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

Building Information Management

The Need for Credible Construction Cost Estimates. Education, key performance indicators, common terms and definitions, LEAN collaborative construction delivery methods and supporting technology can to be leveraged to enable significant productivity and quality improvement. Basic Characteristics of Credible Cost Estimates.

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Standards for Building Economics

Building Information Management

on Building Economics. E833-14 Standard Terminology of Building Economics. E917-15 Standard Practice for Measuring Life-Cycle Costs of Buildings and Building Systems. E964-15 Standard Practice for Measuring Benefit-to-Cost and Savings-to-Investment Ratios for Buildings and Building Systems.

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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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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Robust collaborative construction delivery methods provide a proven path for Owners to significantly improve construction productivity and levels of satisfaction among a participants and building users. – 2016, Arizona State University – Job Order Contracting Performance Survey-2015. JOC Do’s and Don’ts.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

Stok

Due to their embodied carbon and operational carbon footprints, buildings play a significant role in these efforts, so understanding the impact of legislation on buildings is critical. This directly translates to building energy codes. And, the result of this baseline? How to approach compliance.

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Why Efficient Facility Management Is So Difficult

Building Information Management

While both IPD and JOC provide established and clear benefits versus design-bid-build – DBB, design-build – DB, and other construction delivery methods, their consistent usage and application has been relatively limited. Risk/reward is shared an additional work and resources are allocated based upon performance.

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Job Order Contracting – Lean Construction History

Job Order Contracting

Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) construction delivery was too inefficient for the large numbers of renovation, repair, and sustainment/maintenance projects. The 2015 survey noted that 95% of Real Property Owners were satisfied with Job Order Contracting and 85% clearly indicated its benefits versus other methods. Lessons Learned.