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LEAN Construction Project Delivery and Facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Life-cycle Management

Job Order Contracting

Common terms, definitions, & data formats — Common data environment (CDE). Life-cycle Management. COBie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers. Clearly defined and documented roles, responsibilities, workflows.

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2021 Facilities Repair Renovation and New Construction Cost Management

Job Order Contracting

With appropriate levels of owner leadership and competency and currently available tools and support services efficient facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction (life-cycle management) can be achieved. These environments, when properly deployed and managed, drive unparalleled levels of efficiency quality.

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The future of sustainable and affordable housing

Lets Build

Global warming is one of the main reasons why sustainable housing is ideal for future construction. Sustainable homes do not only help the environment by reducing the overall environmental impact during and after construction, but it contributes towards many social and economic benefits. Read also: What is Green Construction.

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Building a Straw/Clay House in Canada

Natural Building

Ten years ago when Tim Kroeker’s last child finally graduated high school, he and his wife decided it was now or never to follow through on their many years-long dream of building a house…an alternative house…in “the country”. and helped friends follow their alternative house building dreams.

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Demand For Efficient Life-Cycle Building Management Processes – BIM, JOC, IPD – FIATECH PRESENTATION – 2012

Building Information Management

Field specific variables, such as weather, on-going operations, soils conditions, security, safety, site lay-out, environment protections and other contexts must be considered as well as the means and methods of work execution. A “FACEBOOK for Facilities Construction and Life-cycle Operations” is on the horizon.

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2014 – Top Ten Reasons – Why C-Level Execs Don’t Listen to Facility Managers / Facility Management

Building Information Management

Failure to quantify risk, opportunities, productivity, linkages of built environment to organization success/failure. First-cost vs. life-cycle cost approach. Failure to compare in-house and service provider material, equipment, and labor costs with standards such as RSMeans Cost Data. Not speaking the right language.

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Materials for low cost house construction

Construction Cost Estimating

Low Cost Housing is a concept of reducing the construction cost in the construction Industry through the use of locally available materials with new technology and upgraded skills. In low cost housing building material cost is less but it does not mean that these buildings are constructed with cheap building materials of low quality.