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Behind the Build: Interview with Mike White, Director of Design and Construction at North Point Hospitality

Autodesk Construction Cloud

I also oversee the development life cycle, starting with due diligence, all the way up through the end of construction and through the warranty period. I went to Georgia Tech, where I started as a declared architecture major. And it's easier to determine what we can do around other budget items where we may have over-budgeted.

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Ken Calligar Is Shaping a New Era of Resilient Construction

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We have condos on the beach in Grand Cayman as well as commercial buildings, LEED Gold municipal buildings, buildings on the campus of the University of California, and prisons in Georgia. We even supplied the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan and received good NATO ballistic ratings on our structures. You don't have a choice.

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The future of sustainable and affordable housing

Lets Build

As a matter of fact, even though sustainable homes are more expensive to build, they are seen as an investment because they optimize the life cycle of the house, they tend to increase the property value and the energy consumption in the house gets minimized. South Shore is a roofing contractor serving the GA.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Our itinerary includes the new Biosciences Training Center, now under construction in Georgia, and a look at the Life Sciences Greenhouses in Pennsylvania, which nurture the seedlings of innovation until they’re ready to blossom into commercial use. Its total budget amounts to almost 80 billion euros. Then, it’s back to the U.S.,

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. In an industry known for construction delays and cost overruns, high quality BIM projects are being built on-time (or even early) and significantly under budget. Chuck Eastman , Georgia Tech.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. In an industry known for construction delays and cost overruns, high quality BIM projects are being built on-time (or even early) and significantly under budget. Chuck Eastman , Georgia Tech.

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U.S. Government Plans to Leverage P3s to Make Federal Buildings More Energy Efficient

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11] Central to the ESPC framework is the ESCO’s commitment to achieving “life cycle cost-effectiveness,” that is, that the benefits derived from the energy improvements meet or exceed total costs over the life of the contract. [12] Recent P3s Include: UESC to improve federal buildings across Georgia. 13] U.S.

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