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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

by Jane Rohde, AIA, FIIDA, ASID, ACHA, CHID, LEED AP BD+C, GGA-EB, GGF. 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. Even sustainably made floors must be installed correctly.

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The growing demand for transparency in buildings

Construction Specifier

A high-performance building is one that “integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficiency, durability, life-cycle performance, and occupant productivity.”

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Steve received his Certificate of Management – Building Information Modeling from the AGC in 2011. That said, major cultural change must occur in order to make significant progress.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Steve received his Certificate of Management – Building Information Modeling from the AGC in 2011. That said, major cultural change must occur in order to make significant progress.

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BIM Glossary Terms and Definitions – NBIMS-US – 2013

Building Information Management

As such it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle from inception onwards. BIM Life-Cycle Views. IFC Certification Procedure (IFC 4×4**). In 2010 buildingSMART developed the new IFC Certification 2.0

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