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Designing higher education facilities without knowing the end users

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Designing higher education facilities without knowing the end users 0 dbarista Wed, 06/14/2023 - 14:29 Higher Education A team of architects with Page offers five important factors to consider when designing spaces for multiple—and potentially changing—stakeholders. Courtesy Page 2.

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Creating an Efficient FM Ecosystem – Key to Owner/Design-builder Alignment

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Creating an efficient FM ecosystem is critical to fostering owner and design/builder alignment. Lasting progressive change comes from people within the organization who buy into and carry out needed reforms. Training and education must be continuous, and empower participants to innovate and scale up ideas. Learn more?

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Why lab designers should aim to ‘speak the language’ of scientists

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Why lab designers should aim to ‘speak the language’ of scientists 0 qpurcell Mon, 04/22/2024 - 13:19 Laboratories Learning more about the scientific work being done in the lab gives designers of those spaces an edge, according to Adrian Walters, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal and Director of SMMA's Science & Technology team.

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Effective Marketing For Diverse Construction Job Categories

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Architects Design and plan construction projects, considering both aesthetic and functional aspects. Engineers (Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical) Civil engineers focus on the design and maintenance of infrastructure. Structural engineers design and analyze structures for stability and safety.

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A Real Property Owner’s Guide to Improving Construction Productivity

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This involves creating a guideline that takes an organization through a required change management process and established a foundation of valid, actionable information. The guideline comes in the form of an Operations Manual/Execution Guide as a component of a long-term multiparty agreement between owners and design-builders.

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Inclusive design requires relearning how we read space

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Inclusive design requires relearning how we read space 0 qpurcell Tue, 03/28/2023 - 13:20 Designers Pulling from his experience during a campus design workshop, David Johnson, AIA, LEED AP, encourages architects to better understand how to design spaces that are inclusive for everyone. This won’t happen automatically.

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Public Procurement of Construction Services

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Collaboration, Integrated Information and the Project Lifecycle in Building Design, Construction and Operation.” Advancing the Impact of Education, Training, and Professional Experience on Integrated Project Delivery.” References: AIA (2007). Construction Users Roundtable (CURT). Ballard, G., and Cho, S. Anderson, S., and Ballard, G.