction by as much as 25% by satisfying procurement regulations upfront and eliminating the necessity of protracted price negotiations.
Wanting to provide other organizations with the proven benefits of JOC, Mellon founded Gordian in 1990. Since then, the streamlined construction procurement method has been used to complete countless projects of all scopes and sizes – more than 33,000 in 2023 alone. Gordian has continued to expand its portfolio of solutions through innovation and acquisition.
The company acquired RSMeans™ Data, North America’s most trusted construction cost database in 2014. A reliable source of truth for estimators, architects and construction executives, these incomparably accurate construction costs now act as the bedrock of all Gordian capabilities. Over the years, Gordian has acquired and developed cutting-edge facilities assessment and capital planning solutions that clearly demonstrate asset conditions and the outcomes of funding scenarios so organizations can make informed capital investments.
Gordian excels at helping its customers streamline construction procurement, maximize facilities planning efforts and optimize their assets. With the recent launch of the Gordian Cloud Platform, Gordian’s customers have the power to integrate planning, estimating and procurement capabilities in a single application powered by RSMeans Data. This unified user experience connects workflows across the building lifecycle. These workflows, in turn, are enhanced with automation and insights, ultimately ensuring optimal decision making in project selection, budgeting and execution.
Gordian has undertaken all this innovation and development in service of building better communities. Gordian’s Building Intelligence™ solutions have been used to remodel 1,100 public housing units in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, build a campus providing wraparound services to the unhoused population in Victorville, California, secure a $350 million bond for a Colorado school district and estimate hurricane recovery costs for FEMA. Their customers have the data and tools to make better decisions, run better projects and deliver better outcomes for all.
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