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Documenting Architecture

BD+C

So you're sitting at your desk, you’ve got your project up on the monitor and you are in the zone and crushing it, but what does that even look like? In today’s episode, we are going to talk about documenting architecture best practices in what is essentially creating the graphic instruction manual of constructing a building.

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Three Easy Steps to Building a Commercial Building

Wolgast Corporation

This preliminary phase includes a floorplan, exterior elevations (if applicable), code and zoning checks, and an initial engineering analysis. This means that Wolgast will be acquiring all the bids including all the lowest bids for every trade and comparing them for the best value for our client and the longevity of their building.

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Design and specification considerations: Stand-alone canopy structure systems

Construction Specifier

Parks and recreation areas also make abundant use of these systems for team benches, dugouts, practice zones, playgrounds, picnic shelters, comfort stations, boat launches, community pavilions, information centers, and more. Specify a finish that meets the current Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) documents: ?

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

While cities occupy just three percent of global land area, by 2050 they will be home to two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants according to Gensler’s, 75 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to Gensler’s Aleksander Sasha Zeljic in a June 2018 interview with Architectural Products magazine. for Fast Company.

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“Innovation is purposeful”: How Skanska’s Sr. Precon Technologist Drives Change

Autodesk Construction Cloud

I started out studying fine art, engineering, and architecture, then business and technology. I implemented the new tech at a small, but nimble architecture firm first, while finishing school, and then helped a large firm of 500 architects with their BIM implementation fresh out of college.

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Questions Commercial Buyers Should Ask When Shopping for a New Building

Wolgast Corporation

Are there any As Built drawings or Architectural Plans? Does the current zoning of the space/building permit your intended business use? Additionally, if you plan to sell your building and have any of these documents/answers, keep them to pass on to the new buyer. Your Architect can create As Built drawings for a fee.

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Bluebeam Studio: The Most Powerful, Overlooked Feature in Revu

Carol Hagen

Studio Projects lets you share project files and folders including Word documents, Excel Spreadsheets, images, PDFs, DWGs, etc. You can check out documents from Studio Project, make revisions and check them back in or in the case of PDFs, collaborate on these documents in a Studio Session.

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