Understanding the Difference Between Design-Assist & Delegated Design
Construction Business Owner
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Understanding the Difference Between Design-Assist & Delegated Design. Elizabeth Manning. Tue, 11/17/2020 - 15:47.
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Construction Equation: Knowledge Problems + Data Problems + Management Problems = Outcome Problems
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 25, 2021
Lack of recognition by senior management of the linkage between between the built environment and organizational mission Low level of understanding of both life-cycle total-cost-of-ownership management and integrated lean planning, procurement, and project delivery principles and processes. Procedia Engineering. Data Problems.
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Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment comes down to analyzing large data sets— big data—from several knowledge domains. Organizations that can best harness “Big data” in within the AECOO sector (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner) will hold a distinct competitive advantage.
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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. Poor leadership across the public sector with respect to facilities/built environment asset life-cycle management.
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Circular Construction and Its Benefits
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The application of strategies such as integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery, and a regenerative model for materials reuse, design for disassembly, prefabrication, and recycling for reducing resource consumption and waste. What is circular procurement?
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Integrated Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery Solution
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The ultimate benefit provided by integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery solution is significantly improved life-cycle total cost of ownership asset management. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 26(1), 104–. Management in Engineering, 35(1), 05018014. Team Selection.
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Adopting a Program versus a Project Approach Improves Facilities Management and Construction Outcomes.
Job Order Contracting
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Volumes have been written about the fragmentation of the AECOO (architecture, engineering, construction, operator, owner) and Facilities Management sectors and their relative high levels of economic and environmental waste. Aligning strategies and objectives with processes and workflows.
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New ISO standard for optimizing building use and reusing and recycling components released
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A new ISO standard has the goal of optimizing building use to realize a structure’s full potential throughout its life cycle. ISO 20887, Sustainability in buildings and civil engineering works , pertains to design for disassembly and adaptability.
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BIM in Chains – Sustainability and Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment Stalled?
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BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Further life-cycle management of the built environment requires significant “change management” in most organizations whether Owners, AEs, Contractors, Oversight Groups, etc.
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Best Value Facilities Repair, Renovation Work Order Delivery
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Collaborative design for constructibility. All parties can visualize project and work order requirements at a granular level and drive efficient life-cycle management. An integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery solution that drives consistent on-time, on-budget, quality outcomes at a fair price.
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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements
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Sharing actionable, transparent information with all construction project participants and stakeholders early on, and throughout the construction and operations life-cycle of a built structure, would measurably mitigate change orders, legal disputes, and waste. and maintenance information into the building knowledge base.
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Building Information Modeling is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. In the manufacturing world, PLM, product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire life-cycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal.
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How Construction Companies can Leverage Social Media
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Construction Classification Criticality – A Draft White Paper
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– Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Facilities Management, & Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment. The combination of information related to all aspects of physical assets life-cycle is best called a physical asset model.
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” Evidence-based ” Life-cycle Federal Facility Management, BIM, and the Status Quo – NIBS, FFC
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Key Topics / Take Aways: Identify and advance technologies, processes, and management practices that improve the performance of federal facilities over their entire life-cycle, from planning to disposal. Requirements for facility life-cycle management, efficient repair/maintenance/sustainability, BIM.
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LEAN Job Order Contracting
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As with any integrated project delivery environment, LEAN JOC supports and drives early and ongoing communication among all parties… owners, facilities management, architects, engineers, builders, and building users. Asset Life-cycle Total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) Management www.4BT.us. TOOLS AND SERVICES.
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Close the data gap from AEC to operations The critical step for closing the AEC and operations data gap : involve facility managers in design and build data management processes as early as possible. While the formative stages of new projects bring together design and construction teams, facility managers often have more limited representation.
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Efficient Construction Delivery – Life-cycle management of the build envrionment
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Certainly it has been don within certain areas such as cost estimating using common / well designed cost databases with integrated contract, project, and document management. However across the full life-cycle of a structure? Traditional linear construction delivery methods such as design-bid-build are antiquated.
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APRIL 8, 2014
Ontology is now a rapidly evolving science in response to increasing complex information systems and/or “big data” Specific to the built-environment life-cycle management BLM / BIM, ontology is a fundamental requirement as it’s needed to establish robust, coherent, and consistent representations of ever-changing information.
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Facilities Lifecycle Management
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See asset life-cycle model… A total cost of ownership perspective is also required as opposed to the more prevalent practice of first-cost dominance. Facilities Lifecycle Management requires increased competency on the part of facilities owners and facilities management.
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Often owners focuses only on initial purchase cost when they make decisions on repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build planning, design, procurement & construction. In the facilities management, architecture, engineering, construction sector, it is a way of life. Solving the Construction Procurement Puzzle.
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Scope validation phase is longer and more intense than traditional design bid build, or other “so-called” JOC programs. Subcontractor and other vendor insights are integrated into design and used for coordination and conflict. Asset Total Cost of Ownership-Efficient Life-cycle Management Model. resolution.
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Open collaboration between real property project owners and service providers (architects, engineers, builders…) throughout the life-cycle of assets, programs, and projects is a fundamental outcome of using the OpenJOC(TM) Collaborative Construction Delivery Platform. . . Arizona continues to struggle?
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Our education and professional development systems are failing to properly address the fundamental concepts of life-cycle and total-cost-of-ownership management specific to the built environment.
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Big data, LEAN Construction Delivery, High Performance Buildings = Productive Life-cycle Facility Managment
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APRIL 12, 2016
Our education and professional development systems are failing to properly address the fundamental concepts of life-cycle and total-cost-of-ownership management specific to the built environment.
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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group
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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group Design veterans Steven Burke and Michael Swenson will lead the new sustainability initiative for Suffolk. Contractors Sustainability Sustainable Design and Construction Suffolk Construction, headquartered in Boston, has established the Suffolk Sustainability Group.
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LEAN JOC – Job Order Contracting
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The approach invests more resources earlier in the Project life-cycle. As with any integrated project delivery environment, LEAN JOC supports and drives early and ongoing communication among all parties… owners, facilities management, architects, engineers, builders, and building users. TOOLS AND SERVICES.
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Collaborative Construction Contracts Drive BIM, not Technology
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BIM ( Building Information Modeling ), Cloud-computing, Changement Management, and Architecture, Engineering, and Construction – III
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OCTOBER 16, 2012
BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment support by digital technology. Poor life-cycle management knowledge transfer. IPD, JOC), and. Additionally real-time, multi-point collaborative access is securely enabled by cloud computing. In short, cloud computing eliminates the need for data silos.
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BIM for FM – What is COBie – A Section of Roadmap for Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
It arose from the collaboration of the US Department of State, US Army Corps of Engineers, NASA, and the Veterans Association. It is designed to be easily managed by organisations of any size and at any level of IT capability, allowing each of them to contribute efficiently to a single representation of the asset. The use of.
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Job Order Contracting
MARCH 14, 2017
Traditional design-bid-build, and even design-build are not capable of meeting this threshold, not providing appropriate levels of collaboration and financial transparency. The Designer”. Integrated project delivery method. A C ommon D ata E nvironment (CDE) is a strategic tool for sharing cost information and managing a team.
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Efficient Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Construction Basics
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
As a result, staggering levels of economic and environmental waster are common across the architectural, engineering, construction, operations, and owner groups. LEAN methods provide a proven integrated, coordinated, and efficient way to manage all project and program phases (from design through construction, into operation, and beyond).
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OCTOBER 26, 2017
Reduce costs and improve efficiency for buildings and infrastructure projects by consolidating and seamlessly exchanging information throughout the design, procure, build, and operations life-cycle. Improved Collaboration Translates to Great Efficiency.
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AUGUST 24, 2018
Articulate the benefits of LEAN facilities repair, renovation, and construction across the entire life-cycle. Integrate internal and external teams (procurement, engineering, facilities management, designers, builders, building users…). Focus upon BEST VALUE OUTCOMES.
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Building Information Management
AUGUST 29, 2012
BIM is the life-cycle modeling and management of the built environment supported by digital technology. First, a few clarifications and items to help frame this discussion: BIM definition: “BIM is the life-cycle modeling and management of the built environment supported by digital technology.” INTRODUCTION.
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Construction Cost Estimating 2020 and Beyond – Must Reading for Owners
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
The are many levels of construction cost estimates based upon a “project” life-cycle. Conceptual or preliminary estimates are developed prior to any design or engineering analysis other than basic requirements definition and or physical and/or functional condition assessment.
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Validity of a Construction Cost Estimate – Public Sector
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MAY 4, 2023
In preparing a cost estimate, a value analysis must be performed concurrently to establish the appropriate selection, means, and methods of each tasks to ensure the lowest possible life-cycle cost per the approved detailed scope of work. Estimate includes all initial preliminary engineering costs and final design costs.
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1,500th Envision Sustainability Professional Credentialed
Green Building Law Update
JANUARY 28, 2014
Envision is a collaborative effort of the American Public Works Association, the American Council of Engineering Companies, and the American Society of Civil Engineers, who formed an organization called the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure.
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BIM and Cloud Computing – Get Beyond 3D Visualization and Focus Upon the “I”
Building Information Management
JANUARY 17, 2012
Both technologies also embed associated business process rules and components which will enable enhanced life-cycle management of the built environment, alignment of structures with organizational mission, and better consideration of general community impacts. Definition of BIM. .
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