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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Educational and training programs must focus upon asset life-cycle management and modeling. Overall focus must shift from first-cost mentality to life-cycle/total-cost-of-ownership. Timely, accurate, repeatable, and verifiable information based upon standardized terms, definitions, and data architectures.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

The definition used in this report is that an eco-building minimises resource use (in construction and life-cycle) while also providing a comfortable environment in which to live. Planning favours buildings which conform to existing styles and norms and building regulations need to be negotiated.

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Job Order Contracting – Best Practices Implementation

Building Information Management

Labor costs will be reimbursed to the Contractor at the unit price rate multiplied by the Contractor negotiated coefficient(s). Supervisory costs are to be part of Contractor’s negotiated coefficient and will not be reimbursed as a separate labor. Definition and refinement of requirements. Subcontracts. Site investigation.

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A Primer on MasterFormat & Improving Construction Project Collaboration

Building Information Management

00 23 00 Procurement Definitions. design/negotiate/build). design/negotiate/build). 00 52 16 Agreement Form – Cost-Plus (design/bid/build or design/negotiate/build). 00 52 17 Subcontract Form – Cost-Plus (design/bid/build or design/negotiate/build). 00 23 00 Procurement Definitions. Requirements.

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A Primer on MasterFormat & Improving Construction Project Collaboration

Building Information Management

00 23 00 Procurement Definitions. design/negotiate/build). design/negotiate/build). 00 52 16 Agreement Form – Cost-Plus (design/bid/build or design/negotiate/build). 00 52 17 Subcontract Form – Cost-Plus (design/bid/build or design/negotiate/build). 00 23 00 Procurement Definitions. Requirements.

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Public Law 111-308 – Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act – FBPTA – CORE COMPETENCIES

Building Information Management

o O perating, Maintaining and Testing Life Safety. o Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) o Life-­?Cycle Cycle Assessment (LCA). Demonstrate the ability to work with Facilities team to negotiate rates and discounts. The term Sustainability applies within the definition of High Performance Buildings from EISA 07. “A