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Meet BREEAM, America’s Newest Green Building Certification

Viewpoint Construction Technology

And now BRE is partnering with HOK, an American architecture, engineering and design firm, to launch a BREEAM standard for new construction in the United States in 2019. While new to the United States, BREEAM isn’t entirely unfamiliar to the architecture, engineering and construction community. According to the U.K.’s

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Convention and creativity: How do we know when to make — or break — the rules?

Construction Marketing Ideas

Here is a monthly viewpoint article, published in Ottawa Construction News and the GTA Construction Report. In Canada, most of us have been lucky, in the sense that the overall economy has been reasonably healthy and there’s been enough construction (and architectural, engineering and related supporting) work for profitability.

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don't think: Do Revit: AEC Media Day Wrap up and final thoughts

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My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. The comments and blog entries on this site represent the viewpoints of the author only. skip to main | skip to sidebar. dont think: Do Revit. Saturday, April 09, 2011. AEC Media Day Wrap up and final thoughts. Revit It (francois). BIM)X: A contractors BIM blog.

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Top 30 Construction Classes at Autodesk University 2021

Autodesk Construction Cloud

How to Exceed Project Profit Margins by Leveraging Data & Workflows. As such, construction managers and planners are often pressured to constantly maximize profitability. . Be sure to attend this class in order to: See how industrialized construction makes the architectural design process more efficient.

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All About Tendering | What Is Tendering | What Is a Tender in Construction | Tendering Meaning in Construction

CivilJungle

The significant elements of the tendering process in buildings are select nepotism and crime in granting projects to architecture businesses. A tender report supports a tendering process that benefits a client’s chosen capability and willing artisan depending on specific architectural marks. Tendering Meaning in Construction.

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What are Independent Government Estimates – IGEs?

Building Information Management

In the Air Force construction environment, the IGE is generally prepared by either the government’s own design engineer or estimator, or by the Architectural & Engineering firm that prepared the design. The key to development of a good cost estimate is to approach it from a prospective contractor’s viewpoint. 1.4.1.3.2.3.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Anti Global.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Some of the largest proponents of all this nonsense stand to profit the most. Anonymous said.