Adding Value To The Facility Acquisition Process

Author : Standing Committee on Organizational Performance and Metrics
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309068940
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Process written by Standing Committee on Organizational Performance and Metrics and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-03 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government, like private corporations and other organizations, acquires buildings and other facilities to support specific functions and missions and the general conduct of its business. The federal government is, in fact, the nation's largest owner of buildings and spends more than $20 billion per year for facility design and construction. Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Processidentifies a range of best practices and technologies that can be used by federal agencies and other owners to provide adequate management and oversight of design reviews throughout the facility acquisition process.

Author : Standing Committee on Organizational Performance and Metrics
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309172241
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Process written by Standing Committee on Organizational Performance and Metrics and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government, like private corporations and other organizations, acquires buildings and other facilities to support specific functions and missions and the general conduct of its business. The federal government is, in fact, the nation's largest owner of buildings and spends more than $20 billion per year for facility design and construction. Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Processidentifies a range of best practices and technologies that can be used by federal agencies and other owners to provide adequate management and oversight of design reviews throughout the facility acquisition process.

Author : Federal Facilities Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309171040
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Federal Facilities written by Federal Facilities Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1990s, several of the sponsor agencies of the Federal Facilities Council began developing and implementing initiatives and policies related to sustainable development. Guidance related to life-cycle costing and value engineering was recognized as being supportive of sustainable development, in particular when used in the conceptual planning and design phases of acquisition, where decisions are made that substantially effect the ultimate performance of a building over its life cycle. However, specific concerns were raised that when federal agencies apply value engineering in the final stages of design or during construction in response to cost overruns, design features that support sustainable development may be eliminated. The primary objective of this study, therefore, was to develop a framework to show how federal agencies can use value engineering and life-cycle costing to support sustainable development for federal facilities and meet the objectives of Executive Order 13123.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309072670
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing Management Functions for the Acquisition of Federal Facilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-01-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study outsourcing is defined as the organizational practice of contracting for services from an external entity while retaining control over assets and oversight of the services being outsourced. In the 1980s, a number of factors led to a renewed interest in outsourcing. For private sector organizations, outsourcing was identified as a strategic component of business process reengineering-an effort to streamline an organization and increase its profitability. In the public sector, growing concern about the federal budget deficit, the continuing long-term fiscal crisis of some large cities, and other factors accelerated the use of privatization measures (including outsourcing for services) as a means of increasing the efficiency of government.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142897122X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Facilities Council's report on the role of facility design reviews in facilities construction written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309166683
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starting Smart written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most federal facilities projects are successfully completed (i.e., they reasonably meet the agency's requirements and expectations), the perception is that development of the scope of work for design for these projects is challenging and in some cases poorly performed. Based on this perception, a study was commissioned by the Federal Facilities Council (FFC) of the National Research Council to identify the elements that should be included in a scope of work for design to help ensure that the resulting facility is one that supports the fulfillment of a federal agency's program or mission. Its objectives also included identifying key practices for developing effective scopes of work for design involving new construction or major renovation projects and identifying key practices for matching the scope of work with the acquisition strategy, given a range of project delivery systems and contract methods.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428943730
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United Nations early renovation planning reasonable, but additional management controls and oversight will be needed. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309180317
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Green Schools written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence has accumulated that shows that the quality of indoor environments can affect the health and productivity of adults and children. One consequence is that a movement has emerged to promote the design of schools that have fewer adverse environmental effects. To examine the potential of such design for improving education, several private organizations asked the NRC to review and assess the health and productivity benefits of green schools. This report provides an analysis of the complexity of making such a determination; and an assessment of the potential human health and performance benefits of improvements in the building envelope, indoor air quality, lighting, and acoustical quality. The report also presents an assessment of the overall building condition and student achievement, and offers an analysis of and recommendations for planning and maintaining green schools including research considerations.

Author : Khaled Elleithy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048136601
Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering written by Khaled Elleithy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Systems Engineering and Sciences. Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering includes selected papers form the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS 2008) which was part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences and Engineering (CISSE 2008).