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Best Value Facilities Repair, Renovation Work Order Delivery

Job Order Contracting

All parties can visualize project and work order requirements at a granular level and drive efficient life-cycle management. Needs and deliverables are fully visualized and issues address earlier in the process. Best value facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build benefits.

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Asset Life-cycle Model, Asset Information Model, and Why BIM Won’t Work

Building Information Management

At the end of there day BIM represents nothing new relative to the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment. Furthermore, there are critical life-safety and security issues associated with our crumbling and mismanaged physical infrastructure. Any government regulation should be directly solely at Owners.

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BIM, Big Data, and Efficient Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

Building Information Management

Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment comes down to analyzing large data sets— big data—from several knowledge domains. 3D visualization software products currently promoted as BIM (Building Information Modeling) are not solutions for this task. Big Data for BIM / Efficient Facility Life-cycle Management.

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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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Construction Sector Waste Due to Flawed Decision-Making

Job Order Contracting

Best value construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methods are readily available to virtually assure maximized environmental and economic returns on AEC, facilities management, and other physical infrastructure repair, renovation, or new construction projects.

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Life-cycle management of the built environment – To BIM or Not to BIM?

Building Information Management

That said, we are not acting as stakeholders of our built infrastructure. BIM, building information modeling, is defined as the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Waste is rampant in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Building Owner and Operations Sector (AECOO).

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BIM is NOT 3D Visualization – 4D, 5D ….

Building Information Management

Building Information Modeling, BIM, is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. However, life-cycle and/or ongoing facility management using BIM? Let’s face it, BIM continues to languish. No so much. This is not only sad but economically and environmentally imprudent.