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The Tradeline BLOG is an online exchange of quick bits of breaking information, intelligent “briefs”, promising technologies, emerging trends, HOT concepts “overheard” at Tradeline conferences, and some rare, practical stats that will help you keep tuned to the capital projects and facility management profession.
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When is the right time?
Consider re-commissioning your buildings every 5-10 years to make sure they are running the way they were designed to operate and find energy cost reduction opportunities. For energy cost reduction over a large real estate portfolio, the pursuit of small ...
| | 4.27.07
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Finding the "fit" for your organization.
There is one right alternative workplace design solution that is unique to your institution – the trick is to find that special solution. There is a tangible cost to your institution if you don’t find that right solution. Alternative workplace...
| | 4.25.07
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Capital spend avoidance is led by data credibility.
To streamline you data reporting, take stock of which of your published reports are really being used. Here is the test: Do people believe them? Do people rely on them? Do people act on them? If any of your reports fail the test, stop publishing them and ...
| | 4.23.07
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Partnership relationsips are crucial.
Very lean staffing solutions are achieved by forging partnership relationships with key service vendors. In moving from a technical service organization to a vendor management organization, your focus will shift to vendor management skill sets, managing o...
| | 4.22.07
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How to present Total Cost of Ownership to senior executives.
To get buy-in from stakeholders on TCO thinking, engage them in dialog on three issues: 1) portfolio utilization, 2) business forecasts, and 3) life-cycle costs. People think that the problem in presenting TCO numbers (as opposed to smaller first-cost cap...
| | 4.20.07
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Understand the elements of TCO and how it affects project budget.
There are three, not two, elements of Total Cost of Ownership – 1) construction and demolition, 2) maintenance and operations, and 3) recapitalization of major systems. Capital spend avoidance is the high yield action to reduce total cost of ownersh...
| | 4.18.07
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Risk aversion and project success.
You cannot lower the cost of facility ownership by simply reducing the budget. Avoid that trap. By all measures, design and construction as it is done in the U.S. is a very inefficient business process. To make it significantly more efficient, the fu...
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