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COBIE – BIM – Life-cycle Facility Managment

Building Information Management

This Guide provides best-practice guidelines for these requirements. These products cover the entire facility life-cycle from planning, design, construction, commissioning to operations, maintenance, and space management. This Guide can be considered the “commentary” that accompanies the COBie format specification.

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BIM Strategy and Change Management II

Building Information Management

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technologies. Standards and Guidelines : Common glossary of terms, metrics, and benchmarks that enable efficient, accurate communication on an “apples to applies” basis. IPD, Job Order Contracting/JOC).

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When is BIM not BIM?

Building Information Management

Since the “accepted” definition of BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology , it’s easy to see that BIM is part process and part technology, with the goal of developing and using current, accurate, shared information to optimize proactive decision-making.

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The Value of Lean Construction

Job Order Contracting

Descriptions of workflows, processes, procedures, standards, templates, forms, locally researched unit price books, forms and checklists used over the project life cycle… all play a role in contributing to best value outcomes. Similarly, established workflows must be maintained and supported. Edwards Deming.

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Enabling real-time collaboration in Egyptian construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The data analysis and the metadata we get from Autodesk Construction Cloud is giving us many insights we can use to manage future projects and prepare estimates for them.” We made sure every design and construction stakeholder was producing clear data in line with the guidelines, with all data being easily accessible to each team.

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Construction Collaboration Requires Common Terms

Job Order Contracting

best practice; documented process or product developed by the user community, consisting of suppliers and end users working together for the purpose of establishing industry guidelines. life-cycle cost: total costs (in present-value terms) expected to be spent on an asset during its operational existence, inclusive of demolition/recycling.

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COBIE Guide Released for Public Comment – July 2012

Building Information Management

These products cover the entire facility life-cycle from planning, design, construction, commissioning all the way to operations, maintenance, and space management. This guide provides best-practice guidelines for these requirements.