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Improving Public Sector Facilities Life-cycle Management – Hard Questions MUST be asked and ANSWERED!

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Improving public sector facilities life-cycle management is critical to the economy, the environment, and to our safety. contact-form] The post Improving Public Sector Facilities Life-cycle Management – Hard Questions MUST be asked and ANSWERED! appeared first on 4BT.

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Building Life-cycle Costs and Physical Asset Total Cost of Ownership Management (TCO)

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Creating and monitoring building life-cycle costs is a key component of physical asset total cost of ownership management. Initial design, procurement, and construction costs of a facility account for only 10%-20% of total capital expenditures throughout its useful life. Life-Cycle Cost Calculation.

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Facilities Total Cost of Ownership

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TCO is a nontrivial and non-static process that requires the collaboration of internal and external teams within a robust framework as well as real property owner leadership, capacity, commitment, and accountability. At the core of TCO is actionable information.

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Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management

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Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management and improving AECOO outcomes for all participants and stakeholders. Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management enables the efficient use of available funds targeted for executing renovation, repair, maintenance, and minor new construction projects.

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Sustainable Facilities Management and Leadership

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This is not only a fact, but a significant barrier to efficient life-cycle management of the built environment. Committed, competent, and accountable real property owner leadership is a fundamental requirement for enabling the change that must occur throughout the AECOO community.

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Facilities Management and Entropy

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Certifications, traditional formal education, and professional training related to facilities life-cycle management and AECOO practices and practices have done little to address “Understanding and dealing with the concept of value.” It’s well beyond time to stop running with the pack. Where has that gotten us?

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Improving the PROCURMENT MODEL for Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance and Construction

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Real property owners, architects, engineers, builders, and other stakeholders have long realized the construction industry and the life-cycle management of built environment have proven wasteful. Lack of accountability and poor training of public sector procurement professionals. #3. The procurement model is broken.