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Staying in control with fabric cladding

Construction Specifier

Tension fabric structures have served a key role as a cost-effective facility solution for years. In some cases, users have turned to fabric buildings when brick-and-mortar construction is not economically feasible or would take too long to complete. The fabric building market remained stable, but also stagnant, for a long time.

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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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Lessons learned from 70 years of building cities

BD+C

Sasaki’s work is not only about planning environmentally and socially just cities, but also creating rich experiences for contemporary life. Architecture as a Building Block Photos courtesy Sasaki We experience cities at different scales—at the skyline and the sidewalk, for instance.

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BIM Guide for Owners – Building Information Management, Model, Modeling

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. Another important consideration it the type and granularity of information required at this stage of your life-cycle management strategy.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Using pre-fabricated elements or existing structures. Avoiding the use of experts.

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Built Environment Life-Management, BIM, LEAN, and Efficient Project Delivery

Building Information Management

Life-cycle Management 101. BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. 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.

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Building smarter healthcare through better healthcare interior design

The Korte Company

The principle of healing architecture has arisen from research assessing how patient outcomes improve when certain design choices are made. Furnishings with color-accented fabric matching the color codes assigned to the facility’s separate departments. The research becomes more and more convincing all the time.

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