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System Thinking is a Practical Approach to Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Construction

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System thinking is a practical approach to facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction, offering consistent quality delivery on time and on budget. System thinking is the simultaneous consideration of outcomes, means, methods, constraints, and team interactions in pursuit of continuous improvement.

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Sustainable Facilities Management – Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Builds

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Attainment of sustainable facilities management involves creating an environment for internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams that fosters productivity, communication, collaboration, and innovation.

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

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Don’t “reinvent the wheel”, take advantage of current available LEAN integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery tools for all repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build requirements (examples: Integrated project delivery and LEAN job order contracting). Continuously build and retain knowledge.

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Renovating A Heritage Building

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If you’re like me and your project experience has included renovation of a heritage building you’ll understand that there are some key challenges related to them. So what exactly is a heritage building, how does one go about renovating a heritage building and what are some of the complexities related to it?

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Value Generation in Public Sector Facilities Management

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Fortunately, the challenges for generating value from the ongoing numerous repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction projects can be significantly reduced through the application of system thinking and associated robust processes, workflows, and tools.

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The smartest ceiling in education

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and Canada Construction Forecast, education is expected to grow by two percent for 2020 alone, rising to three percent for 2021, 2022, and 2023. K-12 public schools are currently in need of renovation or modernization investments at an estimated cost of nearly $200 billion. According to the 2020 Fails Management Institute (FMI) U.S.

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2020 LEAN Integrated Construction Delivery

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LEAN Integrated Construction Delivery has provide to enable the consistent achievement of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction projects on-time and on-budget. With greater focus upon education, awareness building, and improved real property owner leadership, the traditional low levels of productivity can be mitigated.