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Digital Twin – Aligning the physical and functional status of buildings and other physical objects with a corresponding digital model makes it possible to monitor and optimally manage capital reinvestment throughout their life-cycle.

Job Order Contracting

Aligning the physical and functional status of buildings and other physical objects with a corresponding digital model makes it possible to monitor and optimally manage capital reinvestment throughout their life-cycle. Tools and support services are readily available to develop and maintain “digital twins” of physical assets.

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Construction Cost Knowledge Management

Job Order Contracting

Information must be presented in plain English, using industry standard terms and definitions, and organized in a standard data format (CSI Masterformat). The use of national average cost databases and/or location factors, or parametric cost models are insufficient. has proven relatively fruitless.

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Definition of BIM – Building Information Modeling – Defintions from Various Sources

Building Information Management

‘Building Information Modelling (BIM) is digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility creating a shared knowledge resource for information about it forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle, from earliest conception to demolition.” ” – RICS.

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Integrated Project Delivery Software and Support Services

Job Order Contracting

IPD software and support services provide an environment with a collaborative focus upon requirements definition and successful repair, renovation, and new construction project completion. Defined common data environment. Common Data Environment. Key performance indicators. Sample High-level Workflow.

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Tired of Late, Over-Budget, and Just Plain LOUSY Facilities Repair & Renovation Outcomes?

Job Order Contracting

Individual projects WILL NOT consistently achieve bst value outcomes unless they are conducted within an overall programmatic environment! Disengage your organization from traditional and hostile, contracting environments, and move to robust collaborative and integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery environments.

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Debunking another BIM myth: FM enabled BIM models do not automatically pop out of Construction BIM models

DebunkTheBIM

In all mainstream BIM strategies, FM models sit at the end of the chain of Ds – numbered from the 6 th D onwards, following the 3 spatial Ds, cost and time. Waste of modelling efforts’ is a major ‘thing’ among those that know little of the realities of BIMming but are deeply invested into it.

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Better Manage Construction Costs Schedules and Quality

Job Order Contracting

80% of cost overruns are due to poor scope of work definition, and associated inadequate and/or flawed construction cost estimates and otherwise poor planning, procurement, and project delivery management. Fundamental Principals and Components of a Lean Integrated Planning, Procurement and Project Delivery Environment.

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