This month’s Facility File is based on an existing K-12 school building that is receiving a new, energy-efficient kitchen hood exhaust system along with a new gas-fired makeup air unit. The Facility ...

Complex construction projects have many moving parts and numerous stakeholders. Each project often contains its own unique challenges and obstacles. Finding the right solution does not often come by ...

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a method to take a project from design through construction. The key element of this, as opposed to some other types of project delivery, is you bring together all ...

This month’s B2B will focus on a new 12-classroom building addition, each room with its own closed loop ground source heat pump (GSHP) unit. The building will have 12 GSHP for classrooms, 2 GSHP for ...

"The risk, as far as losing money, is minimal," says Edwin Najarian, a structural engineer principal with TTG Corp. TTG's profit on IPD jobs has been "the same or a little less" than usual, he adds.

In order to better understand the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Model, let’s take a metaphorical trip to a doctor’s office. Imagine we are having a wound treated, a wound that was caused by ...

With a construction program that added 25% of the design post-award, that had a need for extensive site remediation and that faced a run of major rainstorms and other challenges, the 465,000-sq-ft ...

Three-dimensional information, such as that provided by building information modeling, allows all members of the Building Team to visualize the many components of a project and how they work together.

In contrast to the days when the choice of project delivery systems was between using a fixed price or unit price form of contract, today’s construction industry has a plethora of alternative project ...

Results were recently released from the first phase of a comprehensive study to explore the impact of project delivery methods and procurement procedures on achieving sustainable design and ...

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