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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

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.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Research has readily noted the causal factors for the relative lack of adoption of Lean across the construction and facilities management sectors. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 14(2), 73–78. Design-Build Contracting Claims: Cumulative Supplement. Retrieved July 12, 2010, from [link] Alinaitwe, H. 1440-7027).

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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

Since 2002, I have contended that truly sustainable buildings would create net public benefits to over-compensate for their (currently) unavoidable material flows and embodied impacts. Some claim to achieve “zero” energy when they only count operating, not manufacturing, energy. This is known as the ‘decoy effect’.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

Solid Waste Management. In response to claims by environmentalists that existing forest cover protection laws have not been efficacious, during the 2019 session, the General Assembly considered several bills aimed at assessing the state’s forest conservation efforts. Water Quality and Land Management. Forest Cover.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

From the industrial revolution, the splitting of the atom, and the first modern computer to the first test-tube baby—Manchester claims to be synonymous with innovation. It is closely connected with a wide range of incubator and growth facilities ideal for all stages of a company’s life cycle. One example is GlaxoSmithKline.

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