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12 Step Program for Creating Credible Construction Estimates

Job Order Contracting

Monte Carlo simulation) to develop a confidence interval around the point estimate. ■

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

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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Digital Dryshack #64: The New Year: A look back, the present, and changes ahead

Cassell Construction Estimating

Our company was a one man shop, as I did all the consulting, while traveling incessantly across the country. If you’ve got a couple hours, you can throw in HVAC life cycle costs and an energy consumption model to boot. Times have changed. Add a time-lapse scheduling model.

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Bamboo Building in Myanmar

Natural Building

Richard traveled to the Green School in Bali to take part in a two-week introductory bamboo training course. He learned about the unique perennial growing characteristics of the bamboo, producing useable timber year-in, year-out over the 50 to 100-year life cycle.

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Choosing Green Building Materials

Green Home Design Architect

One way is by considering its life cycle: where its raw materials come from, how it is manufactured and what happens during the manufacturing process, and where the product ends up. After being manufactured, how far does the product travel to get to distribution centers and you, the consumer?

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

Dr.Jenny Pickerill recently traveled around the world on a Winston Churchill Trust Travelling Fellowship on a quest for information and insights on how folks in England (where she teaches at the University of Leicester) might better address needs for sustainable housing. Subscribe to Posts [ Atom ]. March 29, 2011. Joel Leitson said.

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A Home for the Ages: Sustainability, Health, and Attainability in One

Pro Builder

In 2018, Wilson recognized that buyers born between 1946 and 1967 were struggling to live up to the media stereotype of wealthy Baby Boomers living out their golden years in gated communities playing pickleball, hosting charity events, and traveling the world.