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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. During this step/phase, the final drawings, selection of your construction team, a confirmed maximum budget, and confirmed schedule are finalized to be construction ready.

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Coloring Rooms with Rules & Scheduling Project Info - Do Revit

Do

My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. Coloring Rooms with Rules & Scheduling Project Info. I needed a schedule to contain project information, in this case with a list of areas. This time though, I created a new schedule and it wasnt there! Revit Zone. dont think: Do Revit.

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5 ways mass timber will reshape the design of life sciences facilities

BD+C

While it’s true that the prefabricated product may come at a premium, the mass timber system’s decreased complexity of construction presents cost savings in construction schedule reduction. Organized around a 55-foot+ core-to-perimeter dimension, an intermediate column delineates between potential benching and lab support zones.

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Boston’s Plan to “Be Blue”

PSMJ Resources

Photo courtesy of Inhabitat.com Last year at a forum hosted by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, futurist Edie Weiner predicted that green-to-blue spaces (spaces that give back more than they take) would gain traction in the years ahead. Here in Boston, home of PSMJ’s headquarters, it’s looks as though she’s right.

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BIMocrisy: forgive me; I have no patience to tolerate it at this level any more.

DebunkTheBIM

How on earth can an architectural company claim any type of BIM-enablement when they can’t get their 2D areas right? Any old architectural firm could be asked to prepare a quick study of possible future space-uses in a highly complex job for one of the world’s most prestigious clients and to get it wrong. Let’s not name names.

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Revit Beginners: Apply View Template to Schedules

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. Apply View Template to Schedules. but you can now create a view template from schedule views. I revisited my first post and realized that just because Revits schedules defaulted to Arial font back then, doesnt mean I have to live with it now. Labels: Schedules.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Chris Walker, VDC Project Manager at PENTA Building Group

Autodesk Construction Cloud

People with successful careers possess many admirable qualities, but one common denominator that these folks have is their willingness to push themselves out of their comfort zone. Even as a kid, I was interested in architecture and design. That has empowered me to learn more, get out of my comfort zone, and grow professionally.