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Construction Cost Estimating Trends – 2014 and Beyond

Building Information Management

Demand for higher productivity in the construction sector and environmental sustainability is reaching a critical level and causing significant changes in both construction cost estimating and the AEC industry as a whole. Emphasis upon estimate and project sharing, collaboration, and reuse (vs. eTakeoff /BIM/QTO).

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Construction Cost Estimating Trends – 2014 and Beyond

Building Information Management

Demand for higher productivity in the construction sector and environmental sustainability is reaching a critical level and causing significant changes in both construction cost estimating and the AEC industry as a whole. Emphasis upon estimate and project sharing, collaboration, and reuse (vs. eTakeoff /BIM/QTO).

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6 Green Building Materials and How They are Used

Chianelli Estimating

Regulatory mandates and improved affordability of green, sustainable and eco-friendly materials, leading to them to be used more in construction. These materials are great at reducing net energy use and can be more eco-friendly across their entire life cycles. Materials that Reduce Energy Consumption. Solar Shingles.

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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. How many contractor estimates have been issued? What is the average time from RFQ to contractor estimate?

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Construction specifications - vital.

Construction Cost Estimating

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. It consists of 50 Divisions , to be applied for integrating facility life cycle and maintenance information into the building knowledge base. CSI also publish GreenFormat , an online database that includes sustainable product attributes. Estimating Sheets Sample. Estimating Vidoe.

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BIM Strategy for the Built Environment

Building Information Management

Implement Projects – Integrated Project Delivery (Job Order Contracting – JOC – renovation, repair, sustainability, minor new construction, IPD – new construction). as individual drawings, could all be produced directly from the model as a “view” of the required information.” – RICS. Develop Implementation Plan.

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The Great Carbon Reckoning

Natural Building

A common complaint among sustainability leaders in the battle to draw down embodied carbon emissions is that they’re hard to measure, certainly more so than energy usage. with credits for procuring low-carbon materials and compiling a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for projects.