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Measuring a building’s embodied carbon

Construction Specifier

From an environmental point of view, it is widely known buildings matter, as they consume nearly half the energy produced in the United States, use three-quarters of the electricity, and account for nearly half of all carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. Life-cycle assessment.

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Building Life-cycle Costs and Physical Asset Total Cost of Ownership Management (TCO)

Job Order Contracting

Creating and monitoring building life-cycle costs is a key component of physical asset total cost of ownership management. Initial design, procurement, and construction costs of a facility account for only 10%-20% of total capital expenditures throughout its useful life. Life-Cycle Cost Calculation.

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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. Division 16 - Electrical.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Carbon Footprint - A brief overview

Construction Cost Estimating

The carbon footprint is a division of the e cological footprint and of the more comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment(LCA). DraftLogic Electrical & ConEst IntelliBid 7.0 These greenhouse gases are converted into the amount of CO2 affecting the global warming. A carbon footprint is calculated for the time period of a year.

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NIBS – Building Innovation 2012 – January 7th-11th, 2012, Washington, D.C.

Building Information Management

Federal Government — the world’s largest facility owner and procurer of design and construction services. Find out first-hand all about these IE standards, as well as the new information exchanges for Building Programming (BPie), HVAC (HVACie), Electrical Systems (SPARKie), Building Automation Modeling (BAMie) and Water Systems (WSie).

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5 Types of Subcontractor Software Transforming the Trades 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With these tools, you can monitor and track every stage of a project’s life cycle from simple task management to completions, dependencies, and roadblocks in a unified and holistic context. . STRATUS from GTP Services is a fully customizable, model-centric procurement, planning and logistics platform. 5: Model-Centric Tools.

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2022

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Shawn Brennan, Continental Electrical Construction Company. Matt Allread, Gaylor Electric, Inc. Brian Harlow, Interstate Electrical Services . Corey Coleman, Piquette & Howard Electric Service, LLC. He introduced the data flow in building life cycle management from planning to construction execution.