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Accounting For Methane: A Look at the Evolving Greenhouse Gas Emissions Landscape

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This blog post was co-authored by Stok’s Director of Carbon Services Colette Crouse and students in her Masters of the Environment Carbon Accounting & Management course at the University of Colorado, Boulder: Rebecca Billingsley, Andrea Green, and Kenny Prior (see bios below).

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Sustainability and Efficient Facilities Lifecycle Management

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While most of us are aware of the rampant economic and environmental waste associated with the repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction of buildings and other physical infrastructure, few understand that solutions are readily available or have the will and commitment to deploy them.

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2023 Collaborative Job Order Contracting

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JOC Programs must be collaborative with all parties working in a compliant, fully transparent environment, and towards mutually beneficial well-defined goals. Owners must provide leadership and accountability and not excessively rely upon “JOC consultants” #2. In many instances, this has simply not been the case. #1.

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The 2 Primary Factors Impacting Construction Outcomes in the Public Sector

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Most of us are aware of the rampant, economic, and environmental waste endemic to public sector facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction. Proper implementation and management of these superior project delivery methods requires fundamental change in the working environment. 2 Construction delivery method.

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5 things developers should know about mass timber

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Erik Barth Regulations Mass Timber Wood The Changing Built Environment The U.N.’s With an inherently low carbon profile, mass timber can make a big impact in tackling climate action in the built environment. The building industry accounts for approximately 39% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. What are we waiting for?

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Commercial Construction Strategies: Adaptive Reuse for Big Box Retail

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From a construction management point of view, a few major considerations need to be taken into account when repurposing large big box spaces: From electrical systems and switch gears to mechanical, HVAC, and storefront entrances, what existing infrastructure can be reused to reduce overall costs? And, of course, parking is abundant.

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LEAN Project Management for Best Value Construction Delivery

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A common data environment, including a locally researched detailed line item construction cost database organization using CSI Masterformat, is an exclusive and critical component of the 4BT-PE cloud solution. Contact us to see how we can assist your organization. contact-form].