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Call for Abstracts
For full details, please see the revised Call for Abstracts (reflects extended submission deadline). An abstract template is provided for download and completion.
You are invited to submit a paper for this conference fitting the following
themes:
- Sustainable construction for the future
- Sustainable materials
- Off-site manufacturing
- The role of government in energy efficiency and sustainability
in buildings
- Eco-efficiency and life cycle management evaluation tools
- Industry development
- Engaging with SMEs
- Training initiatives
- Innovation and technology diffusion
- Leadership, project management and sustainable teams
- Procurement and risk management
- Risk and reward - mutually beneficial partnerships for all stakeholders
- Benchmarking and productivity
- Sustainable procurement - clients' material and design selection
driving resource use
- The effect of innovation on regulations and codes
- Facilities management
- Strategic asset management
- Innovative practices
- Performance management
- Enhancing facility management feedback in design (using 3D and
4D CAD models)
- Information and communication technologies
improving efficiencies
- 3D/4D modelling and virtual prototyping
- Visualisation packages to 'test before invest'
- Interoperability and electronic data exchange
- Life-long information and digital standards and protocols
- Meeting client needs
- Who is the client? Understanding and meeting client needs
- Quality of documentation
- Practical applications of R&D
- Client/designer/contractor interaction
- Occupational health and safety
- Regulation of OH&S
- Building responsible OH&S standards into a project
- Current trends in OH&S
- The client's role in driving best practice
- Performance based building
- Performance approaches to facilities management in design and
construction
- Performance-based procurement
- Performance assessment and decision support tools and methods
- Performance-based management of built facilities
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