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| Specialists work in isolation, focusing on their separate area of project expertise and interacting and working together only when absolutely needed. |
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| a set of rules that specify the min. acceptable level of safety for constructed objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Building Codes protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the construction and occupancy of buildings and structures. Building codes are applied by contractors and architects and enforced by the issuing authority, such as city inspectors. |
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| Purchase price of a hard asset such as land, building, inventory, equipment or machine, as opposed to accounting, banking, financing or legal cost. |
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| A collaborative, facilitated approach to project design and execution. The approach invests in design activities that increase the opportunity for integrated solutions with an eye to better performance and life cycle savings. |
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| Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) |
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| A project delivery approach that integrates people, systems, business structures and practices into a process that collaboratively harnesses the talent and insights of all participants to optimize project results, increase value to the owner, reduce waste, and maximize efficiency through all phases of design, fabrication and construction. |
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| All members of the project team working towards the integrated design, including building owners, maintenance staff, planners, designers, etc. |
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| International Code Council (ICC) |
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| A membership association dedicated to building safety and fire prevention, develops the codes used to construct residential and commercial buildings including homes and schools. |
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| Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) |
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| The investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of the given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence. |
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| evaluates a product's economic performance. This differs from life cycle assessment which evaluates a products environmental impact. |
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| An expense item that is not considered direct construction cost. Soft costs include architectural, engineering, financing, legal fees, and other pre- and post- construction expenses. |
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| Expanding the traditional reporting framework to take into account ecological and social performance in addition to financial performance. Economics, Environment, Social Responsibility |
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| Views all the building's systems together as they operate interdependently. It's integrated design and uses an integrated team to facilitate sustainable design for the future. |
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| An organized methodology that identifies and selects the lowest lifecycle cost options in design, materials and processes that achieves the desired level of performance, reliability and customer satisfaction. |
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| Method of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries. Zoning may be use-based (regulating the uses to which land my be put), or it may regulate building height, lot coverage, and similar characteristics, so some combination of these. |
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