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Safety AND Security: The Importance of Component Compatibility

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Safety AND Security: The Importance of Component Compatibility 1 kcichowicz Thu, 05/25/2023 - 09:31 With proposed and passed laws, it’s important lawmakers and building professionals acknowledge the interplay between fire safety and building security. How can model code changes help ensure safer school design?

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Using Locking Hardware to Support Code-Compliant Safer School Design

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Schlage Safer school design encompasses many elements of the built environment—from the property line to classroom door openings. All these pieces need to work together properly to enhance school safety and security. As such, safer school design brings together building, construction and security communities.

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Asset Life-cycle Model, Asset Information Model, and Why BIM Won’t Work

Building Information Management

At the end of there day BIM represents nothing new relative to the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment. Furthermore, there are critical life-safety and security issues associated with our crumbling and mismanaged physical infrastructure. It’s not even the most important tool.

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Construction Classification Criticality – A Draft White Paper

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. – 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.

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BIM Basics 2014 – Building Information Modeling, Models, and Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by technology. Our technology is currently serving over 85% of United States Air Force bases and rapidly growing numbers of other DOD and non-DOD (United States Army Corps of Engineers, Army, GSA, Homeland Security, VA.) RSMeans Strategic Partner.

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Process centric data models are needed for BIM and ….

Building Information Management

BIM, the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology is all about the integration of PEOPLE and PROCESSES and INFORMATION. Visualization/QTO – 2d/3d visualization, pattern search, Procurement/Project Management – IPD, JOC, Cost Estimating, Scheduling.

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Forget “BIM”, and Get on Board with BLM – Building / Built Environment Life-cycle Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. That said, BIM has been preoccupied with 3D visualization to the extent that many/most feel that Revit, Archicad, et al are all that’s needed to implement BIM. Enter… OMNICLASS, COBie, MasterFormat, UniFormat … 2.