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2018 – LEAN Facilities Management Trends

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AECOO Transformation – 2018 – LEAN Facilities Management Trends. Life-cycle asset management focus versus myopic first cost driven decision-making. Innovative procurement and management models with balanced risk sharing. The post 2018 – LEAN Facilities Management Trends appeared first on 4BT.

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Open Construction Cost Estimating

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Open Construction Cost Estimating for 2018 and Beyond! Mitigate variance and risk! Forget the past, and move toward greater collaboration and efficiency with open, shared construction cost data. Begin to improve your planning, budgeting, and construction management decisions today.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

Between October 1, 2018, and January 31, 2019, there were 342 reports of incidents of sewer overflows or treatment bypasses (an average of 21 per week). Water and Sewer Services. One avenue to conserve water is graywater recycling, which is an on-site wastewater treatment and recycling system.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

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We previously reported in 2018 on these unreliable data and made 15 SMS is a tool for asset life-cycle management that produces multi-year condition trends and investment requirements. There are specialized SMS modules, such as BUILDER (buildings), RAILER (rails), ROOFER (roofs), and PAVER (pavements).

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Green Globes 01-201X about to be Green Lighted

Green Building Law Update

The real news behind that headline causing great enthusiasm is that after a 3 year process, the Green Building Initiative is nearing the end and a completely revised “Green Globes Assessment Protocol for Commercial Buildings” will be available in 2018. This is not year 2000, when LEED was the first and only green building game in U.S.

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A Giant That Is (Still) Creeping Through the Construction Industry: Digitization

Building Radar

The services and products of PropTechs cover the complete life cycle of a property: from financing and realization to subsequent operation and utilization through rental or resale. Here too, there are more opportunities than risks for your company. The idea of Building 4.0

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Top 10 Companies for Environmental Engineers to Work For

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” The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 5.1 % employment growth for environmental engineers between 2018 and 2028. Our beliefs are strong, enabling us to take risks without hesitation and find solutions the world needs. Increase System Life Cycle. In that period, an estimated 2,900 jobs should open up.