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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

Sharing actionable, transparent information with all construction project participants and stakeholders early on, and throughout the construction and operations life-cycle of a built structure, would measurably mitigate change orders, legal disputes, and waste. and maintenance information into the building knowledge base.

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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. Correspondence: abdullateef.olanrewaju@ymail.com. INTRODUCTION.

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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. Requirements for facility life-cycle management, efficient repair/maintenance/sustainability, BIM. Budget call process.

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Higher Education and Managing Repair and Renovations Efficiently

Job Order Contracting

Further, information must be presented with the appropriate level of detail and in the proper manner for the intended audience. First and foremost, current, objective, and actionable information is needed. Information must be obtained from independent resources as well as internal knowledge in order to assure credibility.

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Climate Change Adaptation for Built Infrastructure

Building Information Management

Attend a presentation titled Climate Change Adaptation for Built Infrastructure. For those that will not attend in person, you can view the presentation via WebEx; please register on-line at the following website : [link].

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1,500th Envision Sustainability Professional Credentialed

Green Building Law Update

The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure announced that earlier this week it reached the milestone of 1,500 Envision Sustainability Professionals who have been credentialed in the use of the Envision sustainable infrastructure rating system. Bertera, Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure.

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Brownfield Laws can Save Green Building and the Planet

Green Building Law Update

Moreover, there is another very real and present reason that brownfield laws should be accessed. Given the large stock of existing buildings in North America (and the relevantly modest number of new commercial buildings constructed each year), such might not only save a green building program, but also preserve our way of life on this planet.

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