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Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Process

Author : Standing Committee on Organizational Performance and Metrics

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 88 pages

File Size : 47,66 MB

Release : 2000-02-03

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0309172241

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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.



Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Process

Author : Standing Committee on Organizational Performance and Metrics

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 89 pages

File Size : 25,41 MB

Release : 2000-03-03

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0309068940

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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.





Sustainable Federal Facilities

Author : Federal Facilities Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 145 pages

File Size : 20,68 MB

Release : 2001-03-30

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0309171040

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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.



Outsourcing Management Functions for the Acquisition of Federal Facilities

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 149 pages

File Size : 26,3 MB

Release : 2001-01-20

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0309072670

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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.



Starting Smart

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 94 pages

File Size : 21,84 MB

Release : 2004-01-05

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0309166683

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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.





United Nations

Author : United States. General Accounting Office

Publisher :

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 45,61 MB

Release : 2001

Category : New York (N.Y.)

ISBN :

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Green Schools

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 21,35 MB

Release : 2007-01-25

Category : Science

ISBN : 0309180317

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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.



Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering

Author : Khaled Elleithy

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 582 pages

File Size : 17,16 MB

Release : 2010-03-10

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9048136601

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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).