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LEAN Asset Life-cycle Management – Achieve Optimal Construction Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

The path to improvement has been available for nearly 30 years… collaborative LEAN construction delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery, IPD (for major new construction) and Job Order Contracting, JOC (for renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction).

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1,500th Envision Sustainability Professional Credentialed

Green Building Law Update

The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure announced that earlier this week it reached the milestone of 1,500 Envision Sustainability Professionals who have been credentialed in the use of the Envision sustainable infrastructure rating system. yes, something like LEED for roads and bridges).

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Keep up with Regular Repair, Maintenance, Renovation, Sustainability, and Minor New Construction Projects

Job Order Contracting

Maximize Performance of Physical Infrastructure (Buildings, Roads, Dams, Bridges, Airports, Mass Transit…). The post Keep up with Regular Repair, Maintenance, Renovation, Sustainability, and Minor New Construction Projects appeared first on 4BT. Develop Long-term Mutually Beneficial Owner-Contractor Relationships.

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

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem It's going to take the efforts of government and the private sector to mitigate the climate-damaging problem of embodied carbon, says this building sustainability expert, Brent Trenga.

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Lessons learned from 70 years of building cities

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Airports Laboratories Office Buildings Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Architects Adaptive Reuse The Changing Built Environment Urban Planning As Sasaki looks back on 70 years of practice , we’re also looking to the future of building cities. The future of buildings is not only about the buildings themselves.

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The Problem with the UK’s BIM Strategy

Building Information Management

The fundamental problem with the UK’s BIM Strategy is found within the following quotation “digital technology is changing the way we plan, build, maintain and use our social and economic infrastructure.”(Source: Complete tools and controls for “infrastructure” development and operation.

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