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Commercial Construction Trends: Why More Clients Are Choosing the Design-Assist Model

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Working with a client on a design-assist or design-build basis, as Englewood Construction is with the reimagining of Stratford Square Mall, allows the commercial contractor to provide valuable input during the initial planning stages. Design-assist is a bit of a hybrid of the design-build process.

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More about design drawings and model planning

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and those capture all the geometric features of a site, building, product or component in an accurate and clear way so that it can display a clear information to the builder or manufacturer to help in design. But all of them have some things of investigation or development of the design or sometimes they are good for nothing.

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3 ways computational tools empower better decision-making

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Megha Sinha, Melissa Alexander, Nate Holland Higher Education Laboratories Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects BIM and Information Technology Computational tools—which harness the power of computation to streamline decision making—were once considered “nice to have.” Now they are integral to the design process.

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The Next Generation in Construction: A Spotlight on 6 Young Industry Innovators  

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Through our Make It Real program, we encourage young people to engage with their communities by applying the design thinking process to real problems related to construction and the built environment. What inspired you to enter the design challenge? . What inspired me to get involved in the design challenge was the challenge itself.

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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On the surface, the idea seems like an attractive plug-and-play solution for all involved. Is conversion from office to multifamily really a good idea? It is only possible if owners and bankers give up on their old model, and their old valuation.” Or is this silver bullet really a poison pill? In his article, Grabar proposed, “.It

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7 ways to change 'business as usual': The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

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It measures what was achieved after the design is fully baked. The new way starts with setting ambitious targets before there is a design, using those high ambitions as design-informing questions and design-guiding criteria. TRPL has a total water balance design that will be net positive. Just as T.R.’s

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The waterfall is flawed

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The ‘waterfall model’ in project management is a term that describes a sequential design process and it is routinely used to represent the way buildings are created. Actually, not the concept itself but the idea being blankly forced onto the AEC industry. Designing a waterproof window may work well within a ‘waterfall approach’.