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Alternative Project Delivery for Construction – Benefits, Tools, and Resources

Job Order Contracting

Leverage LEAN Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery to Consistently Achieve Best Value. From concept to completion and beyond, LEAN alternative delivery, including IPD and LEAN JOC, improves the efficiency and effectiveness of virtually any repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, or new construction task.

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GHG, SHG, SEC Regulations – Facilities Regs and Reporting Changes Coming Soon

Job Order Contracting

“ESG- Using Environmental, Social and Governance factors to evaluate companies and countries on how far advanced they are with sustainability. The proposed rules draw from existing disclosure frameworks including the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. ” ISO 14064.

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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. Major Trends: Shift to life-cycle cost visibility for new construction, renovation, repair, operations, and maintenance.

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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. Major Trends: Shift to life-cycle cost visibility for new construction, renovation, repair, operations, and maintenance.

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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. Efficient: can draw multiple conclusions out of dataset. Shorter procurement times. Appropriate: measures the right things.

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BIM Strategy for the Built Environment

Building Information Management

Cultural Fit – Collaboration, Communication, and Transparency are REQUIRED, Involve all Shareholders (Owners (senior management, FM, capital planning, procurement, building users…), AE’s, Contractors, BPMs (business product manufacturers), Oversight Groups, Community …). Economic Fit. 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.