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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

To meet their responsibilities as stakeholders of the built environment ( facilities and other built structures ), public sector owners need to have the ability create credible construction cost estimate for ALL repair, renovation, maintenance (FSRM), and new build projects.

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Exterior cavity fireblocking: Exceeding fire performance

Construction Specifier

and Steven Gaynor, MBA Photo courtesy Tenmat New York City recently became the first jurisdiction in the country to reject and rewrite major sections of the International Building Code’s ( IBC ’s) language around fire protection in exterior facades. For decades, buildings have relied on intumescent materials for fire control.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Performance-centric reward system. Reduced project related cost growth per change order. All the tools and support services are readily available to enable strategic collaboration and efficient delivery of any type or size of repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build activity. management. Management, 6(3), 159-168.

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Public Sector Real Property Management – Quality Construction Cost Estimating – Earned Value Management

Building Information Management

To meet their responsibilities as stakeholders of the built environment ( facilities and other built structures ), public sector owners need to have the ability to determine the number, total cost, and measure the performance of renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and construction projects.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

The concept of View Discipline appeared with Revit Structure. It was meant to make it simple to alter the appearance of our model to be more in sync with what a structural engineer wants to see. When Mechanical is assigned Revit changes the nature of what plan and reflected plan mean. They wont with Architecture.

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Revit OpEd: Revit 2013 - View Types

Revit OpEd

As Revits features have been merged into the new Building Design Suite "Revit" it became apparent that putting all the tools in one box created some curious view, view template and discipline control issues that had to be sorted out, thus being able to create view types for more views was born. Builds and Updates. at 1:58 PM.

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Revit OpEd: Apply View Template to all Views

Revit OpEd

With Revit 2013 my view templates will adjust all those details as soon as I change the template, or at least they can if I set it up that way. I'm a little concerned w/ the new 2013 view template feature as it takes away the flexibility of independently controlling the VG per view regardles of the View Template assigned to it.