Building Information Management

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What are Facility/Infrastructure Life Cycle Costs? What is life-cycle management? Is BIM the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology? What are the benefits of life-cycle cost management vs. a “first-cost” focus? Answers to the above: 1.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Environment BIM Management 40

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. Evidence-based Management. Granularity.

Life Cycle 81

Life Cycle BIM Environment Management 81

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 23, 2017

BIM, LEAN Construction, and a Common Data Environment (CDE). BIM, LEAN Construction, and a Common Data Environment (CDE) are all core elements to improving collaboration, productivity, quality, and overall satisfaction. Learn more… 2017 BIM, LEAN Construction, and a Common Data Environment (CDE).

Environment 100

Environment BIM Life Cycle Construction 100

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 4, 2020

Mutual trust/respect Shared risk/reward Performance-based reward system Longer-term relationships Life-cycle cost goal versus first cost consideration only Enabling technology. The post LEAN IDIQ = Public Sector Construction Productivity Gains appeared first on 4BT. Via Four BT, LLC (www.4bt.us)

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Products Procurement Construction Life Cycle 149

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Improve Construction Productivity Via Relationship Management has proven to be highly successful. Here are the 4 Steps to Improving Owner/Vendor Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Construction Productivity. The post Improve Construction Productivity Via Relationship Management appeared first on 4BT. Learn more?

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Products Management Life Cycle Construction 100

Building Information Management

APRIL 12, 2016

Our education and professional development systems are failing to properly address the fundamental concepts of life-cycle and total-cost-of-ownership management specific to the built environment.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Management Products Education 40

Building Information Management

APRIL 12, 2016

Our education and professional development systems are failing to properly address the fundamental concepts of life-cycle and total-cost-of-ownership management specific to the built environment.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Management Products Education 40

Building Information Management

MARCH 10, 2014

Current Business Environment – Deconstruction of the AECOO Sector (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner). Patterns are Now Transparent – Cost, Function, Productivity, … Computer Software Applications and Traditional Databases are Dead – Being Replaced by Plug-ins and On-demand Data.

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Life Cycle Environment Software Software 45

Building Information Management

APRIL 28, 2014

Technology is not the primary obstacle to efficient life-cycle management of the built environment! The roadblocks to increased collaboration, transparency, and productivity within the AECOO sector are as follows: 1. Current focus upon first-costs vs. life-cycle costs. Different meanings for the same parts.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Environment BIM Management 40

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 9, 2017

Here are a few lessons learned with respect to improving construction productivity, and overall life-cycle management of the built environment. Thus, a road map to improving the woefully low productivity associated with the AECOO sector is there for everyone’s use. All, however REQUIRE the following….

Contract 100

Contract Products Life Cycle Procurement 100

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 20, 2023

Locally researched labor, material, equipment, and productivity data is essential in the devlopement of a credible construction cost estimate. The use of national average cost data with or without area location factoring (City Cost Index, CCI, Area Cost Factor, ACF…) will introduce significant error.

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Estimating CSI Life Cycle Construction 217

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 5, 2022

Robust, integrated LEAN asset planning, procurement, and project delivery solutions are readily available to establish efficient physical asset life cycle management programs. Common data environment, including detailed line item locally researched unit price construction cost data.

Management 223

Management Procurement Life Cycle Equity 223

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

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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Life Cycle BIM Management Green 77

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Understanding facility life-cycle costs is a core component of any BIM strategy for Owners, AE’s, Contractors, Subs, Business Product Manufacturers, Oversight Groups, Building Users, … or any stakeholder. Maintenance, Repair – Routine, Preventive, Unscheduled (typically expenditures of $10,000 per job or less).

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle BIM Renovating Foundation 40

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Understanding facility life-cycle costs is a core component of any BIM strategy for Owners, AE’s, Contractors, Subs, Business Product Manufacturers, Oversight Groups, Building Users, … or any stakeholder. Maintenance, Repair – Routine, Preventive, Unscheduled (typically expenditures of $10,000 per job or less).

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle BIM Renovating Foundation 40

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. BLM – Building Life-cycle Management requires fundamental process changes within all participating organizations / stakeholders and the associated integration and use of multiple competencies, processes, and technologies.

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Life Cycle BIM Environment Management 45

Construction Marketing

JUNE 13, 2022

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a certification that aids in improving building performance and reduces the impact on the environment. It provides guidelines to create an efficient and sustainable built environment that encourages market competitiveness and public health improvement. Water Efficiency.

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Certification Design Environment Sustainability 156

Building Information Management

MAY 13, 2013

Facility management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology. Owners must clearly push for BIM and Life-cycle Facility Management. – Definition of Facility Management – IFMA. – NIBS.

Life Cycle 58

Life Cycle Modeling Management BIM 58

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 20, 2020

Public and private sector real property owners and facilities management professionals can leverage LEAN JOC to achieve more efficient use of existing capital resources in a full transparent and compliant planning and operating environment. Asset Life-cycle Total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) Management www.4BT.us. A PROGRAM STRATEGY.

Contract 165

Contract Life Cycle Environment Renovating 165

Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Sustainable construction considers the entire life cycle of a structure and aims to reduce the environmental damage at every stage, from the initial choice of products to demolition. The post Sustainably built environments: specifying low-carbon concrete appeared first on Construction Specifier.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Concrete Environment Life Cycle 52

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 20, 2020

Public and private sector real property owners and facilities management professionals can leverage LEAN JOC to achieve more efficient use of existing capital resources in a full transparent and compliant planning and operating environment. The approach invests more resources earlier in the Project life-cycle.

Contract 132

Contract Life Cycle Environment Renovating 132

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 17, 2020

All of the necessary tools and services are readily available to maximize productivity and overall levels of satisfaction via LEAN integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery. Both the 4BT OpenBUILD(TM) and 4BT OpenJOC systems incorporate the following within a collaborative, fully transparent, and compliant environment.

Life Cycle 132

Life Cycle Procurement Documentation Construction 132

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 6, 2016

. – Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Facilities Management, & Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment. The combination of information related to all aspects of physical assets life-cycle is best called a physical asset model.

Drafting 100

Drafting Life Cycle Construction Modeling 100

Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

He began his career 20 years ago as a technical production architect and project manager. He is a strong advocate for owners, striving to eliminate the costly duplication of efforts in project execution, and move closer to the ideal built environment consisting of true buildable design followed by an IoT-enabled digital twin deliverable.

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Virgin Islands Autodesk Puerto Rico Samoa 411

Building Information Management

MARCH 19, 2013

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges. INTRODUCTION.

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Life Cycle Management BIM Engineering 53

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 18, 2020

Building an integrated facilities knowledge management / LEAN environment is far from complex. Life-cycle total-cost-of-ownership asset management and LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery methods integrate People, Process, Information, and Technology. Technology, however, is secondary to process, and not the driver.

Management 150

Management Procurement Life Cycle Environment 150

Building Information Management

JUNE 20, 2012

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. prioritizing).

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Life Cycle BIM Management Inspections 61

Building Information Management

JULY 22, 2015

Owners are the stewards of the build environment. The role of a real property owner is to facilitate the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment supported and/or enabled by digital technology, within the context of their mission and the community at large. a life-cycle cost perspective versus first-costs.

Environment 40

Environment Life Cycle Management Products 40

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Multiple competencies/disciplines, business domains, and technologies are required to to ensure optimal functionality of the built environment. There are currently at least three proven LEAN methods relevant to this discussion: Life-cycle total cost-of-ownership modeling and management. Integrated Projects Delivery.

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Renovating Life Cycle Construction Management 100

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 25, 2019

Talking about collaboration and actually working in a truly collaborative environment supported by LEAN processes, workflows, current actionable and standardized information and digital technology are two very different things. We at Four BT and our partners at Building in Cloud , have been inspired by this concept from the beginning.

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BIM Life Cycle Environment Visualization 130

Job Order Contracting

MAY 12, 2020

Collaborative environment – Even if there is only one estimator, it is critical to share current, actionable information with multiple internal and external parties. Here is a recommended list of considerations if you are seeking the best construction cost estimating solution for your organization.

Estimating 149

Estimating Construction Life Cycle Documentation 149

BD+C

JULY 10, 2014

As a Saint-Gobain company, Vetrotech Saint–Gobain innovates when it comes to caring for the environment. Vetrotech is the first fire-rated glass company in the world to have made a comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) of fire-rated glazing products. Exclude Content: Yes. Building Materials'

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Life Cycle Products Fabrication Innovation 49

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

with the result being improved overall productivity. I have dedicated a fair portion of my life to improving physical asset life-cycle total cost of ownership management. The issue with the endemic lack of productivity across the AECOO sector has little to do with technology related issues.

Life Cycle 115

Life Cycle Procurement Renovating Budgeting 115

Viewpoint Construction Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Data and documents are shared via a common data environment. Common Data Environment (CDE). The common data environment is one location holding all the information for a specific project. Recording and reporting of product configuration is called configuration status accounting. Life-Cycle Assessment.

BIM 139

BIM Life Cycle Viewpoint Modeling 139

BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The built environment generates 42% of annual global CO 2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. As part of this initiative, the General Services Administration is proposing a “substantially lower” standard for materials and products as defined by a global warming potential. The CODE Building in Charlottesville, Va.,

Procurement 52

Procurement Life Cycle Construction Materials 52

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 16, 2018

LEAN construction adoption rates need to increase significantly in order to achieve any measurable improvement in productivity. The AECOO industry would be much better served if Owners took on their responsibility as stakeholders of the built environment. Common Data Environment (CDE) – Locally researched unit price book (UPB).

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Environment Procurement 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 20, 2017

Until Owners and Facilities Management improves their leadership skills and overall competency with respect to life-cycle management of the built environment, waste and low productivity will remain rampant in the construction sector. Focus must shift from the prevalent “first cost mentality” to “life-cycle cost” planning.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Procurement Architecture 100