Building Information Management

APRIL 12, 2016

Our education and professional development systems are failing to properly address the fundamental concepts of life-cycle and total-cost-of-ownership management specific to the built environment.

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Life Cycle Management Products Education 40

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Understanding facility life-cycle costs is a core component of any BIM strategy for Owners, AE’s, Contractors, Subs, Business Product Manufacturers, Oversight Groups, Building Users, … or any stakeholder. Operations (utilization, utilities, security, safety, sustainability, waste, cleaning, grounds management ).

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Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Understanding facility life-cycle costs is a core component of any BIM strategy for Owners, AE’s, Contractors, Subs, Business Product Manufacturers, Oversight Groups, Building Users, … or any stakeholder. Operations (utilization, utilities, security, safety, sustainability, waste, cleaning, grounds management ).

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Life Cycle BIM Renovating Foundation 40

Building Information Management

AUGUST 6, 2012

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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Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Sustainability attributes of concrete. Sustainable construction considers the entire life cycle of a structure and aims to reduce the environmental damage at every stage, from the initial choice of products to demolition. This can reduce the carbon emissions of structural systems by up to 40 percent.².

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Sustainability Concrete Environment Life Cycle 52

Building Information Management

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What are Facility/Infrastructure Life Cycle Costs? What is life-cycle management? Is BIM the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology? What are the benefits of life-cycle cost management vs. a “first-cost” focus? Answers to the above: 1.

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Life Cycle Environment BIM Management 40

Building Information Management

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What are Facility/Infrastructure Life Cycle Costs? What is life-cycle management? Is BIM the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology? What are the benefits of life-cycle cost management vs. a “first-cost” focus? Answers to the above: 1.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Environment BIM Management 40

Lets Build

JUNE 2, 2017

Global warming is one of the main reasons why sustainable housing is ideal for future construction. Sustainable homes do not only help the environment by reducing the overall environmental impact during and after construction, but it contributes towards many social and economic benefits. Construction Material.

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Sustainability Housing Green Materials 159

GCP Applied Technologies

JANUARY 31, 2019

Admixtures and sustainability. Cement additives and concrete admixtures are construction chemicals that reliably improve the sustainability of a broad range of cement-based systems. Application of these powerful water reducing chemistries has enabled production of concrete with favorable rheological properties. Phillip.fry@gc….

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Sustainability Concrete Life Cycle Products 60

Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When specifying flooring, one should consider both sustainability and performance. Both are affected by the material science that goes into the product: How are they constructed? Where do the materials come from that make these products? Even sustainably made floors must be installed correctly. It is such a waste.

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Sustainability Certification Green Products 52

Building Radar

MAY 12, 2020

The need and importance of sustainability in construction has become a debated topic due to growing concerns over climate change and the finite nature of resources. A sustainable build should take these factors into account along with the biodiversity of the land. Not only that, the sector is also a major producer of waste.

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Sustainability Construction Life Cycle Green 52

Building Information Management

MARCH 19, 2013

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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Life Cycle Management BIM Engineering 53

Construction Marketing

JUNE 13, 2022

It provides guidelines to create an efficient and sustainable built environment that encourages market competitiveness and public health improvement. Sustainable Sites. This is done by tracking Material by Design (MBD) credits that include a requirement to use product categories identified in the LEED Product Category Library.

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Natural Building

MAY 20, 2022

Moreover, embodied carbon, which is carbon released over the entire life cycle of a building, including end-of-life material disposal, is responsible for 11% of total global carbon emissions. HempCrete uses hemp, a natural and sustainable resource and carbon sink, to construct a concrete-like material.

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Materials Sustainability Concrete Life Cycle 52

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the things that often comes up when discussing the future of construction is sustainability. This is, after all, the only planet we can live in (that we know of), so promoting sustainability will serve us — and future generations. This post rounds up some notable examples of sustainable construction materials.

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Sustainability Materials Concrete Construction 52

Job Order Contracting

JUNE 25, 2018

The OpenJOC Job Order Contracting Approach adheres to fundamental LEAN processes that mutually benefit all participants…owners and contractors… equally, yet does so with the lowest administrative and/or product costs. LEAN Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, & Minor New Construction Projects and Building Operations.

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Renovating Sustainability Life Cycle Construction 100

Building Information Management

APRIL 28, 2014

Technology is not the primary obstacle to efficient life-cycle management of the built environment! The roadblocks to increased collaboration, transparency, and productivity within the AECOO sector are as follows: 1. Current focus upon first-costs vs. life-cycle costs. Different meanings for the same parts.

Life Cycle 40

Life Cycle Environment BIM Management 40

Natural Building

AUGUST 3, 2020

Professor Janis Birkeland is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne who has taught sustainable planning and architecture at several universities. Previously, she worked as a planner, architect, and lawyer in San Francisco to gain insights into the impediments to sustainability.

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Sustainability Green Life Cycle Design 52

Building Information Management

JUNE 20, 2012

Key Topics / Take Aways: Identify and advance technologies, processes, and management practices that improve the performance of federal facilities over their entire life-cycle, from planning to disposal. Requirements for facility life-cycle management, efficient repair/maintenance/sustainability, BIM.

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Life Cycle BIM Management Inspections 61

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The successful integration of People, Process, Information, and Technology leads to the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects on-time and on- budget. with the result being improved overall productivity.

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Life Cycle Procurement Renovating Budgeting 115

SAB Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Local product sourcing receives a lot of attention in green building rating systems, but the geographic limit it imposes considers only the transportation impacts of material selection. Standardized life cycle assessment is essential for a true understanding of how sustainable building products and materials really are.

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Life Cycle Materials Sustainability Transportation 56

BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem It's going to take the efforts of government and the private sector to mitigate the climate-damaging problem of embodied carbon, says this building sustainability expert, Brent Trenga. The CODE Building in Charlottesville, Va.,

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Procurement Life Cycle Construction Materials 52

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 13, 2017

See asset life-cycle model… A total cost of ownership perspective is also required as opposed to the more prevalent practice of first-cost dominance. Proper allowances for local conditions – geographic, weather, productivity of labor, security, …. Metrics and Benchmarks – Time, Accuracy, Conditions, Cost….

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Management Life Cycle Estimating Comparison 100

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 20, 2020

LEAN Job Order Contracting (JOC) is a robust integrated project delivery process for repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and “minor” new construction. Asset Life-cycle Total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) Management www.4BT.us. INTRODUCTION. TOOLS AND SERVICES.

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Contract Life Cycle Environment Renovating 165

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 20, 2020

LEAN JOC (Job Order Contracting) is a robust integrated project delivery process for repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and “minor” new construction. The approach invests more resources earlier in the Project life-cycle. Asset Life-cycle Total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) Management www.4BT.us.

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Contract Life Cycle Environment Renovating 132

Building Information Management

MAY 28, 2014

Being productive is not just about being efficient. Sure, you can tweak a few things here to attempt be more efficient with respect to your numerous renovation, repair, sustainability, and construction projects, but substantial productivity gains require fundamentally changing how you do things. Learn more at [link].

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Renovating Sustainability Contract Products 51

Building Information Management

APRIL 10, 2012

The later being largely responsible for the decades long declined in productivity within the construction sector throughout America. And, of course, buildings are a major consumer of petrochemical products… high energy users, and a primary source of green house gas and other emissions.

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Life Cycle BIM Management Visualization 49

Green Building Law Update

MARCH 16, 2014

An environmental product declaration (EPD) is a method of quantifying the environmental impacts of a product. In the context of green building, EPDs will provide a way describing the environmental impact of a building material or product. EPDs articulate the conclusions of a life cycle assessment. in this arena?).

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Green Life Cycle Products Baltimore 120

Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The ability to understand and measure a building’s environmental impact is pivotal as we work to make buildings more sustainable. Embodied carbon refers to the emissions associated with manufacturing a product, while operational carbon describes the emissions of CO 2 during the operational or in-use phase of a building.

Life Cycle 52

Life Cycle Materials Products Accounting 52

Building Information Management

MAY 21, 2015

Efficient project delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery – IPD for major new construction, and Job Order Contracting – JOC for renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction, among others, are proven and have been practiced effectively for decades. Job Order Contracting / Integrated Project Delivery.

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Products Life Cycle US Construction 40

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 10, 2019

Nonetheless, it would be incorrect to assume that technology alone will solve the AECOO’s dismal legacy of low productivity, waste, and legal disputes. The key is to integrate people, process, technology, and current actionable data throughout the life-cycle of all projects. . The post appeared first on 4BT.

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Procurement Life Cycle Legal Mobility 100

Construction Specifier

MARCH 12, 2021

Sustainability and resilience. Implementing sustainability, resilience, and adaptability characteristics into buildings and structures requires above-code design considerations. Sustainability. Sustainability is the capacity for human health and well-being, economic vitality and prosperity, and environmental resource abundance.

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Design Sustainability Life Cycle Materials 52

Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

In a widely accepted definition, Zero Waste is, The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and with no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health.”. yes, this blog will continue).

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Claims Certification San Francisco Resource 156

Building Information Management

MAY 28, 2015

Technology is an enabler, but in itself incapable of truly impacting construction productivity… AND we are software developers! The key to construction productivity improvement lies within collaboration, standardized information, metrics, viable strategy, and continuous improvement… basically LEAN business process.

Products 40

Products Life Cycle Construction Environment 40

Job Order Contracting

MAY 17, 2022

“ESG- Using Environmental, Social and Governance factors to evaluate companies and countries on how far advanced they are with sustainability. Modify and refurbish instead of demolishing or adding to avoid unnecessary production and transport of building materials. (SEC 17 CFR 210, 229, 232, 239, and 249). ” ISO 14064.

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Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Interoperability is a common “buzzword” used whenever you here a discussion about improving productivity with the AECOO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owners, Operations) industry sector. Drastic culture and process are the requirements for mitigating waste within the AECOO sector.

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Renovating Life Cycle Sustainability Products 45

Construction Specifier

AUGUST 31, 2021

As interest in sustainable roofs continues to grow, ordinances are beginning to show change and other ways to further reduce buildings’ impact on the environment must also be considered. A reduction in GWP supports sustainability. In response to climate change, the Canadian government and a growing number of U.S.

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