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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Scholarship prizes total $50,000 and will support educational expenses such as tuition, books, room and board, transportation, and childcare. In addition, Autodesk is also offering students who who are continuing their education in the building trades $50,000 worth of microgrants *.

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The responsibility of adapting historic university buildings

BD+C

As we look at the benefits of transforming historic buildings, it’s vital to consider three factors: authenticity, environmental sustainability, and cultural inheritance. Authenticity of place College campuses are meant to transport the community psychologically—putting people in an apt frame of mind for teaching and learning.

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

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Trish Donnally MFPRO+ Blog Higher Education University Buildings Multifamily Housing Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Student Housing Designers Architects Projects Sustainable Development To say the United States is facing an affordable housing crisis is a major understatement.

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Efficient Construction Project Delivery for Public Sector Facility Owners – Renovation, Repair, Sustainability

Building Information Management

Public sector and multi-building facility routinely scope, procure, award, and execute thousands of renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and “minor” new construction projects. Unit price book: Cost estimating and pricing for individual projects (task orders) is determined from a line item unit price book (UPB).

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What is JOC

Job Order Contracting

Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) construction delivery was too inefficient for the large numbers of renovation, repair, and sustainment/maintenance projects. Now JOC programs can be supported by multiple suppliers of unit prices books, software types, and associated services. A unit price book , UPB, is typically updated annually/.

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Efficient Construction Project Delivery for Public Sector Facility Owners – Renovation, Repair, Sustainability

Building Information Management

Job order contracting is now in use by Federal, State, County, and Local Governments; Healthcare, Education, Transportation (Airports, Mass Transit, DOTs) and has even expanded into the private sector. Cost Visibility and Transparency: The unit price book provides an unparalleled level of cost visibility.

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Quake-Damaged Building Implosion One for the Books | ENR.

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