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The TOP 10 Things ALL Facility Owners Need to Know – Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment –

Building Information Management

Many/most Owners do not have the knowledge, capability, or organizational buy-in to support life-cycle management of the built environment. Far too often focus is upon first-costs vs. life-cycle costs. Your budget is largely operations/repair/renovation/maintenance, not new construction.

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Integrated project delivery method

Job Order Contracting

These benefits are largely derived through the use of a common data environment, CDE, which dramatically improves communication and collaboration throughout the project life-cycle. A detailed, full transparent line item construction cost estimate is critical for improving collaboration and reducing change orders. .

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BIM and The Role of a Construction Cost Estimator

Building Information Management

A team approach, support by technologies such as domain-specific cloud-computing solutions (cost estimating, capital planning, maintenance/repair, …) integrated with 3D visualization tools.aka Revit will become commonplace.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Mike White, Director of Design and Construction at North Point Hospitality

Autodesk Construction Cloud

I also oversee the development life cycle, starting with due diligence, all the way up through the end of construction and through the warranty period. When you're inputting cost data, plan data, or change data into the system, it lets you visualize where the project is at any given point. So it's going to be a big one.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Project Delivery Method

Autodesk Construction Cloud

While a project’s ultimate goal is a successful completion, the steps it takes to get there are critical to profits and project’s life cycle. By choosing the right one for your project, overall risk can be reduced, and budget and schedule can be better managed. No one model is perfect; all have benefits and drawbacks.

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Architectural Project Estimating

Construction Cost Estimating

We also offer other estimating services like cost modeling, cash flow projection, life cycle costing, change order management, job order costing, best value analysis and hard bid estimates. These color codes help architects to identify, visually and clearly, what objects are used to generate the quantities.

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JOC – Job Order Contracting – Improving Productivity for Facility Renovation, Repair, Sustainability, and Construction

Building Information Management

Improvements of 20-25%+ on the procurement side, virtual elimination of legal disputes, and significant reduction of change orders are just a few of the benefits provided by IPD and JOC. In addition, owners, contractors, and AEs tend to get more work done on-time and on-budget. Also, what is delivered is what was anticipated.