Structuring Competition for Networks of Buildings

This article appeared in Buildings Magazine on Octoboer 1, 2018. Governments with networks of public buildings have unique opportunities to structure competition around building systems to produce both dramatic savings in life cycle cost and improvements in level of service. Examples of this include a school system, with multiple elementary, middle and high schools, is

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The President Wants to Bring Outcomes to Infrastructure

By:  Dr. John Brown Miller The Trump administration’s Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure in America will add the measurement of outcomes against infrastructure plans to federal grant policy.  That is a revolutionary change for the better.  The program includes $200 billion in new, direct federal spending over a ten-year period, designed to attract $1.3 trillion in

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Pavlov’s Infrastructure Dogs

Pavlov’s Dogs and Federal Infrastructure Dollars By:  Dr. John Brown Miller Miller was professor of civil engineering at MIT, chair of the ABA Section of Public Contract Law, and is an expert on infrastructure procurement.  Miller is on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnBrownMiller In a famous behavior psychology study, Ivan Pavlov’s dogs showed that human behavior

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