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Cost effective FSRM Facilities Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization

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Cost effective facilities FSRM, Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization can now be accomplished with the integration of robust process and planning, procurement, and project delivery teams within a common data environment (CDE) inclusive of current, local market, granular line item construction task data. Sustainment.

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ESG is an Opportunity for Commercial Landlords

Green Building Law Update

The ‘just in time’ delivery supply chain mantras of the 1980s promising lower costs through no inventory and efficient logistics seem a distant memory. It offers a positive that the supply chain contract, the lease, is in writing. And businesses large and small have come to appreciate that supply chain is key to ESG.

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Army Abandons LEED Certification

Green Building Law Update

In the past, all new construction projects were required to meet the LEED Silver or an equivalent standard and/or to comply with the five principles of High Performance Sustainable Buildings. This new code, based heavily on ASHRAE 189.1, The repercussions of this announcement will be widespread.

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Government-Owned Facilities and The Continued Lack of Stewardship

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It also relies too heavily on leasing in situations where ownership would be more cost efficient in the long run. FRPP data related to the federal government’s 480,000 structures are not reliable on a government-wide basis, due to the different approaches agencies take in defining and inventorying structures. We found that the $3.8

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Implementing an ‘asset drawdown strategy’ for site decarbonization

BD+C

Office Buildings Engineers M/E/P Systems Reconstruction & Renovation Resiliency Sustainable Design and Construction The trend toward building electrification in commercial properties with a view toward decarbonization is increasingly at the forefront of the effort to mitigate climate change.

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STATEMENT OF KEVIN KAMPSCHROER DIRECTOR OFFICE OF FEDERAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE GREEN BUILDINGS OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTWIDE POLICY U.S. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Building Information Management

Congress has set statutory goals for improvements in performance – from reducing energy and water intensity across the Federal government’s real property inventory relative pursuing net-zero energy buildings… but is any project truly being made? To this date one might argue that little has been done.

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Federal Facilities at High Risk

Building Information Management

It also relies too heavily on leasing in situations where ownership would be more cost efficient in the long run. billion which agencies reported in 2012 as cost savings from real property disposal, space management, sustainability, and innovation activities were not reliable. … We found that the $3.8 www.jocexcellence.org. .

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