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New Green Building Tax Credit is a Progressive Effort

Green Building Law Update

Bill 10-20 dramatically upgrades the Maryland county’s existing green building real property tax credit, prioritizing energy reduction in the name of GHG emission reduction, in new and existing commercial and multifamily buildings and ensuring incentives are now given only for buildings that surpass requirements of the County’s building code.

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BIM for FM

Job Order Contracting

Distribution and sharing of information by the Facilities Management Team is crucial to achieving cost efficient and high performing facilities, however, 3-D BIM visualization and modeling software is generally very sophisticated, relatively expensive, and very complex. 8. Cost of implementation is insignificant versus cost savings.

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An Invisible Revolution: How Leading Construction Firms Are Rethinking Construction as a Business

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Six years ago, I started to inventory the strategic moves of the largest players across the construction industry to better advise these customers. They try to diversify their activities through new business models. Secondly, they understand they need to transform their organizations profoundly.

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Vaughan Buckley on Restarting a Former Katerra Factory

Pro Builder

I think that if we want to make adjustments, it’s probably in the areas of the business model and the go-to-market strategy. So right now I've been able to do that because we're still going through existing inventory. PB: Can you give an example of an innovation that would be available once VBS commercializes it?

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Open BIM – What’s it going to take to get there?

Building Information Management

current focus upon 3D modeling. Computerized Maintenance Management systems (CMMS) – inventory, repair, maintenance of ‘movable equipment’ Typically involving expenditures of $10,000 or less. Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) – structure enabling native storage of instance models. and Canada.

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Wisconsin Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Brownfield Grants: Grants to local governments, businesses, non-profits and individuals for developing commercial and industrial sites that have been adversely affected by environmental contamination. Manufacturer and merchant inventories are exempt from personal property taxes.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: A New Year in.

Rory Woolsey

The inventory of houses on the market is declining which is good for residential construction and on the commercial side there are many aged facilities that are in need of renovation or replacement. Kaiser Constructors and has worked on projects ranging from heavy, military, industrial, commercial and residential.