Job Order Contracting

MAY 18, 2022

The above provides a foundation to allow a real property owner and their design-builders to efficiently manage their ongoing repair, renovation, sustainability, maintenance, and new build projects. The post Integrated LEAN Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery for Owners and Design-Builders appeared first on 4BT.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 18, 2024

7 design lessons for future-proofing academic medical centers 0 qpurcell Fri, 10/18/2024 - 08:32 Healthcare Facilities HOK’s Paul Strohm and Scott Rawlings and Indiana University Health’s Jim Mladucky share strategies for planning and designing academic medical centers that remain impactful for generations to come. What is the budget?

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Combining a single source of truth with a robust and integrated Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery Framework can reduced costs by 30%-40% as well as reduce risk for design builders. Why 4BTs Data Structure Excels Eliminates Guesswork: Removes reliance on error prone location and economic adjustment factors.

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Construction Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2022

They’re structurally sound and designed to withstand harsh weather conditions. Planning and designing are the most challenging stages when building a shipping container home. To help you on your goal, here’s a comprehensive guide to creating an efficient floor plan and design using shipping containers: 1. Do you love cooking?

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Construction Specifier

JANUARY 13, 2025

Owners and design teams are not protected by todays inadequate and vague polished concrete specifications. Contractors and design teams will continue to pay out contingencies without understanding what went wrong and how to protect themselves in the future.

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The Constructor

JUNE 18, 2023

Green roofs and living walls are two of the latest sustainable design and architecture trends. These two concepts have revolutionized how we think about urban environments, providing a more holistic and ecological approach to making cities more livable and sustainable.

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BD+C

MAY 6, 2024

The benefits of biophilic design in the built environment 0 qpurcell Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:30 Biophilic Design Biophilic design in the built environment supports the health and wellbeing of individuals, as they spend most of their time indoors. In Los Angeles, our 13,482-sf office is LEED and Fitwel certified.

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Construction Specifier

JANUARY 13, 2025

Tran/courtesy Holcim Designed by Handel Architects in collaboration with Steven Winters & Associates, SOCOTEC, and WSP to incorporate Passive House design in its office portion, Winthrop Center in Boston is the worlds largest Passive House-certified office building. By Jamie Gentoso, P.E. Photos by Joseph D.

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Construction Marketing

JUNE 13, 2022

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a certification that aids in improving building performance and reduces the impact on the environment. It provides guidelines to create an efficient and sustainable built environment that encourages market competitiveness and public health improvement. Sustainable Sites.

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PC Construction

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Hosted by the Portland Museum of Art, this event stimulated forward-thinking ideas and dialogue to blend creativity in design and construction to optimize the use of CLT, Glulam and other mass timber products within design and our day-to-day lives. The post Mass Timber Maine appeared first on PC Construction.

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BD+C

MARCH 20, 2023

3 ways prefabrication doubles as a sustainability strategy 0 qpurcell Mon, 03/20/2023 - 11:09 Modular Building Corie Baker, AIA, shares three modular Gresham Smith projects that found sustainability benefits from the use of prefabrication. Utilizing Prefabrication as a Sustainability Strategy 1.

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Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Recently, the focus on sustainable living has increased. Sustainable living refers to incorporating environmentally friendly policies. Construction and building are significant areas where we need to introduce sustainable practices. Sustainable practices, such as energy-efficient windows, also save money in the long run.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 28, 2023

Cost effective facilities FSRM, Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization can now be accomplished with the integration of robust process and planning, procurement, and project delivery teams within a common data environment (CDE) inclusive of current, local market, granular line item construction task data. Sustainment.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 22, 2024

TRANSPARENCY-COLLABORATION-ROBUST PROCESS Imagine that the the person who owns the facility and the one designing, engineering, repair, renovating, maintaing, or building it had the same information. By adopting a programmatic approach, we can address these issues and ensure that every project is completed efficiently and sustainably.

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Construction Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In the world of commercial building design, the choice of materials plays a crucial role in shaping both the aesthetics and efficiency of the final structure. From the exterior cladding to the interior finishes, the materials used can have a significant impact on the overall functionality, sustainability, and visual appeal of the building.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 17, 2024

Improving Construction Services Procurement is critical to sustainable facilities management. Effective construction services procurement capability is critical to sustainable facilities lifecycle management. 4BT’s tools and services are specifically designed to provide a lower cost, higher performing Job Order Contracting Solution.

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Job Order Contracting

JUNE 9, 2023

Cost savings of 30%-40% are possible local market requirements are known and shared by owners, design-builders, and others in a collaborative manner with a focus upon mutually beneficial best value outcomes. Commit to and support a collaborative work environment among internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams.

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Construction Marketing

MARCH 19, 2025

Vehicle emissions, industrial pollutants, and airborne particles settle on surfaces, creating a layer of grime that dulls even the most striking architectural designs. Over time, even the most well-designed buildings can start to look neglected if proper maintenance isnt in place.

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Pro Builder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Sustainable Building by the Numbers. Sustainable building is using energy-efficient and healthier materials and the intelligent integration of design, construction, and operation of each home so it delivers benefits like healthier living, less maintenance, and durability not just for the next 15 years, but for decades to come. .

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 29, 2024

With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. For the Make It Resilient 2024 contest , any extreme environment such as a desert, rainforest, deep ocean site, areas prone to flooding, or even another planet can be chosen.

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Construction Specifier

JUNE 17, 2024

At the same time, the built environment must adapt to the impacts of an already-changing climate by optimizing the resiliency of structural systems. Model building codes (I-codes) developed by the International Code Council ( ICC ) play a crucial role in constructing safe, sustainable, and resilient structures.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 19, 2023

The 4BT OpenJOC(TM) Solution and 4BT OpenBUILD(TM) Solution enables owners and design-builders to work collaboratively towards well-defined mutually beneficial outcomes. Systems Enablers for Sustainable Facilities Management, Repair, Renovation, and Maintenance are critical considerations for any real property portfolio owner.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 28, 2024

While we are all aware of the high levels of financial and environmental waste associated with the construction and sustainment of the built environment, very little has been done to address the issue at the root cause level. . What are the sources of most project cost overruns, delays, and overall dissatisfaction with outcomes?

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 31, 2022

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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Job Order Contracting

JUNE 14, 2021

A robust process, that embeds a LEAN programmatic approach for all projects, can assure the consistent delivery of quality, on-time, and on-budget repair, renovation, sustainability, maintenance, and new build requirements. The Value of Process, Shared Purpose, and a Common Information Environment. Get a Price. . Kibert, C.

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

Sustainable, Award-winning Design gives New Life to Parkland Hospital 1 kcichowicz Mon, 06/05/2023 - 10:14 Voice of the Brand Built in 1954, the Dallas Parkland Hospital had become severely overcrowded and outdated. This remarkable design incorporates over 4.5 This remarkable design incorporates over 4.5

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BD+C

JUNE 10, 2024

5 hidden benefits of mass timber design 0 qpurcell Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:05 Mass Timber Mass timber is a materials and design approach that holds immense potential to transform the future of the commercial building industry, as well as our environment. This can be done multiple ways: gluing, nailing, or doweling.

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Job Order Contracting

APRIL 13, 2023

Also, they fail to bring together the right people, owners, and design-builders, together in a collaborative environment. 4bt.us – Innovative Job Order Contracting Solutions to support owners and design-builders. contact-form] The post Job Order Contract Core Requirements Drive Efficiency appeared first on 4BT.

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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. Data Problems. Procedia Engineering. Kirkham, R.

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the administrative burden required for sustainable facilities management must be reduced as staffing levels continue to fall. Value generation in public sector facilities management is now a mandate as elevated levels of waste are no longer sustainable.

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Construction Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Due to the quick adoption of new tools and technologies, keeping competitive and being successful in the current environment of the construction industry are now closely related to implementing technological innovations. The construction industry is undergoing a remarkable transformation as it embraces the digital age.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sustainability is a hot topic in construction design these days. The industry consensus is that installing eco-friendly systems is a benefit to the environment and the budget.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

2024 promises to be a transformative year for public companies when it comes to reporting on strides made toward greater environmental sustainability.[ 1 ] In preparation for this new era, large publicly held entities and smaller companies alike have ramped up measurement and reporting around environment, safety, and governance.

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Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Innovative construction capital delivery for public sector owners can consistently enable quality, on-time, on-budget and fully compliant repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new build outcomes. 85% of all construction projects are over-budget, late, and/or poorly completed.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 30, 2022

The push for sustainable construction. Last year, in a huge step toward sustainable construction, Infrastructure Australia, the nation’s independent infrastructure advisor, announced a set of governance, economic, social and environmental criteria—which it terms a quadruple bottom line—that will inform future investment recommendations.

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The Korte Company

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Korte Company was awarded a Design-Build project by the Highland C.U.S.D. #5 The 8,753-square-foot renovation project is the first Design-Build school project for The Korte Company in Illinois and comes on the heels of the passage of Public Act 103-491 (aka the Municipal Design-Build Authorization Act).

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Job Order Contracting

JUNE 27, 2024

Focus on a developing a detailed Scope of Work from day one and work collaboratively with all constituencies (owners, design-builders, planners, procurement, facilities management…). The ability to enable sustainable repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction relies upon current verifiable, objective, and granular cost data.

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