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Enabling Efficient Life-cycle Managment of the Built Environment supported by Digitial Technology – BIM – 2014

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Technology is not the primary obstacle to efficient life-cycle management of the built environment! Refusal to adopt collaborative construction delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for new construction, Job Order Contracting (JOC) for repair, renovation, sustainability, and minor new construction projects.

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2014 – Owners Need to Step It Up and Get Serious about BIM / BLM – Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

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It’s time for Owners to stop the marketing… Stop hyping their LEED Silver or “Whatever” Buildings… and actually participate in life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. A focus upon life-cycle costs vs. first costs in terms finance and environmental impact.

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BIM Basics 2014 – Building Information Modeling, Models, and Management

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BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by technology. Inclusive of site/utilities, new construction, deferred maintenance, preventive/routine maintenance, renovation, compliance, capital renewal,and occupancy costs.) As such, its ultimate purpose is to manage total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Construction Cost Estimating Trends – 2014 and Beyond

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Major Trends: Shift to life-cycle cost visibility for new construction, renovation, repair, operations, and maintenance. Integration of estimating with business and procurement “best practices”/business process will be the norm (LEAN, IPD, JOC, BIM). eTakeoff /BIM/QTO). Standard use of visual estimating tools (i.e.

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Construction Cost Estimating Trends – 2014 and Beyond

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Major Trends: Shift to life-cycle cost visibility for new construction, renovation, repair, operations, and maintenance. Integration of estimating with business and procurement “best practices”/business process will be the norm (LEAN, IPD, JOC, BIM). eTakeoff /BIM/QTO). Standard use of visual estimating tools (i.e.

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BIM Guide for Owners – Building Information Management, Model, Modeling

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BIM Planning Guide for Facility Owners”. B IM / BIM 3. 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. From a BIM planning perspective there are multiple levels to be considered: .

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You are what you measure… and/or … You can’t manage what you don’t measure

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Well, if more architecture, repair, renovation, sustainability, and construction projects were conceived, procured, executed, and monitored using similar methods and KPI’s the world just might be a better place. What have you decided to measure for 2014? Below is a snapshot of Boiled Architecture’s dashboard for 2013.