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Beyond Green – High Performance Buildings, BIM, and Life-cycle Facility Management

Building Information Management

Let’s face it, LEED is a great marketing tool, but NOT the solution. “Kudos” to LEED for building awareness and addressing the need to focus upon sustainability of the built environment! Efficient ongoing life-cycle management of facilities is the key to sustainability. Why not?

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Green Globes 01-201X about to be Green Lighted

Green Building Law Update

There is an electric charge running through the green building industrial complex with the announcement last week that “Green Building Initiative Launches New Green Globes Pilot Program.” 2014, 2015 International Green Construction Code Table 702.1,

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Essential BIM Terminology

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Data and documents are shared via a common data environment. Common Data Environment (CDE). The common data environment is one location holding all the information for a specific project. Life-Cycle Assessment. The life-cycle assessment can help determine LEED credits and certification.

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” Evidence-based ” Life-cycle Federal Facility Management, BIM, and the Status Quo – NIBS, FFC

Building Information Management

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. prioritizing).

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1,500th Envision Sustainability Professional Credentialed

Green Building Law Update

Envision fills a void left by today’s green standards, green rating systems and green codes, when these criteria apply only to occupied buildings and not to infrastructure. Our next blog post will look at Greenroads, another green rating system option for voluntary, non regulatory, stewardship of the planet.

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Demand For Efficient Life-Cycle Building Management Processes – BIM, JOC, IPD – FIATECH PRESENTATION – 2012

Building Information Management

Field specific variables, such as weather, on-going operations, soils conditions, security, safety, site lay-out, environment protections and other contexts must be considered as well as the means and methods of work execution. A “FACEBOOK for Facilities Construction and Life-cycle Operations” is on the horizon.

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Coating for sustainability

Construction Specifier

When the project team decided to go green during construction, high-performance coatings might not be the first thing on their minds, but maybe they should be. Every high-performance coating system is designed to guard surfaces against corrosion and ultraviolet (UV) light degradation, ultimately extending the life cycle of a building.