Civil + Structural Engineer
APRIL 14, 2023
The new quality-control tool for road construction will enable crews to verify pavement quality as they build asphalt roads rather than waiting until after construction and using core samples to determine density of asphalt.
Building Information Management
JUNE 27, 2016
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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Stok
AUGUST 28, 2019
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.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 19, 2016
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.
Job Order Contracting
APRIL 15, 2018
JOC Programs are competitively procured, performance-based, and supports long-term owner-contractor relationships. JOC’s history begins with the US Army in Europe in the 1980’s. Components of the OpenJOC UPB Estimate – Determine quantities of work • Build the estimate from UPB • Summarize the estimate and apply coefficient.
UK Construction Blog
MAY 25, 2023
The Secretary of State grants Development authorisation Orders (DCOs) for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), combining planning authority with additional consents such listed building authorisation. DCO rulings were mostly on time or early from 2012 to 2016, resulting in a 509-day total delay at the end of 2016.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
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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