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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 phase, clients will also get a construction cost estimate that is sufficient for presenting to an owner’s financial institution for securing a construction loan.

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“Innovation is purposeful”: How Skanska’s Sr. Precon Technologist Drives Change

Autodesk Construction Cloud

When solutions are simple to use, it takes less motivation to get people to step out of their comfort zone and try new things. In general, people have a hard time visualizing a mental picture of 2D construction documents. You have digital 2D documents that can be marked up virtually.

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Bluebeam Studio: The Most Powerful, Overlooked Feature in Revu

Carol Hagen

Studio Projects lets you share project files and folders including Word documents, Excel Spreadsheets, images, PDFs, DWGs, etc. You can check out documents from Studio Project, make revisions and check them back in or in the case of PDFs, collaborate on these documents in a Studio Session. Markup Alerts was added in Revu 12.5

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Optimize Building Performance in Real Time: Intro to Monitoring Based Commissioning

Stok

MBCx is a clear, comprehensive, data-based approach to verify that building systems operate according to the design documentation. Improve occupant comfort by optimizing zone conditioning, managing carbon dioxide demand control ventilation, using smart start sequencing, or learning occupant behavior. How does MBCx differ from Cx?

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. It also creates a new building zone called the ‘mid-doors,’ a term coined recently by Transsolar’s Erik Olsen, in his series “What is Indoors?”

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Current and Future Use of BIM – 2013 – UK

Building Information Management

A designer’s primary interest is for example the spatial structure, a structural engineer’s primary interest is the load bearing structure, while an energy engineer is interested in climate zones. The first documented use of the term BIM can be dated back to 1992 (van Nederveen & Tolman).

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Evaluating Natural Disaster Risk In Site Selection

Business Facilities

Factors are often evaluated in a geographic information systems (GIS) screening to visually map data sets to help identify Areas of Interest. Earthquake ground shaking hazard is documented by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by dividing land area into seismic (ground acceleration) zones based on historical events.

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