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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges. INTRODUCTION.

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Strategic Construction Marketing Tools

Construction Marketing

Below we will share several popular strategic marketing tools including internet-based competitive intelligence, market segmentation, perceptual maps, the growth-share matrix, and product life cycle analysis. This examples compares product range and level of innovation between companies. Product Life Cycle Analysis.

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Best Construction Cost Estimating Solution

Job Order Contracting

Workflow Management – Process is “king” Having a LEAN workflow associated with estimates throughout a project life-cycle brings consistency and quality to the process. All of the above and more are exclusively available within the 4BT OpenBUILD (TM) suite of solutions. Change how you do business, starting today!

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Facilities Lifecycle Management

Job Order Contracting

See asset life-cycle model… A total cost of ownership perspective is also required as opposed to the more prevalent practice of first-cost dominance. Transparency – Appropriate access to cost information, and associated comparison to published independent third-party costs, such as RSMeans Construction Cost Data.

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EPDs are Among the Hottest Topics in Green Building

Green Building Law Update

An environmental product declaration (EPD) is a method of quantifying the environmental impacts of a product. In the context of green building, EPDs will provide a way describing the environmental impact of a building material or product. EPDs articulate the conclusions of a life cycle assessment. in this arena?).

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Demand For Efficient Life-Cycle Building Management Processes – BIM, JOC, IPD – FIATECH PRESENTATION – 2012

Building Information Management

The later being largely responsible for the decades long declined in productivity within the construction sector throughout America. And, of course, buildings are a major consumer of petrochemical products… high energy users, and a primary source of green house gas and other emissions.

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Jim Nostedt on How High Performance Can Beat ?Code-Built Homes on Price

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Jim Nostedt: SEEFAR Building Analytics performs whole-building life-cycle costing, or the Total Cost of Building Ownership analysis, of new or existing buildings. However, when the focus of the whole building design and construction is shifted from the lowest first cost to the lowest life-cycle cost, everything changes.