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Construction Cost Estimating Trends – 2014 and Beyond

Building Information Management

Major Trends: Shift to life-cycle cost visibility for new construction, renovation, repair, operations, and maintenance. Required use of reference cost data across all sectors. Decision support systems will be outcome-driven with life cycle cost, performance, function, and reuse consideration appropriately weighted.

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Construction Cost Estimating Trends – 2014 and Beyond

Building Information Management

Major Trends: Shift to life-cycle cost visibility for new construction, renovation, repair, operations, and maintenance. Required use of reference cost data across all sectors. Decision support systems will be outcome-driven with life cycle cost, performance, function, and reuse consideration appropriately weighted.

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BIM Objects, Data, and Information – More than a 3D Pretty Picture – Soooo Much More!

Building Information Management

In traditional documentation we would ‘say it once, and in the right place’, however with BIM, we want to ‘author it once, and in the right place, to be able to report it many times’ Figure 1: Appropriate location of information. A reference to the object for the user if one or more is used with the project.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Project Delivery Method

Autodesk Construction Cloud

While a project’s ultimate goal is a successful completion, the steps it takes to get there are critical to profits and project’s life cycle. Sometimes owners require the ability to fast-track construction before all drawings and support plans, such as engineering documents, are complete. Design-Bid-Build (DBB).

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Accompanying the technical documentation are instructions for creating the HVACie files using commercial design software. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication. 2012-03-01-CERL-CR-12-2-ModelView.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Accompanying the technical documentation are instructions for creating the HVACie files using commercial design software. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication. 2012-03-01-CERL-CR-12-2-ModelView.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Construction specifications - vital.

Construction Cost Estimating

A specification (often abbreviated as spec ) can be termed as a type of a technical standard to be referenced by a contract or procurement document. It consists of 50 Divisions , to be applied for integrating facility life cycle and maintenance information into the building knowledge base. 01090 References. REFERENCES.