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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. How can we better leverage standardized information to improve outcomes? What changes are necessary for improvements in repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build policy and practices are required?

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Efficient Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment – An Elusive Goal in the Public Sector

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Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment in the public sector has remained an elusive goal. The process is well defined and requires a process focused environment and associated robust information management and decision-support capabilities. .” Henry ford. The barrier is a simple one.

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LEAN, BIM, and Measurably Improving Facilities Life-Cycle Management

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BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the efficient management of the life-cycle of the built environment supported by digital technology. The most significant benefit is total-cost-of-ownership management throughout the life-cycle of a physical asset.

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Construction Equation: Knowledge Problems + Data Problems + Management Problems = Outcome Problems

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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. Building Research & Information.

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Facilities Total Cost of Ownership

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At the core of TCO is actionable information. Alignment between built environment buildings, systems, and components with the organizational mission is clearly needed to manage associate lifecycle aspects and ensure built environment availability from a functional perspective.

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LEAN Construction Project Delivery enables efficient life-cycle management of the built environment

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LEAN Construction Project Delivery enables efficient life-cycle management of the built environment via a robust integration of process, actionable standardized and common information, supporting technology, and ongoing training. An example of LEAN Construction Project Delivery is OpenJOC ™ Job Order Contracting.

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Public Sector Facilities Stewardship and Data-driven Decision Making

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The fundamental reason the assumptions most public sector professionals have are incorrect when it comes to life-cycle management of the built environment. Assumptions drive what information is collected, how it is collected, how information is analyzed, and what conclusions result, and subsequent actions taken.