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Align hits key milestone on HS2 Colne Valley viaduct

Construction Enquirer

HS2’s main works contractor Align JV has completed the first set of V-shaped bridge piers for what will be the UK’s longest railway bridge The V-piers are designed to support the viaduct deck over a series of lakes the Colne Valley Viaduct crosses between the end of the London tunnels and the start of the Chiltern tunnels.

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

Typical construction project stake holders include: Owners (management, engineering, contracting/procurement, building users), Contractors, Subcontractors, and Designers/Architects. The current CSI MasterFormat 2004 edition comes closest to covering all the scope of work found in the construction of building facilities and site work.

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New Sites: designbymany and Revit Forum.org

Revit OpEd

First Item: David Fano of Case Design, Inc and the website/blog " designreform " has started up a new site called designbymany which is now open to a public beta. Here's a bit about their mission from their site: snip Welcome to the public Beta of DesignByMany!! DesignByMany is a challenge based design technology community.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

2004; Black et al., Partnering process model for public-sector fasttrack design-build projects in Korea. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al., 2000; Grajek et al., 2000; Gransberg et al., Bayliss, R.,

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Revit OpEd: Building Design Suite Installation Readme

Revit OpEd

Building Design Suite Installation Readme. If you are preparing for installing the 2013 Revit products via the Building Design Suites then you might want to start with the System Requirements PDF documents for each version. Site Information. Search This Blog and Others Listed on this site. ► 2004. (2).

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Unnatural Building in Europe

Natural Building

The Cube Houses in Rotterdam were designed by architect Piet Blom, and are based on the concept of “living in an urban roof.” This unusual design theoretically optimizes the available space inside the houses. The “ Crooked House ,” located in Poland, was built in 2004. Smulders/Wikimedia Commons.

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SEO and PPC Best Practices Webcast

Construction Marketing

The site links to the award-winning Construction Marketing Blog with marketing news, resources and related content, and the association’s Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and LinkedIn pages. Prior to Google, Jo led branding and information design projects for Fortune 500 companies during her tenure at Duarte Design.

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