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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Educational and training programs must focus upon asset life-cycle management and modeling. Business aspects must shift from lowest-bidder and adversarial, inefficient design-bid-build delivery models to BEST VALUE, INTEGRATED COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY. What is average time to create an owner estimate?

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Digital Builder Ep 15: Why Global Data Standards are the Future of Collaboration

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As the volume of project data continues to grow , and global collaboration in the AEC industry becomes increasingly common, it’s more important than ever that the processes we have are scalable and sustainable. . To put it another way, construction professionals need to speak the same language.

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Business Report: Illinois Leaders Form Non-Profit to Spur Job Creation

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The Illinois Business and Economic Development Corporation (ILBEDC), modeled from best practices of other successful state and local economic development organizations, will focus on sales, marketing and exceptional customer service. “We must take a new approach to growth in Illinois; the status quo is no longer acceptable,” Schultz said.

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Breaking Down Perceptions in the Construction Industry

Autodesk Construction Cloud

.” She continues, “Educators also need to work closely with the industry to support meaningful lifelong learning for existing staff in new and emerging areas, including in relation to embedding sustainable practices and developing design thinking capabilities to address, among others, issues of universal design and bias removal.”.

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Job Order Contracting – 2015

Building Information Management

With an emphasis on partnering and team work between owners and contractors, JOC provides the methodology to execute a wide variety of indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, fixed-price, multiple and simultaneous orders for renovation, rehabilitation and repair work for facilities and infrastructures. Sample JOC Process: Figure Below.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Alabama Infrastructure Grant Program: Funds are available to public entities for extension of water, sewer and road facilities to service new or expanding industries. ARB must approve hybrid truck and bus models for them to become eligible for the program. A comprehensive guide to state incentives offered throughout the U.S.

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