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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules

BD+C

Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules 1 kcichowicz Mon, 04/22/2024 - 10:47 Designers can plan secure entry vestibules with security-rated glazing to enhance the effectiveness of their safer school designs. What are secure entry vestibules and how do they support safer school design?

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Safety AND Security: The Importance of Component Compatibility

BD+C

Safety AND Security: The Importance of Component Compatibility 1 kcichowicz Thu, 05/25/2023 - 09:31 With proposed and passed laws, it’s important lawmakers and building professionals acknowledge the interplay between fire safety and building security. How can model code changes help ensure safer school design?

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How BIM Helps General Contractors Win More Business

Construction Business Owner

Technology is making vast improvements in the way general contractors (GCs) plan and build projects, paving the way for a reimagined future. One technology in particular—building information modeling (BIM)—is leading the way. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a 3D model is worth 1,000 pictures.

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Using Locking Hardware to Support Code-Compliant Safer School Design

BD+C

All these pieces need to work together properly to enhance school safety and security. As such, safer school design brings together building, construction and security communities. In addition, current model codes require locked rooms be accessible from the outside with a valid key or credentials to support first responders.

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Need to Fine Tune Your BIM Strategy? Start with a BIM Execution Plan

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Answer: Building Information Modelling, also known as BIM. have adopted BIM, and over 30% of small firms use it for some modeling and documentation." Of course, the success of your initiatives is only as good as your implementation, which is why it's vital to craft a solid BIM execution plan (BEP). What is a BIM execution plan?

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Construction Classification Criticality – A Draft White Paper

Job Order Contracting

The combination of information related to all aspects of physical assets life-cycle is best called a physical asset model. Physical asset models should NOT be confused with 3-dimensional (3D) visualization, which is merely one of several methods of representing and working with information.

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Process centric data models are needed for BIM and ….

Building Information Management

Linkage for multiple “competencies” and/or “knowledge domains” associate with strategic and capital planning, design, procurement, construction, project management, repair, maintenance, sustainability, operations, and deconstruction/re-use. Planning, design, procurement, construction, repair, maintenance, operations.