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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

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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Vetrotech Saint-Gobain first fire-rated glass ceramic fabricator to assess products' environmental footprint

BD+C

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. The life cycle assessment is the most rigorous and complete method for assessing the environmental footprint of a product or service, in a fully transparent way.

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BIM Guide for Owners – Building Information Management, Model, Modeling

Building Information Management

BIM is a term which represents three separate but linked functions: Building Information Management: Is the ORGANIZATION & CONTROL of the business process by utilizing the information in the digital prototype to effect the sharing of information over the entire lifecycle of an asset. Building Information Management, Model and Modeling.

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Construction Disruption – BIM, Cloud Computing, and Efficient Project Delivery Methods

Building Information Management

This is especially important to any organization dependent upon its facilities and infrastructure to support and maintain its core mission. A disruptive technology is one that alters the very fabric of a business process or way of life, displacing whatever previously stood in its place.

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Built Environment Life-Management, BIM, LEAN, and Efficient Project Delivery

Building Information Management

Life-cycle Management 101. BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. As such it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle from inception onwards.

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TFM Article – BIM, Cloud Computing, IPD and JOC

Building Information Management

This is especially important to any organization dependent upon its facilities and infrastructure to support and maintain its core mission. A disruptive technology is one that alters the very fabric of a business process or way of life, displacing whatever previously stood in its place.

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Building smarter healthcare through better healthcare interior design

The Korte Company

Furnishings with color-accented fabric matching the color codes assigned to the facility’s separate departments. And in healthcare, the way an organization is perceived is just as important as how well it delivers care. We brought elements of the land indoors to make the space feel like it belonged.

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