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Toll Brothers City Living® and Daiwa House Announce Joint Venture to Develop Waterfront High-Rise Condominium Community on New Jersey’s Gold Coast

Civil + Structural Engineer

Toll Brothers is acting as managing member and development lead for the project, overseeing approvals, design, construction, and sales. Vista Pointe represents a rare opportunity to build a luxury waterfront community with outstanding amenities and unparalleled views of Manhattan.

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Cladding and fire safety – more reaction to Martlet v Mulalley

Practical Law Construction

However, in summary, following the Grenfell tragedy, the building owner (Martlet) carried out a fire safety review of its high-rise residential towers, discovering that the cladding system installed by the design and build contractor (Mulalley) between 2005 and 2008 included combustible expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation boards.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Research has readily noted the causal factors for the relative lack of adoption of Lean across the construction and facilities management sectors. An assessment of clients’ performance in having efficient building process in Uganda. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 14(2), 73–78. 1440-7027). CIB report.

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BSL conversions: A cost-efficient method to support high-containment research

BDC Network

Mike Moreland and Ross Ferries Laboratories Contractors Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Engineers Facility Managers Architects Building Owners When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States in 2020, the American research community experienced a sudden spike in funding.

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LEAN Construction Project Delivery and Facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Life-cycle Management

Job Order Contracting

An understanding of LEAN fundamentals and their application to O&M and overall Facilities Management is of great benefit to all participants and stakeholders. Shared, performance-based risk/reward. Capital planning and management. Space management. Inventory and maintenance disposition management.

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LEAN for Facilities Operation and Maintenance

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An understanding of LEAN fundamentals and their application to O&M and overall Facilities Management will benefit Planning. Shared, performance-based risk/reward. Promoting awareness and education of LEAN O&M best management practices leads to improved outcomes. Capital planning and management. Operations.

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Federal Facilities at High Risk

Building Information Management

Each year the GAO updates its “High Risk Series” This is a report on areas of critical concern at the Federal level, yet not being properly address. For the 2015 Update, “Managing Federal Real Property” is on the list. Since I began my facilities career in 1988 as a member of VFA, Inc.’s