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Improving Facilities Sustainment Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

Improving facilities sustainment outcomes is critical to meeting mission, environment, and financial requirements. What is facilities sustainment? Sustainment includes all maintenance and repair activities necessary to keep an inventory of facilities in good working order. Learn more?

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Cost effective FSRM Facilities Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization

Job Order Contracting

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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LEED, Sustainability, and the Federal Government – Report Card – 2012

Building Information Management

Green, yellow or red values were assigned for seven (7) metrics, with no overall score.Oddly the Department of Energy scored to “reds” for poor reductions in fleet petroleum use and poor progress in developing sustainable buildings. Further the GSA has yet to get control of its inventory and related efficient use of space.

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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

Job Order Contracting

For example, the GSA doesn’t require the use of locally researched unit price detailed line item construction cost data , or the standardized used of LEAN construction delivery methods such as Job Order Contracting for all repair, renovation, and minor new construction. We found that the $3.8 GSA has identified $4.6

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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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