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Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates

Job Order Contracting

While this report targets defense infrastructure, the issue is far worse at the GSA and other non-DOD government agencies where there is a basic lack of understanding and implementation of organization-wide, best value, LEAN Facilities Management, and LEAN Construction Delivery Methods. Publicly Released: Mar 27, 2018.

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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

When specifying flooring, one should consider both sustainability and performance. These factors not only contribute to the sustainability of the flooring, but how it performs. These factors not only contribute to the sustainability of the flooring, but how it performs. Even sustainably made floors must be installed correctly.

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Rad Projects of 2018

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After a year like 2018, all we can really say is thank you. Here’s a shout-out to just some of the work we completed together in 2018. Let’s celebrate some of our clients that really took their commitment to high performance buildings to a new level in 2018! Client: Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Resilience is the Future of Real Estate and USGBC Spells it RELi

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 In 2018, the LEED Steering Committee also synthesized the LEED Resilient Design pilot credits with RELi’s Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation credits.

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STOP using ACFs – The inherent flaws of Area Cost Factors

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As a result, more than 40 years after the introduction of area cost factors (ACFs), the Department of Defense (and the Federal Government in general) is no closer to its goals of having construction cost estimates match actual construction costs, or properly adjusting for regional (location based) and/or time-based cost variances.

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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

In other words, for FRTW to burn, it must be exposed to a persistently applied, external fuel source, without which FRTW cannot ignite and sustain combustion. IBC 2018 Ed. NFPA 5000 2018 Ed. NFPA 101 2018 Ed. Writing a strong, generic specification for FRTW is daunting. The test consists of a 7.6-m wide specimen.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

Because we found the components’ facility condition data were unreliable due to missing and inaccurate entries, as noted above, we were unable to analyze the relationship between facility sustainment funding and facility condition. released and first version commercially available 2003: NAVY funds development of BUILDER 3.0 (web-based

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