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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

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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Life-cycle management of the built environment – To BIM or Not to BIM?

Building Information Management

Buildings, roads, dams, electrical grids… are with us for a very long time and linked to the success and failure of just about everything… education, health, national security, transportation, habitat, sustainability, national and local economies and more. That said, we are not acting as stakeholders of our built infrastructure.

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Construction Cost Estimator – Line Item

Job Order Contracting

Field construction knowledge – Without knowing what types of crews are currently used for drywall installation or asbestos removal, impacts of site conditions or security/access issues, etc., Higher Education. Transportation (Airports/Mass Transit). State Government and/or K12 Education.

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Demand For Efficient Life-Cycle Building Management Processes – BIM, JOC, IPD – FIATECH PRESENTATION – 2012

Building Information Management

Field specific variables, such as weather, on-going operations, soils conditions, security, safety, site lay-out, environment protections and other contexts must be considered as well as the means and methods of work execution. A “FACEBOOK for Facilities Construction and Life-cycle Operations” is on the horizon.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

BD+C

San Francisco International Airport used Kingspan’s Designwall 2000 insulated metal panels to create an architectural look for its Consolidated Administration Campus. Every phase of the construction project life cycle presents contractors with opportunities help lower embodied carbon.

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The Problem with the UK’s BIM Strategy

Building Information Management

Despite the obviously limited nature of our economic and environmental resources, a significant amount of waste associated renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction of buildings and infrastructure (dams, roads, utilities, airports, bridges…) continues unabated. Continuous education, training, and improvement.

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BIM – Attempting to Run before you can Walk? – BIM EU-wide Procurement Initiative

Building Information Management

A focus upon these and principles associated with the life-cycle management of the built environment would be of far more value than 3d modeling. Adjusting priorities would provide more significant value such as: 1. More education and resources should be expended upon life-cycle management of the build environment vs. 3D modeling.

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