Construction Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Marketing architectural, engineering and/or construction (A/E/C) services is very different than other types of marketing. How? First, A/E/C marketers target owners or managers of public or private construction projects. The focus of marketing is lead generation and winning projects. Relationships and reputation are critical in A/E/C marketing as the financial risk of construction projects is great.

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Carol Hagen

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Construction companies are bombarded by documents daily and making those documents electronic will reduce paper right? Not so fast. According to this Digital Landfill article “77% of invoices that arrive as PDF attachments get printed. 31% of faxed invoices get printed and scanned back in.” Heck, I know people that print out their email!

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HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If your retail construction contractor can build retail stores like this on Michigan Avenue…. For as long as I’ve been in the commercial construction business , which is 30 years, there have been two conflicting trains of thought about clients hiring a general contractor who also works for a competitor. If you did retail construction for Hollywood Videos then you couldn’t build Blockbusters.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I had been hearing whispers that the Army planned to ignore the recently-enacted LEED ban, and now we have proof. Back in December 2011, GBLU reported on legislation that banned the Department of Defense from pursuing LEED Gold or Platinum certification. As reported by BuildingGreen , despite the new law, the Army is reiterating its commitment to LEED certification: In a call with reporters yesterday, [Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary], reiterated the Army's commitment to net-zero and LEED

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

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.

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Construction Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Webcast – Thursday, March 15, 2012. A webcast from the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) will address the challenge of strategic marketing for construction brands, and offer guidance on how to achieve market growth. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for. Thursday, March 15, 2012, at 1 pm CST. CMA Chairman Neil M.

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Stok

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Top 10 Myths about Sustainability 1. Nobody knows what sustainability really means… a. Not true b. Entered the lexicon in 1987 c. “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” d. You learned what it meant in Kindergarten – “don’t take more than [.].

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Subscribe to RSS feed. Search. Leet More. Leet More CTF Team Blog. Home. rfCTF 2011. Hack.lu 2010 CTF write-ups. Leet More 2010 write-ups. « CodeGate 2012 Quals Vuln500 Write-up. CodeGate 2012 Quals – Binary 300 » Feb 26. CodeGate 2012 Quals Forensic 500 Write-up. Writeups. by vos. This file is Forensic file format which is generally used.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

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.

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Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

There is something going on behind the scenes with BIM that I believe will change everything. Its impact on the A/E world, and subsequently the construction world, will be “game changing.” That something is Onlive. While this might seem like wild speculation, read on and you’ll see that everything is in place for a huge evolution in the BIM world that will make the software more advanced, more collaborative, and much more accessible.

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Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

“In the long history of humankind… those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”. Charles Darwin. Latest BIM Adoption Figures for the UK. (Reference Source-NBS National NIB Survey). As annual industry wide survey, carried out by NBS was completed in late 2011 by nearly 1,000 construction professionals representing a range of business sizes and disciplines from across the industry in the UK, including architecture, engineering and surveying.

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SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In the past, architects have relied heavily on industry supplied data when designing and assembling different parts of a building. The majority of the time, the components of a typical wall in Canada are derived from several manufactures, each supplying the performance data for the material itself, but not taking into account other materials in the assembly.

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Construction Law Monitor

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

In the course of staying on the pulse of the construction industry I read numerous articles online, using things like twitter , Google Reader and other forms of social media. Recently, I discovered a website from Darren Slaughter , he designs websites just for contractors! Many contractors have lackluster sites that all but drive away potential clients, and there are still some who do not even have a site.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Every now and then I read or hear someone say that it is faster (in early design) to just sketch lines to create a quick floor plan for concept design (often as a justification for doing the work outside of Revit as well). I also hear that if we are going to do that (in Revit), we should just use Room Separation lines because we can put rooms in to identify them.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

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.

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Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

If your firm works on government projects, there is some news that you need to know. The federal government is changing their definition of “small business” for architecture and engineering firms. These new definitions take effect on March 12th and they may have a significant impact on your business. The changes have to do with how much revenue a firm can generate and still be considered a small business.

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Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Let’s face it, LEED is a great marketing tool, but NOT the solution. “Kudos” to LEED for building awareness and addressing the need to focus upon sustainability of the built environment! That said, high performance buildings should not cost significantly more that “typical construction” The paperwork and methods involved in LEED add superfluous costs and will not necessarily yield optimal results.

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SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

This major redevelopment project was made possible through a very unique and innovative transaction between the Toronto School Board and Tridel Builders. This partnership was designed to leverage construction funding for a replacement school facility by integrating it with a new residential development.

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Construction Law Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Recently, in Los Angeles County, criminal court has been pursuing a wealthy homeowner who is also the contractor / architect of his former home. According to an ABC article , a firefighter was killed back in 2011 when responding to a fire in the 12,500 sq ft mansion of Gerhard Becker. The blaze killed veteran firefighter Glenn Allen. Prosecutors and the LA mayor, are claiming that the gross negligence of the design and construction of a fireplace caused the fire and therefore the death of the Al

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

This is re-post or echo of a post I wrote six months ago. The subject came up again in a couple emails. I was positive I wrote about this in the past but I can't find a post in the pile of posts I've made since the end of 2004. I suppose it could be buried in a post at AUGI. If a wall is less than six feet (or 2000mm, no not exactly equal to six feet) it will NOT use the Cut line weight, it will only show using the Projection line weight.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

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.

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Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Remember I said there was something exciting I was working on. It’s officially here, and I want you to be the first to know about it. Before I tell you all about it, let me give you a little background. What I’ve Learned About Proposals. I believe my experience in the world of proposals to be uncommon. I’ve submitted proposals in every state and overseas.

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Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Cloud Computing and BIM - TME Article 2012. The increasingly competitive financial. and environmental landscape requires. public and private institutions to further. maximize facility planning and management. Technologies such as Building Information. Modeling (BIM) and Cloud Computing. (Cloud) are disruptive technologies. converging to significantly alter traditional. construction and facility management. practices.

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SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

It is becoming increasingly recognized that the majority of the building stock that will be in use in 20 or 30 years time is already built. This has brought the importance of addressing the sustainability of existing buildings to the attention of many in the construction industry.

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Construction Law Monitor

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

On January 30, the New Orleans Mayor, Mitch Landrieu announced plans for what they are calling Contractor’s College. This cutting edge program will aid Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in becoming educated so as to allow them to compete in the market place with other more established construction companies. Mayor Landrieu is quoted as saying: “Contractor’s College is another great example of how we can build capacity among local businesses by removing obstacles that have prevented

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Here are a few quirky "gotcha" items you can encounter when you get serious about using the keynoting tools. If you apply User Keynotes and then change the number values (the Key Value parameter) for them in your keynote file they don't change in the Revit project to reflect the new numbers, even after you Reload the file. That strikes me as undesirable but I believe I understand why.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

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.

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