Construction Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A webcast entitled LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter Best Practices for Construction Markets is scheduled for Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 12 pm CST. The webcast is free to both members and non-members. Construction Marketing Association (CMA) Social Media Manager Brian Reuhl and CMA Chairman Neil M. Brown share tips and tricks, new business-friendly features and real construction market examples for these important new media platforms.

Construction 250

Construction Schedule Management 250

HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Englewood Construction is an expert in winter condition commercial construction practices. The Chicago blizzard of 2011 is a story we’ll be talking about for generations. While most businesses, including commercial construction projects, were closed on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2011, that didn’t mean the best Chicago contractors weren’t working. After all, shopping center landlords, restaurants and retailers couldn’t afford to be closed two days in a row.

Chicago 196

Chicago Commercial Retail Construction 196

Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

HOME |. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. LAW |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. FLEET |. SAFETY |. GREEN. Topics. General Management. Software & Technology. Accounting & Finance. Insurance. Construction Law. People Management. Green Building. Construction Safety. Compliance/Regulations. Sales/Marketing. Security. Equipment Management.

Construction 149

Construction Software Software Accounting 149

Constructonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Facebook, Twitter, podcasts, friends, followers, this thing, that thing, does it ever stop? Honestly, this is just getting way out of hand. There’s movies about it, talk shows, lawsuits, privacy concerns, what next? I shudder at the thought. . *Before we go any further I feel like I need to clear the air and just make clear that Mark Zuckerberg did not come anywhere close to inventing social networking and yes, he did steal the idea for Facebook from those twins at Harvard.

IDEA 151

IDEA Products Industrial Construction 151

Advertisement

The Verdantix Green Quadrant: EHS Software 2023 is an independent third-party analysis of 23 EHS software vendors (including Intelex) that provides an in-depth look at the technical capabilities, application breadth, innovation focus, and momentum of key environmental, health, and safety management software market players. The guide is essential reading for EHS software benchmarking, especially for understanding unique vendor strengths and capabilities.

Software

Carol Hagen

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Editing PDFs is a daily occurance in the construction industry. Architects, Engineers and Contractors have standardized on the PDF as the file type to share, email and collaborate on. PDF editing streamlines and helps clearly conveys changes, clarifications and improvements. Everyday PDFs are instrumental in the construction conversation to show mark ups on Microsoft Office documents, interactively draw on tablet PCs and then share these PDFs on Servers.

Industrial 142

Industrial Documentation CAD Estimating 142

SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation in Penticton is a post-secondary training facility for students entering the new generation of sustainable building trades. With a floor area of 7,000 sq.m the project is by far the largest of Canada’s current contenders for the Living Building Challenge [LBC].

Sustainability 84

Sustainability Viewpoint Materials Concrete 84

HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

KA-BOOM! We were pulling a feeder cable through a Chicago retail construction project when we heard the explosion. Then, the transformer blew out. What the heck happened? It was a case for the Englewood Construction CSI team. Step 1: We pulled out the cable to find it completely destroyed. Step 2: We rented a sewer camera and discovered a metal object stuck to the existing pipe, which scraped the cable and caused the explosion.

CSI 136

CSI Commercial Site Retail 136

Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

HOME |. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. LAW |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. FLEET |. SAFETY |. GREEN. Topics. General Management. Software & Technology. Accounting & Finance. Insurance. Construction Law. People Management. Green Building. Construction Safety. Compliance/Regulations. Sales/Marketing. Security. Equipment Management.

Construction 136

Construction Software Software Foundation 136

Constructonomics

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Mark Buckshon who writes the Construction Marketing Ideas blog and is a founder of the Design and Construction Report is running another competition this year to determine the best construction blog. Go ahead and cast your vote for whoever you think put together the most thought provoking, articulate, and entertaining construction blog (wink, wink).

Construction 122

Construction IDEA Site Design 122

Advertisement

As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

Industrial

Carol Hagen

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tucson contractors have already put my presentation to good use on “All things Information Technology (IT)” at the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) luncheon yesterday. Excel Mechanical’ s Carrie Stone emailed me her results this morning and I can only hope everyone in attendance will also share their success. Topics during my 45 minute chat included: Search, Backups, Data Storage, Cloud Computing, and construction project management.

Tucson 120

Tucson CFMA Contractors CoreCon 120

Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Green 264

Green 264

Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Another item that came from attending BIMForum Winter 2011 , Tekla BIMsight. I admit that my first reaction to hearing the name was, "Oh, a cloud sharing/viewing solution?" Then I saw the spelling of the name. Using price alone, if we compare Autodesk's Navisworks Manage and Tekla BIMsight: Navisworks Manage: $10k-ish (USD) $1.5k yearly subscription Tekla BIMsight: $0.0k (USD) aka FREE (no subscription) Okay, if BIMsight doesn't do everything that Navisworks does how fair is that?

Revit 80

Revit Comparison Autodesk Management 80

SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Daylight harvesting in architecture is a complicated task as the most prominent characteristic of daylight is its variability. There are many methods of estimating how daylight will benefit spaces but too often the potential for glare is not properly addressed during design.

Architecture 76

Architecture Estimating Design Visualization 76

Advertisement

Choosing the right procurement software is a crucial step in ensuring third-party risk management, process governance, and bidding efficiency. With so many procurement solutions to choose from, it can be overwhelming without a frame of reference and a solid starting point. This free buyer’s guide will cover: Benefits of Procurement Software –– Why do you need it?

Procurement

Do

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. Tuesday, February 08, 2011. I Love BIM. Kiddos attempt to convince me she can go to work with me: Posted by. alleycatbabe. at 1:34 PM. Labels: BIM. Reactions: 1 comment: Dave Baldacchino. said. LOL!! What should one expect when both your parents are Revit fanatics?

Revit 70

Revit BIM Philadelphia Viewpoint 70

Constructonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Team building is one of those touchy feely ideas that usually gets placed on the priority list alongside dentist office visits and polar bear swimming competitions. This is probably because everyone feels that there are so many more important things to do on a construction project than have some team building event when everyone could be spending their time thinking of ways to suck more money out of their opponent.

Bidding 115

Bidding Defense Contractors IDEA 115

DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

‘Don’t link your arguments to software packages, they weaken them’ – warn me people responding to my posts (they mean the arguments, not the packages, I guess); While a software-neutral position may be more comfortable to comment from, I am not keen to go there for two reasons: 1/ Very few BIM experts out there are truly unbiased to software, even those that are in academia and remote from practice often wear ‘software tinted glasses’.

BIM 57

BIM Software Software ArchiCAD 57

Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Green 243

Green 243

Advertisement

Anything that is built on a poor foundation will soon crumble from the ground up. This is literally the case in the construction stage of projects and it applies just the same during the pre-construction stage. This free eBook is your ultimate guide to scaling your business with customizable software as early as during the bidding stage.

Contractors

Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Read today that Autodesk intends to purchase Blue Ridge Numerics. Then BIM Apps posted some more information about it with a link to their site that offers some videos that describe a Revit plug-in. One of the topics that came up during presentations at the BIMForum last week was, "When will BIM move/transition to simulation, not just modeling/building virtually but testing/validating a design by simulating conditions.

Autodesk 58

Autodesk Revit BIM Conference 58

SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Interior materials and finishes are a component of buildings where life-cycle impacts may be significantly greater than the impact associated with the initial manufacture and installation of the material.

Life Cycle 63

Life Cycle Materials Guidelines Products 63

Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

RCE Endeavors. The End of the World. Skip to content. Home Audience About. ← Running a (32-bit) Process in the Context of Another. [Release] Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion Stat Hack (Undetected) → API Hooking Through Near Call Replacement. Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin. This post will focus on an interesting technique that I thought of this past week.

Visualization 52

Visualization IDEA Green Engineering 52

Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

. Among Marketers, Adobe CS has become the de-facto standard tool for developing proposals and marketing materials. That ends today with the announcement of Hobo Creative Suite (Hobo CS 1.0)!!! Times are tough kids. Especially in the AEC industry, budgets are tight. Who can afford Adobe CS’s $1,200+ a seat? Let’s look at the benefits of Hobo CS: It’s free!

Drawings 48

Drawings Budgeting Budget Software 48

Advertisement

Supply chain challenges and rising material costs are forcing specialty contractors to pay more for what they need to complete each job. Following a simple set of principles, this easy-to-follow guide can help you manage job costs, ease the pains of accounting, and run a more profitable businesses. If you are a Specialty Contractor or Self-performing GC, you do not want to miss out on this essential guide!

Contractors

DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I am stirring up trouble (again), really, this BIM has been around for quite some time and the various groups of direct/or indirect purchasers targeted for services/products that fall under BIM are anything but queuing up to have them; Why is that? Trawl through the web for ‘benefits of BIM modelling’ and you’ll find truckloads of potential gains that various parties will enjoy if they went down the BIM route and forked out additional funds to support this new ‘thing’.

BIM 50

BIM Products Drawings Modeling 50

Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Green 214

Green 214

Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

During the BIMForum James Vandezande ( Arch|Tech Blog contributor and Revit Author ) tweeted about people saying, "BIM Model" and joked about needing to run by the ATM machine. Since BIM stands for Building Information Model or Modeling and ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine (unless you are referring to Asynchronous Transfer Mode).adding the extra model and machine are a bit redundant.

BIM 56

BIM Modeling Revit Software 56

SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Welcome to the LEED® Canada Buildings in Review Supplement. This second issue in an annual series produced in cooperation with SABMag serves as a public record of buildings and interiors in Canada that have obtained LEED certification from the adoption of the rating system in 2009 through to 2010.

Certification 53

Certification Green 53

Advertisement

Research reveals 96% of respondents are very or fairly optimistic about their organization’s growth prospects for the next year. The InEight Global Capital Projects Outlook also finds over half see digital technology as the greatest growth opportunity. But these are only some of the findings. Don't be kept in the dark when it comes to the future. Read the report today!

Construction

Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Powered By ALT.NET Now more than just.NET. Subscribe via RSS. Home. About. 12 Feb/11 0. Razor Syntax–Sections. My last blog post about Razor was a general intro to the syntax. In this post, the concept of sections and layouts will be explained. It is similar to the master pages in ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC ASPX views. This will be in the context of ASP.NET WebMatrix.

IDEA 51

IDEA Documentation Site 51

Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The US Green Building Council is a big player in the construction industry. Government agencies are starting to require that their buildings achieve USGBC’s LEED certification. The term LEED has become synonymous with being environmentally friendly and energy efficient. Starting in the late 90s, professionals in our industry started scrambling to get LEED certified.

Claims 48

Claims Certification Green Industrial 48

DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The best way to get into BIM (even if you’ve never tried it) is by picking a real construction project. You don’t have to be on site, not even associated to a contractor to have a role with tasks closely related to the progress of a construction project. You will be assessing drawings (plans) daily. In the near future, I plan to write about ways to set up a construction-based BIM project.

BIM 48

BIM Drawings Plans Consulting 48