BD+C

MAY 10, 2024

Nature as the city: Why it’s time for a new framework to guide development 0 qpurcell Fri, 05/10/2024 - 09:05 Sustainable Development NBBJ leaders Jonathan Ward and Margaret Montgomery explore five inspirational ideas they are actively integrating into projects to ensure more healthy, natural cities.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 18, 2024

Infrastructure investment has become a cornerstone for economic growth and development in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Our latest white paper, ‘Building Net Zero and The Role of Data in Green Construction’ , investigates the current landscape for sustainability in construction across APAC – as well as potential solutions.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

When local and national lockdowns began to come into effect in early 2020, many factories reduced their production output as demand lowered. When it comes to construction, are we at a tipping point towards necessitating sustainable solutions for good? Alternative materials – the answer to our commercial and sustainability problems?

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BD+C

JANUARY 2, 2024

Laboratories Designers Codes and Standards Mass Timber Building Materials Building Technology With mass timber’s growing popularity in the built environment, its intersection with the life sciences market offers an untapped potential for sustainable innovation. Here are five reasons why. Rendering courtesy SGA.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 21, 2021

Construction and the built environment account for nearly 38% of all energy-related carbon emissions around the world. And what’s more, we’re battling low productivity and a growing skills shortage. From an environmental, social and economic perspective, it’s simply not sustainable. . There are also commercial benefits.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Marc Asnis, AICP MFPRO+ Blog University Buildings Healthcare Facilities Mixed-Use Apartments Retail Centers Shopping Centers Designers Architects Adaptive Reuse Exterior Restoration Interior Architecture Sustainability Sustainable Development The death of the 20th century shopping mall is evident all across the country.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem It's going to take the efforts of government and the private sector to mitigate the climate-damaging problem of embodied carbon, says this building sustainability expert, Brent Trenga. The CODE Building in Charlottesville, Va.,

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BD+C

APRIL 20, 2023

13 trends, technologies, and strategies to expect in 2023 0 qpurcell Thu, 04/20/2023 - 08:21 Sustainability Biophilic design, microgrids, and decarbonization—these are three of the trends, technologies, and strategies IMEG’s market and service leaders believe are poised to have a growing impact on the built environment.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And with all the advances in technology, productivity in construction has been relatively flat and suffers from producing a huge amount of waste. We’ll explore all corners of the built environment, from commercial to healthcare and industrial to infrastructure, to see each industry’s approach to IC. Infrastructure .

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CK Power

AUGUST 2, 2023

Some end customers are prioritizing environmental sustainability when evaluating contractors or products. And overwhelming buzz surrounds electrification of infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing — name an industry. What environment will you deploy the equipment in? Regulations are tightening.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 31, 2023

The past is scarred by decades of declining productivity and conflict. Many of the industry’s productivity problems can be traced back to bad data and poor processes, which hit the budget through delays and the need for rework. A vicious circle Productivity is a big concern in the construction industry.

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BD+C

MAY 25, 2023

Polly Osborne Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Engineers Architects Regulations Biophilic Design Sustainable Development Sustainable Design and Construction Urban Planning When we spend time in nature, we instinctively feel its value. There’s more focus than ever on the environmental impact of construction projects.

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Construction Specifier

MARCH 12, 2021

This includes building controls, lighting, electrical and digital infrastructure, audio/visual (A/V), and other aspects of the structure. The demand for high-performance building controls, lighting, electrical, and digital infrastructure is rising. Environmental and material health impact of building materials.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 9, 2023

Khalil Shaiful, the Deputy Director, Group Level, at Boustead Projects Singapore, firmly believes in keeping a pulse on bleeding-edge technology and innovative workflows to increase productivity in the construction industry. As a result, I’m committed to driving change and improving efficiency and productivity across businesses.

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 6, 2012

Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment comes down to analyzing large data sets— big data—from several knowledge domains. 3D visualization software products currently promoted as BIM (Building Information Modeling) are not solutions for this task. Collaboration.

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Job Order Contracting

APRIL 10, 2019

Nonetheless, it would be incorrect to assume that technology alone will solve the AECOO’s dismal legacy of low productivity, waste, and legal disputes. While technology use is accelerating, similar improvement is output are not. All the tools and services are readily available to support owners in doing just that.

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Building Information Management

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What are Facility/Infrastructure Life Cycle Costs? Is BIM the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology? What are the primary competencies and knowledge domains required to support life-cycle management of buildings and other physical infrastructure? What is life-cycle management?

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Building Information Management

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What are Facility/Infrastructure Life Cycle Costs? Is BIM the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology? What are the primary competencies and knowledge domains required to support life-cycle management of buildings and other physical infrastructure? What is life-cycle management?

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Life Cycle Environment BIM Management 40

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 24, 2023

The infrastructure pipeline ballooned to $248 billion in the 2021-22 State and Federal Budgets, and movement to net zero is ramping up across the board. Building sustainability with digital twins Twins plan out more resilient projects which leads to better use of finite resources. Will workers be less productive in extreme heat?

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 1, 2019

Most of these results define LEAN Construction as a variant of the following ” Lean construction is based on the lean manufacturing popularized by the Toyota Production System developed by Taiichi Ohno after World War II. Search “LEAN Construction” in Google and you will get over 11 million hits.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 12, 2023

He has worked across multiple markets with governments on high-profile transformation and infrastructure projects, including the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. We must also recognize that sustainability is about people as much as anything else. We need to be smarter about how we use the resources available.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 26, 2023

While productivity has never been so high, profits and margins are still very low for most businesses. With a strong presence in over 20 countries, Ferrovial is known for its expertise in managing large-scale infrastructure projects, such as airports, highways, and railways. What is our mission?

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 17, 2022

“ESG- Using Environmental, Social and Governance factors to evaluate companies and countries on how far advanced they are with sustainability. Modify and refurbish instead of demolishing or adding to avoid unnecessary production and transport of building materials. (SEC 17 CFR 210, 229, 232, 239, and 249). ” ISO 14064.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 25, 2021

To shift to a sustainable trajectory, we need to massively step up investment in clean energy technologies—especially renewables and energy efficiency.”. Innovative and bold projects like FPL’s installation of 30 million solar panels by 2030 and the Manatee battery facility are helping to increase the region’s renewable energy production.

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Business Facilities

JULY 25, 2019

The Ontario government is opening the forest industry to jobs and promoting the use of sustainable renewable resources by investing in its first cross laminated timber plant. It will provide an environmentally friendly product that will be used to construct buildings and other infrastructure projects in Canada and the U.S.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 17, 2022

The construction industry is ever-evolving, with a heightened focus on staying agile, efficient, and sustainable. Aecon is a Canadian leader in the development and construction of infrastructure. I studied computer-aided product design and engineering in the United Kingdom. The degree was sponsored by Ford.

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Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Over the past few years real property owners are being pressured more than ever to transition sustainable economic and environmental facilities management policies and programs. Many commercial real property owners and facilities managers will require building competencies in all aspects of built environment life-cycle management.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The idea of biomimetic design—using nature as a teacher—can help us create an adaptive and resilient infrastructure. Biomimetic design is a tool to solve sustainability problems. All connected in an infrastructural web that is woven through with wildlife corridors and urban agriculture.” Bosque Vertical Milan. million plants.

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Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 10, 2021

Little benefit would be achieved by attempting to directly apply the Toyota Production System (TPS), or similar approaches to the AEC sector, exclusive of as a general background learning exercise. Is Build-Own-Operate-Transfer a Solution to Local Governments Infrastructure Funding Problems? Lean Maturity, Lean Sustainability.

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Construction Procurement Contract Management 164

GCP Applied Technologies

AUGUST 19, 2022

Concrete barriers are significantly less likely to require repair after sustaining impact, and therefore significantly reduce costs, improve the flow of traffic and improve road worker and vehicle occupant safety by reducing the need for lane closures. . Not only is the process much more efficient, the product is more consistent.

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Concrete Management Transportation Roads 78

Construction Cost Estimating

MAY 5, 2011

Corporate Sustainability (CS) and Corporate social responsibility (CSR). Now a day’s the world’s leading companies are taking significant steps to improve their “Corporate Sustainability (CS) performance to manage business responsibly, create value in business and ensure their capital growth. adsense analytic.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Right now, I'm the group manager responsible for a team within our Toyota North America Production Engineering division called Digital Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, or DIME for short. This includes Digital Engineering systems supporting our Production Engineers. Outside companies call us the translator team.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But just as projects need the right teams to do the job, businesses also require the right set of technology partners and integrations to navigate today’s evolving economic environment. . Staying profitable in today’s economic environment is an ongoing challenge. Payapps: Creating Faster Payment Cycles .

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 26, 2022

Sustainable design connects and unifies RKD’s multi-service, multi-sector approach. RKD’s project typologies include data centres, mission-critical infrastructure, pharmaceutical facilities, commercial offices, residential and mixed-use development, healthcare, and higher education buildings. Driving the Productivity of Design Teams.

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Building Information Management

JANUARY 29, 2013

It is less costly and more sustainable to reuse existing buildings. With 345,000 buildings, with over 105,000 buildings more than 50 years old, the importance of efficient renovation, repair, and sustainability of existing buildings is paramount. Sustainment/Status Quo. DoD Building Treatment Terms. Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But alongside growth comes change, and firms are seeking to lay down solid foundations to ensure they can successfully sustain transformation. In this context, getting recruitment right and increasing staff productivity are vital. Talent and infrastructure come out on top.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bamboo is proving its worth as a sustainable material. Its strongest assets are carbon sequestration and helping to clean the environment. Early Asian bamboo settlements were always built in harmony with local ecosystems, resulting in a balanced built environment. Image © Eric Dinardi. Image Courtesy of IBUKU.

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