Professional Development: Reinventing The Plan Room Of The FutureBuilding Information Modeling can help facility managers stay up to date. By Steve CanterPublished in the October 2011 issue of Today’s Facility Manager Today’s facility manager (fm) is challenged with extending equipment’s useful life, optimizing energy efficiency, and overseeing construction and renovation projects...

(AIA) National Convention for its use of Building Information Technology for the second year in a row. This year, RLF received Honorable Mention for the Irwin Army Community Hospital project. The firm is part of a joint venture with Leo A Daly, providing design and construction for the new $334-million, 553,000-square-foot facility to replace the existing 50-year-old community hospital in Ft....

Verisk Health (VH) is an innovative, dynamic technology company providing a comprehensive suite of analytic products and data management services to all segments of the health care industry….

The current construction climate has been deemed a cost crisis by many. Global construction challenges (rising materials costs coinciding with a sharp increase in construction demand by other countries) compounded by the building challenges specific to California (SB 1953 requirements, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development [OSHPD] review process, and an increase in commercial and...

Moderator: KP Reddy, RCMS GroupBuilding Information Modeling, or BIM, is the new behind-the-scenes company that is the current trend. It offers up a new language, or way to communicate design for engineers, architects and owners.The advantages of BIM are the ability for the non-technical owner representatives to understand the project and the effect of their decisions, said KP Reddy. BIM is the company...

Midway through construction, the OHSU project is currently tracking at a LEED Platinum point level. During the predesign stage, energy, solar, and daylight modeling were conducted, using building orientation and massing to create a baseline model of the basic building envelope and systems to meet comfort conditions for a given climate and other factors. For some project developers, energy modeling...