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Collaboration and informed decision-making in the construction industry

Job Order Contracting

Cost visibilty and transparency promotes a culture of collaboration and informed decision-making and can ensure greater efficiency across the facilities management and AECOO sectors. Improving construction cost estimating requires collaboration, transparency, and a robust process. Collaboration involves both giving and receiving help.

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Emerging considerations in inclusive design

BD+C

Emerging considerations in inclusive design 0 qpurcell Thu, 05/02/2024 - 08:39 Architects Design elements that consider a diverse population of users make lives better. Airports Healthcare Facilities Hospital Design Trends Designers Architects Design elements that consider a diverse population of users make lives better.

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Designing better built environments for a neurodiverse world

BD+C

Designing better built environments for a neurodiverse world 0 qpurcell Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:30 Designers For most of human history, design has mostly considered “typical users” who are fully able-bodied without clinical or emotional disabilities.

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Innovative Job Order Contracting Information Management Solution

Job Order Contracting

The 4BT-PEP is a new, innovative Job Order Contracting Information Management Solution (JOCIMS). The 4BT JOCIMS enables owners, designers, engineers, contractors, and trades to collaborate and share project information within a common data environment (CDE), and in real-time, significantly improving outcomes.

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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. For the Make It Resilient 2024 contest , any extreme environment such as a desert, rainforest, deep ocean site, areas prone to flooding, or even another planet can be chosen.

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Integrated information, process-based, digital environment for LEAN collaborative construction project delivery

Job Order Contracting

Simply a better, more efficient wayt for working through the use of more standardized processes, information, and ongoing training. Resource must be used more efficiently, construction costs reduced, and designers, contractors and stakeholders are brought closer together. ss value expected from its digital transformation.”.

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Sustainable Facilities Management Practices

Job Order Contracting

Sustainable Facilities Management Practices involve a clear set of objectives, methods, and processes aimed at maximizing performance of the built environment with respect to economic and environmental resources in concert with meeting organizational mission needs.