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Sustainable Facilities Management Solutions

Job Order Contracting

Sustainable Facilities Management will require a fundamental change in mindset. What is system thinking? – Simple, it’s the process of considering the whole and how the all the associated parts, people, actions, resources interrelate, and discovering ways of improvement. Time for real change?

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How to Efficiently Manage Dynamic Projects – The Solution to FM and Construction Waste

Job Order Contracting

– Simple, it’s the process of considering the whole and how the all the associated parts, people, actions, resources interrelate, and discovering ways of improvement. Why does it matter? AECOO = Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owners, Operators) What are the barriers?

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What Will It Take for the Construction Industry to Reduce Carbon Emissions?

Fieldwire

Eco-conscious organizations like the United Nations are developing sustainability targets to reduce adverse ecological effects. It’s one of the largest global polluters — largely because it’s such a resource-intensive and indispensable industry. You must keep sustainability in mind as you construct more buildings.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

BD+C

Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem It's going to take the efforts of government and the private sector to mitigate the climate-damaging problem of embodied carbon, says this building sustainability expert, Brent Trenga.

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System Thinking for FM and Construction

Job Order Contracting

– Simple, it’s the process of considering the whole and how the all the associated parts, people, actions, resources interrelate, and discovering ways of improvement. Why does it matter? AECOO = Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owners, Operators) What are the barriers?

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You Need to Review a SITES Scorecard, Now

Green Building Law Update

SITES is a sustainable landscape rating system. And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., SITES v2 is a voluntary set of guidelines and performance benchmarks to assess the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of sustainable landscapes.

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You Need to Review a SITES Scorecard, Now

Green Building Law Update

SITES is a sustainable landscape rating system. And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., SITES v2 is a voluntary set of guidelines and performance benchmarks to assess the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of sustainable landscapes.

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