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The Pillars of Sustainable Facilities Management

Job Order Contracting

Do you agree that the following are pillars of sustainable facilities management? Visualize, understand, and optimize your facilities management repair, renovation, and new build requirements. Visualize, understand, and optimize your facilities management repair, renovation, and new build requirements.

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Virtual reality as a tool for sustainable design

Construction Specifier

Recent developments in virtual reality (VR) technology allow for the visualization of unbuilt information as full-scale occupiable environments, providing previously unavailable insight to designers, clients, and other stakeholders. BIM to VR for spatial visualization.

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BIM Dimensions 101: 3D, 4D, 5D,6D, 7D, 8D, & Beyond

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We don't always throw around the word "revolutionary," but building information modeling (BIM) has truly been that over the last few decades. At its core, BIM represents an all-encompassing strategy for creating and managing information about a built asset. Remember, BIM is all about creating and managing the information of buildings.

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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. This is known as the ‘decoy effect’.

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LIFE’S GOOD AWARD Winners Present Warm-Hearted Tech Solutions for a Better Future

Pro Builder

The company aimed to solicit ideas for environmental sustainability and accessibility, two key focuses of its long-term ESG initiative, the Better Life Plan 2030. developed an assistive information display device for the visually impaired composed of 2,400 braille pins – or ‘dots’ – which move up and down. ­­ .:

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Construction Sector Waste Due to Flawed Decision-Making

Job Order Contracting

Decision-making methods within LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery frameworks enable and assure full stakeholder (buyers, designers, builders, building users, FMers…) participation in early stages of the project considerations and support collaboration among previously conflicting sustainable criteria and adversarial team members.

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LEAN Facilities Management Processes

Job Order Contracting

Change how you create, share, & reuse information. Take BIM for example, or more specifically the “M” For the most part the “M for Modeling” and 3D visualization has been the sole focus and driver as opposed to the “M” for management. Change your relationships. Change your outcomes. The latter has been neglected.