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LEAN Construction Project Delivery enables efficient life-cycle management of the built environment

Job Order Contracting

LEAN Construction Project Delivery enables efficient life-cycle management of the built environment via a robust integration of process, actionable standardized and common information, supporting technology, and ongoing training. An example of LEAN Construction Project Delivery is OpenJOC ™ Job Order Contracting.

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Essential Reasons Why Everyone Should Be Certified in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

Construction Marketing

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a certification that aids in improving building performance and reduces the impact on the environment. It provides guidelines to create an efficient and sustainable built environment that encourages market competitiveness and public health improvement. Sustainable Sites.

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Challenges facing Owners LEAN Facilities Management

Job Order Contracting

In general, real property owners lack an understand of facilities life-cycle and LEAN construction best management practices. Facilities life-cycle and LEAN construction best management practices … Collaboration will ALL project participants and stakeholders. Ongoing REQUIRED training and certification.

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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

When specifying flooring, one should consider both sustainability and performance. These factors not only contribute to the sustainability of the flooring, but how it performs. These factors not only contribute to the sustainability of the flooring, but how it performs. Even sustainably made floors must be installed correctly.

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King County Mandates its Green Building be the Greenest, with a Twist

Green Building Law Update

All King County, Washington government construction and major renovations must strive to achieve the top national green construction rating under Ordinance 2013-0324 unanimously approved last week by the Metropolitan King County Council. Challenge County Initiative King LEED Living Local Government SITES Sustainable building program'

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Energy-Efficiency Standards and Green Building Certification Systems Used by the Department of Defense for Military Construction and Major Renovations -2103

Building Information Management

Efficient project delivery methods such as JOC, Job Order Contracting, and SABER are an important element in the renovation, repair and sustainability of facilities. The additional incremental costs to design and construct high-performance or green buildings are relatively small when compared to total life-cycle costs.

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

BD+C

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. Of that amount, $2.15