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Walter P Moore promotes former 40 Under 40 winner Kelly Roberts

BD+C

As the head of the firm’s Sustainable Design Community of Practice within the structures group, Roberts specializes in life cycle assessment, embodied carbon studies, and the integration of sustainable and salvaged materials.

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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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Resilient roof system design for our future

Construction Specifier

Sustainability and resilience. Implementing sustainability, resilience, and adaptability characteristics into buildings and structures requires above-code design considerations. Sustainability. Sustainability is the capacity for human health and well-being, economic vitality and prosperity, and environmental resource abundance.

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Insulation in the extreme

Construction Specifier

by Tiffany Coppock, AIA, NCARB, CDT, LEED AP. As interest in sustainable roofs continues to grow, ordinances are beginning to show change and other ways to further reduce buildings’ impact on the environment must also be considered. A reduction in GWP supports sustainability. Photos courtesy Owens Corning.

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A Step Closer to BIM? NIBS and AIA Working toward Centralized Building Information Resource

Building Information Management

It’s simple, collaboration and improved “cradle to cradle” facility life-cycle management approaches will be required for survival. The march toward BIM, and recognizing its true potential as “efficient building life-cycle management support by technology and standardized processes, taxonomy, etc.”

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Job Order Contracting Information

Job Order Contracting

Related Resources: ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management – A framework for facilities life-cycle management. Learn more… [contact-form]. Building Information Modelling BIM in the Construction Industry – Technical Report TR-1405. They also select the construction delivery method.

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LEAN Job Order Contracting Intro 4

Job Order Contracting

ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management – A framework for facilities life-cycle management. COLLABORATION IN CONSTRUCTION – IPD, JOC – Collaboration In Construction-White Paper – Owners determine the approach for funding, using, sustaining and disposing of buildings and infrastructure.

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