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Revit Beginners: Revit's Drafting Machine

Revit Beginners

Revits Drafting Machine. For those of you who remember using drafting machines mounted to a drafting table youll find a similar tool in Revit. Now any lines or walls that you draft will snap to the gridlines of your workplane. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Design Reform. Find Consultants.

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Moving from Design-Build, DB, to Integrated Project Delivery, IPD

Building Information Management

Providing the opportunity for the kind of collaboration that the construction industry so badly needs… Design-Build has a spectrum, ranging from almost as dysfunctional … all the way to almost as collaborative as Integrated Project Delivery. Shifting Design-Build toward IPD. Owners, this is bad for you.

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PSMJ Resources Blog: 8 tips for Better Strategic Planning in 2012

PSMJ Resources

Be certain that your facilitator knows the design industry, and that you provide an abundance of advanced data about your firm, its markets, its clients, and all previous strategic planning efforts. Title the plan “DRAFT.” Don’t hire a consultant who will learn the A/E business at your expense. AECBytes.com.

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Specifications for design-build projects

Construction Specifier

Specifications originally intended for design bid-build (DBB) projects require significant revisions to be suitable for design-build or integrated project delivery (IPD). Greater challenges arise when adapting DBB source documents for design-build. Design-build contractual relationships. Images courtesy HDR.

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Revit Beginners: Imported Images and Sheets

Revit Beginners

The only solution is to place images in a drafting view (or legend view) first. Rescaling the image can also be easier from a drafting view once scale is established. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Design Reform. Marathon Drafting. USG Design Studio. Design Reform Videos.

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Revit Beginners: When is a Family Parametric?

Revit Beginners

On top of which, your client might change the design of the component dozens of times. It doesnt have to flex, it just has to illustrate your design intent. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Design Reform. Marathon Drafting. USG Design Studio. Design Reform Videos. Find Consultants.

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Now is the Time to Revise your Green Building Contracts

Green Building Law Update

It is beyond dispute that the best way to mitigate risk in a sustainable project is a properly drafted contract. And while this law firm makes a business of drafting and revising contact documents, there are very good contracts available in the marketplace. It is now the time to revise your contracts for sustainable projects.

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