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LEED, Sustainability, and the Federal Government – Report Card – 2012

Building Information Management

Further the GSA has yet to get control of its inventory and related efficient use of space. Department of Defense. Department of Defense. The Department of Homeland Security and Office of Personnel Management scored poorly, while the Army Corps of Engineers curiously scored the worst, with red marks in all categories.

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Building smarter healthcare through better healthcare interior design

The Korte Company

Somewhat related to evidence-based design is cleanability, arguably the most important defense against spreading diseases in spaces inherently full of them. If this existing inventory still contributes to the design unity of the space—and it’s still in good shape—consider reusing it. Cleanability.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

We previously reported in 2018 on these unreliable data and made 15 SMS is a tool for asset life-cycle management that produces multi-year condition trends and investment requirements. released and first version commercially available 2003: NAVY funds development of BUILDER 3.0 (web-based

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A Primer on LEAN Construction Delivery Methods

Building Information Management

In fact, JOC was actively being used by 1988, especially by the Department of Defense, and has evolved greatly since that time. Learn from the outcomes of the processes and improve problem areas (transport, inventory, motion, waiting, defects/rework/change orders. LEAN – Lessons Learned. Incremental improvements over time.

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A Primer on LEAN Construction Delivery Methods

Building Information Management

In fact, JOC was actively being used by 1988, especially by the Department of Defense, and has evolved greatly since that time. Learn from the outcomes of the processes and improve problem areas (transport, inventory, motion, waiting, defects/rework/change orders. LEAN – Lessons Learned. Incremental improvements over time.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Deke is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a BArch, he has done post graduate work at the National Defense University. Russ Manning , Department of Defense Health Systems. Healthcare BIM Consortium.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Deke is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a BArch, he has done post graduate work at the National Defense University. Russ Manning , Department of Defense Health Systems. Healthcare BIM Consortium.

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