With the U.S. Green Building Council's June 27 conversion to LEED version 3.0, contractors are trying to get up to speed with new certification requirements. What stayed the same? What changed? How will the new requirements affect current and prospective work? As the answers start to emerge, another logical link is also emerging. LEED certification and Building Information Modeling go hand in hand. How so? John Jurewicz has the answer in this month's BIM feature.
This month's issue also includes Doug Findley's take on working with Primavera's P6 thresholds, Larry True's instructions on how to interpret direct and indirect project costs for accounting purposes, and Gordon Aronson's reasons for why he says people, not processes, destroy project success. His answers might make you rethink the way you do business.
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Following in the footsteps of the General Services Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard and the Smithsonian Institute, Wisconsin has become the first state to institute a systematic adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices for state-funded construction projects.
