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Improving Public Sector Facilities Life-cycle Management – Hard Questions MUST be asked and ANSWERED!

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Improving public sector facilities life-cycle management is critical to the economy, the environment, and to our safety. How can formal and professional education be improved? contact-form] The post Improving Public Sector Facilities Life-cycle Management – Hard Questions MUST be asked and ANSWERED!

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Facilities Management and Entropy

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Certifications, traditional formal education, and professional training related to facilities life-cycle management and AECOO practices and practices have done little to address “Understanding and dealing with the concept of value.” It’s well beyond time to stop running with the pack. Where has that gotten us?

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

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Education, key performance indicators, common terms and definitions, collaborative construction delivery methods, and current, objective, local market granular cost data as well as supporting technology can to be leveraged to enable significant cost savings via signifincant improvements in cost visibility, cost management, and productivity.

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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. INTRODUCTION.

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Construction Cost Estimator – Line Item

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Higher Education. State Government and/or K12 Education. their quality and condition, ability to support the organizational mission, and life-cycle costs. The use of unit cost methodology promotes and requires responsibility and accountability for decisions throughout the project life-cycle.

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LEAN Construction in the Public Sector

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This simply cannot occur until Owners become competent in Collaborative LEAN Construction Delivery Methods and associated life-cycle management of the built environment. Thus the issue is not the unavailability of solutions, but rather the level of education and awareness across the AECOO sector.

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Top 10 ERP Solutions for Construction Firms

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To answer this question, we’ve partnered with analysts and technology experts, the Business Software Education Center , to explore the top ERP solutions for growing construction firms. Reflex’s Construction Management software provides project and asset-based life-cycle management in one fully integrated software package.

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