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Productive Construction – Traits of Collaboration

Job Order Contracting

Integrated Project Delivery: A Normative Model For Value Creation In Complex Military Medical Projects. The Effects of Building Information Modeling on Construction Site Productivity. Modeling and Benchmarking Performance for the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) System. Barrett, R. Brennan, M. Brewer, W., & Mendelson, M.

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Green Building Code Proposed in Washington DC is a National Model

Green Building Law Update

The new Green Code is significant, not only for those constructing or renovating buildings within DC, but because it portends a new green regulatory scheme that may well be a national model. The Green Construction Code as currently proposed is available at this link.

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Do Not Drive: Ford 2006 Ranger Pickups

Construction Equipment

Following January's alert to 2,900 owners of model-year 2006 Ford Ranger pickup trucks to stop driving their vehicles immediately, Ford has released a new statement advising an additional 33,428 2006 Ford Rangers have been added to the Do Not Drive list.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Conceptual model of partnering and alliancing. Development of a practical model of partnering for construction. Application of ANP in process models: An example of strategic. Strategic alliances: a model for establishing long. R., & Hiscocks, E. Coventry Framework Partnership. Proceedings of the. Anvuur, A.

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Definition of BIM – Building Information Modeling – Defintions from Various Sources

Building Information Management

‘Building Information Modelling (BIM) is digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility creating a shared knowledge resource for information about it forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle, from earliest conception to demolition.” ” – RICS.

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A Robust Framework for Improving Construction Productivity

Job Order Contracting

Integrated Project Delivery: A Normative Model For Value Creation In Complex Military Medical Projects. The Effects of Building Information Modeling on Construction Site Productivity. Modeling and Benchmarking Performance for the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) System. Barrett, R. Brennan, M. Brewer, W., & Mendelson, M.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Development of a conceptual model of construction partnering. Lean Construction: arenas of enactment, models of diffusion and the meaning of ‘leanness’. Sutter Health: Developing a contracting model to support lean project delivery Lean Construction Journal 2(1), 105-112. Design-Build Contracting Claims: Cumulative Supplement.