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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Educational and training programs must focus upon asset life-cycle management and modeling. Overall focus must shift from first-cost mentality to life-cycle/total-cost-of-ownership. How many cycles were required for owner/contractor negotiations per task order? The owner?

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Collaboration, Transparency, Accuracy, Process, and supporting Technology – The Keys to Improved Productivity for Building Construction, Renovation, Repair, and Sustainability

Building Information Management

until it shifts its focus exclusively to culture and process change. We don’t even have a common understanding of BIM, let alone sharing BIM models. Even today, many view BIM as 3D visualization, vs. life-cycle building management supported by technology!

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A Step Closer to BIM? NIBS and AIA Working toward Centralized Building Information Resource

Building Information Management

Also, the “let’s keep the Owner in the dark” or the “let’s not work together”, and the “bid low and make it up in change orders” , or “let’s accept the lowest bid and hope for the best” approaches to ruin. Building Information Management Framework - BIMF.

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BIM and Cloud Computing – Get Beyond 3D Visualization and Focus Upon the “I”

Building Information Management

Both technologies also embed associated business process rules and components which will enable enhanced life-cycle management of the built environment, alignment of structures with organizational mission, and better consideration of general community impacts. Definition of BIM. . BIM can be applied at various levels.

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BIM Strategy, Collaboration, and Interoperablity… Getting it right from square one.

Building Information Management

the net result being more jobs being done on-time and on-budge with fewer change orders and virtual elimination of the legal disputes, the latter be unfortunately common with traditional methods. Job Order Contracting Process. How built environment stakeholders share information and work together will continue to evolve.

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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. Building Information Model: The DIGITAL REPRESENTATION of physical and functional characteristics of a facility.

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7 Construction Industry Truths Made Clear at Autodesk University

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Sustainable construction can make good business sense. A change management strategy likely matters more than you think. The additional infrastructure needs or talent required to be successful in life-cycle data collection & analysis. Sustainable construction can make good business sense. Josh Cheney, Sr.