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Why the majority of CMMS System Implemenations Fail
The majority (60-80%) of CMMS implementations fail for the same reason that the majority of ERP systems and IWMS systems fail… the lack of due consideration of robust, lead, processes and...
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BIM ( Building Information Modeling ), Cloud-computing, Changement...
Cloud-computing will have a much more significant impact upon how the built environment is managed than 3D visualization. Information drives cost savings and higher efficiency. How and when we...
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BIM vs Information Silos
BIM is not about software or technology but about CULTURE CHANGE and CHANGE MANAGEMENT. BIM is about simplifying and adding visibility to the life-cycle management of the built environment. You are...
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BIM Evolution
In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. – Charles Darwin BIM, the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by...
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Cloud Computing, Construction, Engineering, Architecture and Productivity
Cloud computing is a more than catalyst for change, it is a DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY. Cloud computing will drive significantly enhanced productivity within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and...
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NIBS – Building Innovation 2013 Conference
I am writing this from Washington, D.C. while participating in the NIBS Building Innovation 2013 Conference. The buildingSMART alliance conference is part of this gathering under the title...
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Sustainability of DOD Buildings – Reuse of Existing Buildings
Reusing existing buildings achieves a 15%+ higher return on investment and 20% reduction in greenhouse gases. It is less costly and more sustainable to reuse existing buildings. With 345,000...
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Facility Life-cycle Costs and BIM
Understanding facility life-cycle costs is a core component of any BIM strategy for Owners, AE’s, Contractors, Subs, Business Product Manufacturers, Oversight Groups, Building Users, … or any...
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Facility Management Executives Lax in Helping to Define BIM?
Facility management executives need to play a role in defining BIM. Having personally reached out to several leading FM professional organizations I am amazed at how little interest and/or awareness...
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Moving from Design-Build, DB, to Integrated Project Delivery, IPD
Providing the opportunity for the kind of collaboration that the construction industry so badly needs…. Design-Build has a spectrum, ranging from almost as dysfunctional …. all the way to almost as...
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Federal Real Property
Part 102-74—Facility Management §102-74.10 – Executive agencies must manage, operate and maintain Government-owned and leased buildings in a manner that provides for quality space and services...
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IFC, Cobie & Why the Autodesk / Trimble Interoperability Agreement Won’t Matter
IFC, Cobie, Masterformat, Uniformat, Omniclass are standard data architectures critical to efficient construction delivery. That said, common terms, definitions , and data architectures are just one of...
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Multi-Site Facility Renovation, Repair, Maintenance, & Sustainability
Facilities operations involving multiple sites and building types/ages can be efficiently managed with the right mix of global oversight and local execution as well as consistent application of LEAN...
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Tenant / Building User Relationship Management
Tenant / Building User Relationship Management – FM Metric #1? How well facility managers support their tenants and/or building uses with respect to their respective organizational missions is a...
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