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9 Tips for Starting an Architecture Firm

Levelset

These tips are well-tested and designed to get your architecture company off to a successful start. Although it may feel like you are taking a step on a tightrope with no safety net below, the fear will remain until you act. Make sure that you have a realistic expectation of how much design work you’ll be able to do.

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Construction quality management: Everything you need to know

Lets Build

It involves taking a quality-focused, hands-on approach to all stages and aspects of design, construction, and client relations. If it’s a new situation, it may be necessary to devise workarounds to issues as diverse as legal risks, worker training, or cash flow concerns. What is construction quality management?

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Data Analytics Trends in Construction

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Construction sites these days have no shortage of data: design and BIM data from the planning stages of a project, jobsite data collected by wearables, mobile devices and sensors on equipment/materials, accounting and job progress data from the office, project management data and much more. Reducing Risk and Increasing Safety.

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Building Strong Starts: Protecting Profit Margins Through Effective Preconstruction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

When you stay on top of project planning and design from the beginning (i.e., Integrate design with downstream processes A typical $100 million project takes around 30 months in design and preconstruction. One way to avoid these challenges is to implement integrated design. How do you accomplish this?

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Championing Regulatory Compliance with the Right Construction Management Software

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The purpose being to uphold a specific quality and safety level, where non-compliant firms may find themselves impacted in ways which transcend fines alone, including, but not limited to, the exclusion from submitting expressions of interest and tendering for or being awarded Commonwealth-funded building work during the period of exclusion.

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Grenfell reform may extend to procurement

Construction Law

The legislation imposed adjudication regime has at least succeeded in freeing up some industry cash flow. Health and safety seems to have improved significantly, largely driven by legislation. The Dame Judith Hackitt review of fire safety legislation in May 2018 outlined changes that would have to be introduced by legislation.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Construction Safety. At Foundation Software, we try to avoid inmate takeovers by first assigning a lead analyst to oversee design for each project. We then provide a design methodology to follow. Design considerations are not relevant at this stage. Well-designed software provides a more powerful solution.