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RS Mean’s 2015 Facility Manager’s Package offers new life cycle cost models for facilities

Construction Cost Estimating

RSMeans obtained by the Gordian Group, the most recognized supplier of construction cost estimating information in North America, just declared the availability of its totally new life cycle cost models for facilities which belong to its 2015 Facility Manager’s Package.

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

Sharing actionable, transparent information with all construction project participants and stakeholders early on, and throughout the construction and operations life-cycle of a built structure, would measurably mitigate change orders, legal disputes, and waste.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges. INTRODUCTION.

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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. Building Information Modelling BIM in the Construction Industry – Technical Report TR-1405. Learn more… [contact-form].

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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. Building Information Modelling BIM in the Construction Industry – Technical Report TR-1405. Delivering Better Facilities through Lean Construction and Owner Leadership.

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Smart Market Report – The Business Value of BIM for Construction in the Major Global Markets: How Contractors Around the World Are Driving Innovation with Building Information Modeling

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Are 71% of US/North America respondents are practicing BIM”? Does anyone out there really believe that “BIM is reaching maturity among contractors in Europe and North America”? Is this true?

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

BD+C

Kingspan panels help earn LEED points for energy modeling, lower energy use, energy intensity, recycled content, and reduction of volatile organic compounds. Launched in 2022, the Buy Clean Task Force and initiative was created to harness some of that purchasing power to promote the use of low-carbon, made-in-America construction materials.