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LEAN Construction Project Delivery enables efficient life-cycle management of the built environment

Job Order Contracting

LEAN Construction Project Delivery enables efficient life-cycle management of the built environment via a robust integration of process, actionable standardized and common information, supporting technology, and ongoing training. An example of LEAN Construction Project Delivery is OpenJOC ™ Job Order Contracting.

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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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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

Professor Janis Birkeland is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne who has taught sustainable planning and architecture at several universities. Previously, she worked as a planner, architect, and lawyer in San Francisco to gain insights into the impediments to sustainability.

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Some outstanding ideas to design your home with Concrete

Construction Cost Estimating

In recent times, concrete home construction is gaining popularity because of the factors like sustainability, green building, disaster resistance, energy conservation, and safety. To satisfy these requirements efficiently, the engineers offer some unique design ideas. Advantages of Concrete Homes: 1.

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Zero Waste in an Era of Net Zero Everything

Green Building Law Update

Their ideas never scaled and much of their work was transferred to the Green Building Certification Inc., That said, focusing on waste alone is a very much last millennium idea involving only one late stage of life cycle analysis at a time when doing less harm is not good enough for most companies.

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Lessons learned from 70 years of building cities

BD+C

Taking stock, the following ideas illustrate ideas on the future and how we live and come together. Currently under construction, 10 World Trade embodies this idea. Rendering courtesy Sasaki Architecture is a building block and a testing ground for larger urban ideas. This is our mission: Better Design, Together.

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Digital Builder Ep 59: Future-Proofing Workflows with BIM and Digital Twins

Autodesk Construction Cloud

On this episode We discuss: How innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) and prefab are helping firms tackle the labor shortage and build more sustainably. Promoting sustainability In addition to helping construction teams, Amr says that technologies like AI can also promote sustainable business practices. "We

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