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The Great Carbon Reckoning

Natural Building

While journalists keep repeating the refrain that the built environment accounts for nearly 40 percent of the annual global emissions pie, the public is waking up to the ways conventional materials like concrete and steel expand that slice. A bamboo unit undergoes a stress test at the Materials and Design Lab at Virginia Tech.

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Capturing a Treasure Trove of Data Insights With Digital Twin

Construction Business Owner

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. He began his career 20 years ago as a technical production architect and project manager.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

Business Facilities

We have their full product life cycle and tools here with kiosks and other types of interface points where people can actually touch and feel those types of solutions to understand how they work. The Kauffman Index of Growth Entrepreneurship ranks Virginia number one for startup growth in the country. “Our

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Leigh Lally , Virginia Tech. . Labs 21 National Conference 2012 – “High Performance Healthcare Environments: Metrics and Procedures”. . . Deke Smith , buildingSMART alliance, Introduction.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Leigh Lally , Virginia Tech. . Labs 21 National Conference 2012 – “High Performance Healthcare Environments: Metrics and Procedures”. . . Deke Smith , buildingSMART alliance, Introduction.

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