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Entries for May 2015

Building Management Systems BMS (also known as Building Automation Systems BAS),  long valued for  delivering  the “smarts” for  “intelligent buildings,” have grown significantly in importance in recent years, largely for their ability to deliver competitive advantage.  In many cases the share of systems technologies for new construction p...

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Building Management Systems, Building Automation Solutions
As technology advances and buildings get smarter, more equipment and the systems that support them have to fit into the increasingly finite spaces available for sensors and control systems, sprinklers and HVAC, conduit and lighting fixtures, fire-alarm and data network cabling—to name a few. Hence the value of preconstruction planning, three dimensional (3-D) modeling and especially of pr...

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It might sound like a redundancy stating the obvious, but constructability has become a core value in today’s construction industry.  But what does this really mean?  As a project management approach, constructability brings the processes of building a structure fully into the building’s design.  What it involves is to create a complete map of the construction process...

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