Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the administrative burden required for sustainable facilities management must be reduced as staffing levels continue to fall. Value generation in public sector facilities management is now a mandate as elevated levels of waste are no longer sustainable. Step 2: Follow a Robust Workflow for ALL Projects.

Management 217

Management CSI Budgeting Budget 217

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Keeping up with the growing backlog of facility renovation, repair, sustainability, and maintenance is a never ending challenge for colleges and universities. Knowledge of efficient life-cycle management of the built environment, supported by LEAN construction delivery, and enabling technology is not. It’s time to change this.

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Education Renovating Management Life Cycle 100

Construction Specifier

JUNE 4, 2020

Recent developments in virtual reality (VR) technology allow for the visualization of unbuilt information as full-scale occupiable environments, providing previously unavailable insight to designers, clients, and other stakeholders. The design team used dedicated software to translate the BIM model into a VR-friendly environment.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Design Visualization Modeling 52

BD+C

JULY 25, 2023

Sergio Lechuga, CID Healthcare Facilities Designers Architects AEC Tech Interior Architecture Resiliency Welcome to HMC Architects’ Five in Focus blog series, where we explore the latest trends, ideas, and innovations shaping the future of architecture and design.

Design 98

Design Environment Los Angeles Education 98

Natural Building

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Earlier this month I participated in a webinar titled Designing Highly-Sustainable Buildings featuring the Sketchup software team, along with Sefaira, a plugin that calculates various aspects of energy use pertaining to the design. The post Designing Highly-Sustainable Buildings appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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Sustainability Design Sketchup Iowa 52

Construction Specifier

MAY 25, 2020

These designs are becoming bolder, incorporating changing technologies as well as addressing new approaches like collaborative environments and ‘resimercial’ design. As a result, institutional spaces are often site-specific in terms of architecture and design. Specifiers need to think about every component of the built environment.

Education 52

Education Environment Visualization Design 52

Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When specifying flooring, one should consider both sustainability and performance. These factors not only contribute to the sustainability of the flooring, but how it performs. These factors not only contribute to the sustainability of the flooring, but how it performs. Even sustainably made floors must be installed correctly.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Certification Green Products 52

BD+C

APRIL 20, 2023

13 trends, technologies, and strategies to expect in 2023 0 qpurcell Thu, 04/20/2023 - 08:21 Sustainability Biophilic design, microgrids, and decarbonization—these are three of the trends, technologies, and strategies IMEG’s market and service leaders believe are poised to have a growing impact on the built environment.

Education 98

Education Environment Green Organization 98

Natural Building

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Many architects thought of joining this movement of making only sustainable, highly energy-efficient buildings, but it mostly remained a romantic vision. The young architect duo Areen Attari and Shahveer Irani of Mumbai say, “We base our house designs on the surrounding environs.” None of them have inherited the trade.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Housing Architecture Concrete 52

Natural Building

MAY 6, 2020

Gauri Satam and Tejesh Patil have joined forces to found unTAG, a Mumbai-based architectural and interior design firm that believes in building sustainable homes. They have worked on around 40 environmentally and economically sustainable projects so far. “As Tejesh Patil has always been fascinated by energy-efficient designs.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Housing Materials Electrical 52

BD+C

APRIL 22, 2013

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2013 National Convention and Design Exposition in Denver.

Green 107

Green AIA Denver Education 107

ENR Construction

MARCH 26, 2020

New York City-based practitioner, 71, was a distinctive voice for social justice and sustainability in design of the urban environment.

New York City 36

New York City New York Education Architecture 36

BD+C

MAY 25, 2023

K-12 Schools School Construction Architects Daylighting Daylighting Designs Energy Efficiency Energy-Efficient Design Projects Sustainability Less than a year after its opening last September, The AIA has recognized the new Boston Arts Academy with an Education Facility Design Award for its state-of-the-art learning environment.

Education 52

Education Boston Environment Sustainability 52

BD+C

JULY 6, 2023

As we look at the benefits of transforming historic buildings, it’s vital to consider three factors: authenticity, environmental sustainability, and cultural inheritance. Harvard Graduate School of Education | Gutman Conference Center. The hard costs of construction unfortunately do not consider the external burden on our environment.

Conference 52

Conference AIA Education Houston 52

Natural Building

AUGUST 3, 2020

Professor Janis Birkeland is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne who has taught sustainable planning and architecture at several universities. Previously, she worked as a planner, architect, and lawyer in San Francisco to gain insights into the impediments to sustainability. Is this really progress?

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Green Life Cycle Design 52

Job Order Contracting

MAY 8, 2017

This simply cannot occur until Owners become competent in Collaborative LEAN Construction Delivery Methods and associated life-cycle management of the built environment. Thus the issue is not the unavailability of solutions, but rather the level of education and awareness across the AECOO sector.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Environment Procurement 100

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 10, 2019

Much has been documented about how AECOO (architecture, engineering, construction, owner, operator) sector has been technology adverse when compared to manufacturing, healthcare, education, and virtually every other public and private category. Owner Leadership and LEAN Construction Procurement and Project Delivery Save Time and Money.

Procurement 100

Procurement Life Cycle Legal Mobility 100

SAB Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2017

Although we have known for a long time that Canadians spend over 90% of their time indoors, only recently have we consciously begun to design environments that not only meet health and safety regulations, but also actually improve occupant health and wellbeing.

Education 49

Education Regulation Environment Safety 49

Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 14, 2016

I do not claim any particular business marketing prowess, but Greenbuild has been the number one source of new clients for my sustainability and green building law practice! And Greenbuild is sustainable. Greenbuild 2016 in LA will be “the” target rich environment for green people this year.

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Green Los Angeles DC Sustainability 192

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The path to improvement has been available for nearly 30 years… collaborative LEAN construction delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery, IPD (for major new construction) and Job Order Contracting, JOC (for renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction).

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Management Construction Budgeting 100

BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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.

Procurement 52

Procurement Life Cycle Construction Materials 52

Natural Building

AUGUST 18, 2010

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. New Expert Panelist on Green Education. Green is Now, Sustainability is the Future.

Green 45

Green Sustainability Architecture United States 45

Job Order Contracting

JULY 31, 2020

While the issues of low productivity and associated economic and environmental waste associated with constructing and sustaining built structures has been well documented, education and training relative to existing solutions has been insufficient. PROCESS VERSUS TECHNOLOGY. INTEGRATED PLANNING, PROCUREMENT, AND PROJECT DELIVERY.

Contract 158

Contract Procurement Construction BIM 158

Natural Building

MARCH 29, 2011

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. New Expert Panelist on Green Education. View my complete profile. HyperAdobe.

Green 61

Green Sustainability Architecture Travel 61

Natural Building

APRIL 14, 2021

Lingro Permaculture Eco Retreat, located in Uttarakhand, is a permaculture based sustainable community living and educational center. Their vision is both conserving the culture and protecting the environment. The Vinyasa Dance Ashram is spread over a large area on the outskirts of Jaipur.

Sustainability 98

Sustainability Education Electrical Architecture 98

Autodesk Construction Cloud

MAY 9, 2023

As part of the Insider program, he’ll write about digital transformation and sustainability. Tell me about yourself and what you specialize in?  I have been in the AEC industry for over 20 years, leveraging my expertise in architecture, construction, engineering, and technology in novel ways. Want to get to know him?

Innovation 52

Innovation Office Construction IDEA 52

BD+C

APRIL 23, 2014

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and ecological design projects that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2014 National Convention and Design Exposition in Chicago.

AIA 45

AIA Green Education Chicago 45

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 23, 2019

The path forward for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner, and Operator sector is to move away failed traditional planning, procurement, and construction delivery methods that are confrontational, risks averse and lacking value, vision, verification and accountability.

Procurement 100

Procurement Contract Architecture Risk 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 9, 2017

In short, consistency in process deployment is critical and can easily live within an environment of continuous improvement. Ongoing education and training. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Ongoing education and training. Core Aspects of LEANconstruction. Collaboration. Shared risk/reward.

Procurement 100

Procurement Life Cycle Education Organization 100

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Over the past few years real property owners are being pressured more than ever to transition sustainable economic and environmental facilities management policies and programs. Many commercial real property owners and facilities managers will require building competencies in all aspects of built environment life-cycle management.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Change Orders Procurement 100

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 30, 2022

Organizations that provide leadership and commitment to collaborative environments are rare. Common data environment (glossary of terms and definitions, locally researched detailed unit price cost data). Partnering in a unit price environment. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 19(4), 342-368.

Construction 223

Construction Project Management Engineering Management 223

Natural Building

MARCH 22, 2009

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Sustainable Communities and For The Greener Good. View my complete profile.

Green 40

Green Sustainability Architecture North Carolina 40

Job Order Contracting

MAY 1, 2019

A LEAN procurement and construction delivery method is a proven framework for the consistent delivery of quality facilities and other physical infrastructure repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects on-time, on-budget , and to the mutual satisfaction of all participants and stakeholders.

Procurement 100

Procurement Construction Renovating Contract 100

Natural Building

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A crew of students from the Yale School of Architecture has assembled the wooden frame of a one-story building on Horse Island, a 17-acre property off the coast of Branford, Connecticut. Photo credit: Laura Pappalardo/Yale School of Architecture. Photo credit: Laura Pappalardo/Yale School of Architecture.

Architecture 52

Architecture Connecticut Design Resource 52

Pro Builder

APRIL 28, 2021

Clark Construction, LLC, Indigo Architecture & Interiors, and Nudura all collaborated to bring Roost to life, from ideation to execution. Because the Client and Architect wanted Roost to be the product of thoughtful design, the homes had to be constructed with materials that were beneficial to both the residents and the environment.

Design 69

Design Concrete Materials US 69

Natural Building

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Less energy consumption means doing better since it’s like doing our environment a favor.

Green 40

Green Electrical Sustainability Architecture 40

Natural Building

JULY 27, 2008

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Tulou Chinese Architecture. View my complete profile. Strawboard Panels. Timber Framing.

Architecture 53

Architecture Sustainability Green Defense 53