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Beyond Green – High Performance Buildings, BIM, and Life-cycle Facility Management

Building Information Management

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! There should be little to no cost premium for a sustainable building. Why not? BIMF - A Framework for BIM.

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Top Sustainable Construction Materials to Build a Better Future 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

One of the things that often comes up when discussing the future of construction is sustainability. This is, after all, the only planet we can live in (that we know of), so promoting sustainability will serve us — and future generations. This post rounds up some notable examples of sustainable construction materials.

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” Evidence-based ” Life-cycle Federal Facility Management, BIM, and the Status Quo – NIBS, FFC

Building Information Management

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. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Expected Life-cycle and Deterioration Rates for Physical Assets.

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Enabling real-time collaboration in Egyptian construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Not only that, but the fact that there are no conflicts between different versions being worked on by different teams also saves huge amounts of time, stress and rework, says Ahmed Nafea, Building Information Modelling (BIM) manager in Polar Management, the project management arm of Redcon.

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LEED, Sustainability, and the Federal Government – Report Card – 2012

Building Information Management

Green, yellow or red values were assigned for seven (7) metrics, with no overall score.Oddly the Department of Energy scored to “reds” for poor reductions in fleet petroleum use and poor progress in developing sustainable buildings. The EPA and GSA score all greens… which is curious at best.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

These factors include… poor formal and professional education in the domain, low investment in research and development, deep rooted project culture, perceived long life-cycle of associated return on investment, resistance from construction projects’ participants and stakeholders, and lack of real property owner leadership and competency.

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Metrics for BIM – Total Cost of Ownership and Facility Life-cycle Management

Building Information Management

Total Cost (inclusive of construction, design, project management, etc.)/square Annualized TCO per building/Non-assignable square feet = Cost rate per non-assignable square. feet per building. ?? Annualized TCO per building/Building Interior square feet = Cost rate per interior square foot per. building. ??