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BUILDING PERFORMANCE: IMPROVING THE FACILITY LIFECYCLE
Pages 111-114

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From page 111...
... To make sure everyone in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology understands what is required by recent legislative and executive actions, we recently had an ''acquisition reform stand-down day." This event, really a kind of minicharrette, should produce ideas about how to do the job better in a more business-like way. DOD owns about 400,000 buildings, incorporating 2.4 billion square feet of space.
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From page 112...
... It is hard to convince people of that fact, especially when we are all trying to deliver projects within a decreasing budget. We are trying to develop a multimedia presentation to get this message across, with Professor Volker Hartkopf of Carnegie Mellon University and the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium.
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From page 113...
... It defines the customer's needs clearly, as a charrette does, and tries to ensure that the customer's needs are achieved during planning, design, construction, turnover, and throughout the life of that building at the lowest achievable life cycle cost. Productivity of people is a vital part of that life cycle cost analysis.
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From page 114...
... It will take time to pervade the entire Department of Defense, but there is strong consensus in its favor in the Office of Acquisition and Technology. DOD is the largest construction agent in the world; the Army Corps of Engineers and the Naval Facility Engineering Command build billions of dollars worth of buildings each year.
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