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Beyond Green – High Performance Buildings, BIM, and Life-cycle Facility Management

Building Information Management

Let’s face it, LEED is a great marketing tool, but NOT the solution. “Kudos” to LEED for building awareness and addressing the need to focus upon sustainability of the built environment! Efficient ongoing life-cycle management of facilities is the key to sustainability. Why not?

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” Evidence-based ” Life-cycle Federal Facility Management, BIM, and the Status Quo – NIBS, FFC

Building Information Management

Key Topics / Take Aways: Identify and advance technologies, processes, and management practices that improve the performance of federal facilities over their entire life-cycle, from planning to disposal. Requirements for facility life-cycle management, efficient repair/maintenance/sustainability, BIM.

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Enabling real-time collaboration in Egyptian construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Not only that, but the fact that there are no conflicts between different versions being worked on by different teams also saves huge amounts of time, stress and rework, says Ahmed Nafea, Building Information Modelling (BIM) manager in Polar Management, the project management arm of Redcon.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

These factors include… poor formal and professional education in the domain, low investment in research and development, deep rooted project culture, perceived long life-cycle of associated return on investment, resistance from construction projects’ participants and stakeholders, and lack of real property owner leadership and competency.

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The Reasons BIM is Going Nowhere Fast

Building Information Management

The Consultative Council provides findings and recommendations to the President and Congress on issues impacting the built environment. Government should develop incentives for state and local governments to require water metering of all buildings and to adopt and enforce comprehensive “green” building or plumbing codes.

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10 Construction Certifications and Where to Get Them

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Construction Management Certification Institute (CMCI). Green Building Council). Project Management Institute (PMI). Green Building Council). LEED seems to be the most commonly utilized green building ranking system in the world. Project Management Institute (PMI). Bachelor’s Degree.

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Top Sustainable Construction Materials to Build a Better Future 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

According to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme : Some 40-50% of total flow of raw materials in the global economy is used in the manufacturing of building products and components, adding significant amounts and energy and greenhouse gas emissions to the life cycle impact of buildings. The good news?