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GHG, SHG, SEC Regulations – Facilities Regs and Reporting Changes Coming Soon

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How a company assesses and plans for climate-related risks may have a significant impact on its future financial performance and investors’ return on their investment in the company. Buffer zones. The journey towards efficient life-cycle management of the built environment, carbon literacy, and LEAN process is not easy.

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Building Life-cycle Costs and Physical Asset Total Cost of Ownership Management (TCO)

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Creating and monitoring building life-cycle costs is a key component of physical asset total cost of ownership management. Initial design, procurement, and construction costs of a facility account for only 10%-20% of total capital expenditures throughout its useful life. Life-Cycle Cost Calculation. Demolition.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

Each county (including Baltimore City) must prepare a recycling plan that addresses how the jurisdiction will achieve its mandatory recycling rate. Senate Bill 370 (passed) requires that each county recycling plan address the collection and recycling of recyclable materials from specified large office buildings by October 1, 2020.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Types of risks in construction

Construction Cost Estimating

Risk in construction is fully integrated with every facets of construction life cycle. Inappropriate construction program planning. Lack of knowledge in planning construction programs. Incompatible construction program planning. Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Tuesday, June 21, 2011.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

HVACie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed to describe Heating, Cooling, Ventillating (and Refrigeration) systems. Ontology for Life-Cycle Modeling of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems. 2012-03-01-CERL-CR-12-2-ModelView. March 2012.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

HVACie is an information exchange specification for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed to describe Heating, Cooling, Ventillating (and Refrigeration) systems. Ontology for Life-Cycle Modeling of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems. 2012-03-01-CERL-CR-12-2-ModelView. March 2012.

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Some exclusive journals containing useful information on construction

Construction Cost Estimating

Life cycle management: An integrated approach to managing investments. Basie) Verster, South Africa “Real Time Integrated Cost Planning and Control – Mitigation and Resolution of Claims” (2006 – Ljubljana, Slovenia). Journal of Cost Management (Summer): 35-48. Albright, T. Blog Archive. ► 2012. (18).