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Facilities Management – 2017 Best Practices

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Facilities Management – 2017 Best Practices. TO BIM OR NOT TO BIM – The Wrong Question. Despite the “surveys”, “reports”, and hype associated with BIM, building owners and facilities management professionals have yet to fully understand BIM, let alone decide whether or not to practice it.

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The average house in NZ will likely ‘earn’ much more than the average salary earner (person) this year!

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million, a gain of 46 per cent, between 2014 and 2017.” The above paragraph may suggest this post has little to do with BIM, but under the surface, it has everything to do with BIM. Or, more precisely BIM has everything to do with the above statement. both quotes are from NZ Herald) Image from here: [link]

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Construction Document Information Management

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2017, Cholakis, P. The process creates a competitive advantage for innovative construction companies. A Construction Document Management System must allow the visualization of the most common files used in the construction industry such as detailed line item construction cost estimates, required forms, drawings and BIM models.

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3D Printing in Construction: Growth, Benefits, and Challenges

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Will the innovation live up to the hype? Prior to the adoption of building information modeling (BIM) , 3D printing was even used by architectural firms to build scale models. million by 2021, growth that’s largely spurred by the amount of new, innovative projects that are being planned in construction. Quality control.

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How Minecraft Teaches Kids The Value of Construction Management

ProcurementExpress.com

Timothy Hegarty, principal of Advisory, a company that identifies growth opportunities for existing companies, and has also been active in social media surrounding building information modeling (BIM), said: “ Minecraft can already import Revit models to create “worlds,” so why not use it to teach BIM and construction practices?”. .

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How Minecraft Teaches Kids The Value of Construction Management

ProcurementExpress.com

Timothy Hegarty, principal of Advisory, a company that identifies growth opportunities for existing companies, and has also been active in social media surrounding building information modeling (BIM), said: “ Minecraft can already import Revit models to create “worlds,” so why not use it to teach BIM and construction practices?”. .

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Addressing the Skills Shortage by Accommodating People with Disabilities

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A 2017 survey from industry body GoConstruct found nearly 200,000 people working in construction in the UK were registered disabled. Not only that, but having more diverse perspectives inevitably leads to fresher ideas and more innovative thinking. This equates to over 9% of the total workforce (just over 2.1 million employees).