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California Embodied Carbon Legislation: How to Prepare for AB 2446

Stok

Some exciting news coming out of California means big things for Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), which analyze a product’s full life cycle environmental impacts and identify prioritized areas for carbon reduction. Available embodied carbon resources are listed in the AIA-CLF Embodied Carbon Toolkit. #2:

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The growing demand for transparency in buildings

Construction Specifier

A high-performance building is one that “integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficiency, durability, life-cycle performance, and occupant productivity.”

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Some useful seminars on construction estimating from RSMeans

Construction Cost Estimating

The educational programs cover a wide array of topics ranging from advanced Project Management and Life Cycle Costing for Facilities. The educational programs provided by the RSMeans adhere to the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems (AIA/CES) and AACE International Certification Board.

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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

by Jane Rohde, AIA, FIIDA, ASID, ACHA, CHID, LEED AP BD+C, GGA-EB, GGF. At the Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) the author created an American Institute of Architects (AIA) approved continuing education unit (CEU) “Resilient Flooring & Materiality—Transparency, Product Service Life & Performance.”

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BIM Glossary Terms and Definitions – NBIMS-US – 2013

Building Information Management

As such it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle from inception onwards. BIM Life-Cycle Views. IFC Certification Procedure (IFC 4×4**). In 2010 buildingSMART developed the new IFC Certification 2.0

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Steve received his Certificate of Management – Building Information Modeling from the AGC in 2011. 10:00 – 11:30 AM AIA TAP. from Stanford University. Kimon Onuma , Onuma, Inc.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Steve received his Certificate of Management – Building Information Modeling from the AGC in 2011. 10:00 – 11:30 AM AIA TAP. from Stanford University. Kimon Onuma , Onuma, Inc.

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