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Construction Cost Knowledge Management

Job Order Contracting

The ability to clearly define detailed line item tasks defining the desired scope of work is critical to mitigating errors and omissions, reducing the number of change orders, as well as achieving defensible cost visibility and transparency. Technology alone, however, is not enough to harvest the value of cost knowledge management.

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Expert Advice for Reducing ?Risk of Cyberattacks

Pro Builder

He has published research papers regarding community and organizational resilience and regularly presents his findings at national and international conferences. . RM: Very often those businesses don’t have large or sophisticated IT or risk management departments that are actively engaged in maintaining defensive security for the business.

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HUB's Raymond Monteith Offers Expert Advice for Reducing ?Risk of Cyberattacks

Pro Builder

He has published research papers regarding community and organizational resilience and regularly presents his findings at national and international conferences. . RM: Very often those businesses don’t have large or sophisticated IT or risk management departments that are actively engaged in maintaining defensive security for the business.

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Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management

Job Order Contracting

Common data environment (CSI Uniformat, MasterFormat, shared terms, definitions in plain English, etc.). Financial transparency (locally researched, defensible shared unit price cost books from independent and objective sources ). C o llect defensible data and c o nsi d e r other alternatives. Presentation.

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LEED Abandoned by DOD?

Building Information Management

Dorothy Robyn Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies on March 7, 2012 to present the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget request for the Department of Defense programs to support installations, facility (..)

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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

Finding 1: The committee did not identify any research studies that conducted a traditional benefit-cost analysis to determine the long-term net present value savings, return on investment, or long-term payback related to the use of ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2010, 2010, ASHRAE Standard 189.1-2011,

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

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Furthermore, the pressure put on the environment is greater than ever, and the damages done to the planet are indisputable. AEC companies across the globe are now inundated with new and pressing questions in this fast-paced environment. We intend to draw lessons from these cases and present our research results. How to do it?