BD+C

DECEMBER 14, 2023

He has guided the sustainability process on over 30 million square feet of projects across many different building types and sizes, including K-12 schools, higher education facilities, mid-rise and high-rise residential, commercial interiors, retail interiors, and commercial office buildings.

Sustainability 105

Sustainability Life Cycle Commissioning Construction 105

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Revamp talent recruitment and development with a focus upon building collaboration, leadership, and overall life-cycle management competencies. Engage in ongoing education and training. Leverage common terms, definitions, and data architectures. ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Contract BIM 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 20, 2017

Every architecture, engineering, and construction management and/or facilities management school would benefit themselves and the AECOO industry by having LEAN Construction Institute. (AECOO = Architecture, Engineering, Construction ,Operations, Owner). Best Value Procurement. Continuous Education, Training, & Improvement.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Procurement Architecture 100

Building Information Management

MARCH 19, 2013

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges.

Life Cycle 53

Life Cycle Management BIM Engineering 53

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Traditional construction procurement and construction delivery methods, as well as ‘ad hoc’ daily facility management operations are unreliable and costly. 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

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

MARCH 9, 2017

Best value procurement and execution. Ongoing education and training. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Engage in best value procurement. Capital Renewal – Major repairs and cyclical replacement of building systems/components versus established building life-time (50 years, 100 years). Procedures.

Procurement 100

Procurement Life Cycle Education Organization 100

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 10, 2021

While there has been a fair amount written about Lean principles, actual application in the form of an integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methodology has been limited to 5% or less actual work. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 8 (4,), 292-303. References: Abdelhamid, T.

Construction 164

Construction Procurement Contract Management 164

BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

San Francisco International Airport used Kingspan’s Designwall 2000 insulated metal panels to create an architectural look for its Consolidated Administration Campus. This is the first time the federal government is prioritizing the use of American-made, lower-carbon construction materials in federal procurement and federally funded projects.

Procurement 52

Procurement Life Cycle Construction Materials 52

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Promoting awareness and education of LEAN O&M best management practices leads to improved outcomes. Procurement/bidding. Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers. Strategic planning.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Education Management Plans 100

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 25, 2017

Architectural/Engineering service levels. JOC Unit Price Book – Type, Data Architecture (CSI Masterformat), update strategy. Overall procurement strategy. ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management. Job Order Contracting – A Procurement Success Story, 1998. Performance bond and size.

Contract 100

Contract Life Cycle BIM Procurement 100

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 26, 2017

Education, Training, and Support Services. Appropriate decision-support tools and services (technology, data, and consulting/education/support) must be included to enable consideration of life-cycle costs and financial resource prioritization. It’s a sector-wide lack of awareness and education. Procurement/bidding.

Management 100

Management Life Cycle Education Organization 100

Building Information Management

OCTOBER 16, 2012

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment support by digital technology. Poor life-cycle management knowledge transfer. Cloud computing uniquely addresses all of these important issues. Additionally real-time, multi-point collaborative access is securely enabled by cloud computing.

BIM 66

BIM Life Cycle Architecture Modeling 66

Building Information Management

JUNE 20, 2016

Best Value Procurement. Standardized & Common Terms, Definitions, and Data Architectures. Life-cycle costing versus First-cost approach. Continuous Education, Training, and Improvement. Collaborative LEAN Construction Delivery – Integrated Project Delivery -IPD, Job Order Contracting – JOC, etc.

Management 40

Management Life Cycle Procurement Education 40

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 21, 2017

It some markets, one be might surprised to learn that a Job Contract Source Evaluation Plan is either not used, or is basically a simple modification of a typical procurement process. Common terms, definitions, and standard data architectures. Gaining a life-cycle / total-cost-of-ownership perspective versus first-cost mentality.

Contract 100

Contract Plans Subcontracting Life Cycle 100

Building Information Management

JUNE 13, 2016

Life-cycle versus first-cost perspective. Value-based procurement. Common terms, definitions, and standardized data architectures. Owner must become better educated in order to perform in their role as stewards of the built environment. Facility / Infrastructure Total Cost of Ownership Management.

Management 40

Management Life Cycle Plans Renovating 40

Building Information Management

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Organizational “buy-in” – This means a fundamental commitment and understanding by leadership, facility management, and all stakeholders of the built environment that facilities must be managed on a life-cycle / total cost of ownership basis versus a first cost basis.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Renovating Transportation Education 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 21, 2016

It requires a focus upon best management practices, education and training, key performance indicators, and continuous improvement, in short, LEAN business process application. Reducing end product variability, cycle-times, waste, and cost is not rocket science. Best Value Procurement. Financial Transparency. Shared Risk/Reward.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Construction Education Visualization 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 25, 2016

Owners are ultimately responsible for their built structures and thus must be capable throughout project delivery cycles. Understanding how to develop, deploy, and monitor a LEAN Construction Delivery Program must be focus of our educational and professional development institutions and resources. Continuous Education & Training.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Construction Procurement Education 40

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 19, 2016

This obstacle can only be overcome by changing current formal education and professional training programs. Educational and training programs must focus upon asset life-cycle management and modeling. Overall focus must shift from first-cost mentality to life-cycle/total-cost-of-ownership. Lower total cost.

Renovating 100

Renovating Life Cycle Contract Estimating 100

Building Information Management

JULY 5, 2016

Best value procurement. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Continuous education, monitoring, & improvement. The AEC and FM industry lacks coordination due to void of life-cycle based based goals and objectives and an associated lack of focus upon OUTCOMES. Mutual trust/respect.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Construction BIM Education 40

Building Information Management

MARCH 29, 2016

The ultimate goal of “BIM” is to improve the life-cycle management of built structures (buildings, roads, dams, landscapes…) in consideration of core economic, environmental, and key performance issues. Common terms, definitions, data architectures. Education and continuous training. BIM effort.

BIM 40

BIM Life Cycle Modeling Foundation 40

Building Information Management

JULY 8, 2016

Life-cycle asset management philosophy. Best value procurement. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures… all in plain English. Ongoing education, training, & awareness buildling. The vacuum is one of lack of change management skills and lack of overall asset life-cycle management competency.

BIM 40

BIM Life Cycle Construction Management 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 3, 2016

Best Value versus Lowest Bidder Procurement. Common Terms, Definitions, and Data Architectures. Continuous Education, Improvement and Monitoring. The most important element to successful project delivery is an educated and capable Owner. Educational institutions must also alter their programs. Shared Risk/Reward.

Products 40

Products Construction Procurement Contract 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 19, 2016

Internally, owners must be skilled at all aspects of managing the life-cycle of physical structures from concept through warranty, with particular emphasis upon LEAN, collaborative best management practices. While there is a high degree of trust, all financial, project, and technical information is fully transparent and documented.

Renovating 40

Renovating Contract Life Cycle Budgeting 40

Natural Building

DECEMBER 24, 2019

She called up her structural engineer on an educational-building project and asked if they could swap out some of the cement in their mix for fly ash. with credits for procuring low-carbon materials and compiling a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for projects. He was game to try it in the foundation. Now, that is scale.’”.

Materials 52

Materials Design Concrete Accounting 52

Building Information Management

APRIL 26, 2016

Standardize – Use common terms, definitions, and data architectures (Uniformat, Masterformat, OMNICLASS). Continuous Improvement – Maintain standards through ongoing education, training, awareness building, empowerment, commitment, discipline,and metrics (key performance indicators). Best Value Procurement. Co-location.

Contract 40

Contract Life Cycle Construction Resource 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 29, 2016

An asset competency model is a formalized, detailed description and documentation of the role-specific knowledge domains required to optimize and continuously improve physical infrastructure life-cycle management. Internal and external relationships are also developed through the employment LEAN management practices.

Modeling 58

Modeling Management Life Cycle Infrastructure 58

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Senior level management and all facilities, procurement, planning, and engineering/architecture/construction professionals must work in an environment that is collaborative, transparency, and prior business process are challenged and continuously improved. Focus is upon best value and life-cycle costs versus first costs.

Management 40

Management Contract Life Cycle Architecture 40

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

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. PERSONNEL Establishes the roles, responsibilities, education, and training of the active participants in the BIM processes established.

Modeling 40

Modeling BIM Management Life Cycle 40

Building Information Management

JULY 26, 2016

Value-based procurement. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Continuous education, training, and improvement. Reducing total costs: Build exactly what is required, and share cost information throughout the project life-cycle. Transparency – financial, planning and technical. Shared risk/reward.

Construction 40

Construction Contract Life Cycle Procurement 40

Building Information Management

JULY 26, 2016

Value-based procurement. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Continuous education, training, and improvement. Reducing total costs: Build exactly what is required, and share cost information throughout the project life-cycle. Transparency – financial, planning and technical. Shared risk/reward.

Construction 40

Construction Contract Life Cycle Procurement 40

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 12, 2016

BIM, the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technologies, holds promise, yet remains elusive to many. Attaining the requisite level of convergence requires use of common terms and definitions, standardized data architectures (Masterformat, Uniformat, Omniclass, etc.), Best Value Procurement.

BIM 100

BIM Contract Life Cycle Construction 100

Building Information Management

JULY 28, 2015

” This statement is fundamentally flawed and representative of the prevalent lack of education and awareness within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management Sectors. and life-cycle management practices based upon total cost of ownership and full consideration of economic/environmental factors.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle BIM Visualization Procurement 40

Building Information Management

JULY 28, 2015

” This statement is fundamentally flawed and representative of the prevalent lack of education and awareness within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management Sectors. and life-cycle management practices based upon total cost of ownership and full consideration of economic/environmental factors.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle BIM Visualization Procurement 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 26, 2016

BEST VALUE procurement, shared RISK/REWARD, MUTUAL TRUST/RESPECT, and LONGER TERM RELATIONSHIPS are additional areas that differentiate LEAN collaborative construction delivery form tradition design-bid-build or even design-build, CM@R, etc. Cost metrics should be focus upon total life-cycle returns and NOT first costs.

Construction 40

Construction Procurement Life Cycle Renovating 40

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

He introduced the data flow in building life cycle management from planning to construction execution. Shawn’s construction tech knowledge and degree in Technology Education make digital transformation a smooth process for Continental Electrical’s office and field teams. Education Manager, Gaylor Electric, Inc.

Construction 122

Construction BIM Management Project Management 122