Construction Marketing

JULY 1, 2011

A webcast entitled New Product Development and Launch Best Practices for Construction is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 1 pm CST. With stratospheric new product development costs, and new product failure rates in excess of 90%, product development and launch systems and processes must be carefully evaluated and more effectively implemented.

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HardHatChat

JULY 19, 2011

If the right team and plan are in place, there are a number of outdated malls that could turn into successful shopping center retrofits. It’s a mixed bag of commercial construction news for shopping center developement. On one hand, retail sales continue to show improvement from last year, yet the suburban shopping mall – or at least the traditional enclosed shopping mall – seems to be on the way out.

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Constructonomics

JULY 15, 2011

This post was written by SPANCO, an industry leader in overhead cranes since 1979. You can find a variety of products on their website including jib cranes, gantry cranes, or an electric hoist. Moving heavy loads around a work environment demands careful attention to safety. Accidents can take a hefty toll in life, limb, and material damages. A fundamental knowledge of inspection, maintenance, and operating procedures can make the difference been smooth operation and a tragic mishap.

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Construction Business Owner

JULY 5, 2011

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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.

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Carol Hagen

JULY 28, 2011

Collaboration on large format construction drawings often has the expectation that all the team players have the same tools. Architects and engineers spend countless hours in AutoCad then share their drawings with the General Contractor. Most smaller GCs have a license of AutoCad just to open these files and make a few annotations. But not everyone on the construction team is fluent in AutoCad nor has a licensed copy.

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Construction Marketing

JULY 22, 2011

Co nstruction marketing is changing rapidly. The marketing mix is evolving, in a good way. There are many reasons for this metamorphosis. First, construction and business-to-business buyers (like consumers) increasingly use the Internet for sourcing and selecting products and services. Therefore search optimization becomes more important than ever. Internet search engine optimization (SEO) and social media both improve search results.

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Julian Construction

JULY 5, 2011

Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « Julian Construction Services Homeowners With No Middleman | Main. | Julian Construction Offers 50% Off on Foundation Replacement » 07/05/2011.

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SAB Magazine

JULY 4, 2011

ammed earth construction is the process of building with sub soils [not top soils or ‘mud’] and compacting them into a formwork of some kind, until they are as solid as stone. It is very similar to the way in which sedimentary rock is formed in nature. Just as there are many colours of sedimentary rock, so there is a natural variation in the colouring of rammed earth – a variation that can be enhanced by the addition of iron oxide or other natural pigments.

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Natural Building

JULY 22, 2011

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart, webmaster of the popular website www.greenhomebuilding.com, posts text and photos featuring what he discovers from around the world.

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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.

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Carol Hagen

JULY 6, 2011

Construction Collaboration often involves sharing documents during an on-line web meeting. While many solutions allow for these sessions to be recorded, there are few that let you leave it open for up to 2 weeks, append to the meeting later, or provide a way to capture the log of the discussion, particularly when changes are made to a “working” PDF.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 28, 2011

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Construction Marketing

JULY 13, 2011

Free Grading Service Now Available! A new marketing grading service is available that measures company or brand marketing performance on a 4.0 grade point average scale similar to education, and then issues a Marketing Report Card. The free Construction Marketing GPA™/Marketing Report Card™ service grades five (5) categories including: brand execution, marketing programs, Internet marketing, social media integration, and marketing results measurement.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 12, 2011

Via a Tweet today HLJacobs posted a video at You Tube demonstrating a patterning tool. Looks interesting! I suspect that HLJacobs is none other than Hiroshi, founder of RevitCity. Could be a coincidence?

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Construction Dive

JULY 22, 2011

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 8, 2011

Consider this: you are a confident consultant (architect, engineer) prepared to stand up publicly and say: “No, we do no BIM in our office and are proud of it! We produce documentation for our buildings ‘the good old way’ and use CAD where absolutely necessary and only to mimic the traditional processes. Our buildings don’t come from cookie-cutters, we fashion each-and-every one from scratch by painstakingly drawing up separate views for all plans, elevations and sections.

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Construction Law Monitor

JULY 26, 2011

Most attorneys, myself included, take for granted how little most individuals know about corporation law and business entities. The distinctions between the different types of entities that can be created are substantial and have a tremendous legal effect on how the business operates from year to year. There are four basic categories of business that can be formed by an individual or groups of individuals: 1) sole proprietor, 2) partnership, 3) limited liability company (aka LLC) and 4) corporat

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 6, 2011

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Construction Marketing

JULY 26, 2011

A webcast on retail home center marketing and merchandising best practices for construction products is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 1 pm CST. Click Here To Register! Learn how to market to The Home Depot, Lowe’s, hardware co-ops and related channels.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 8, 2011

Seth Godin wrote a brief post today called Time for a Workflow Audit. It explains very simply one way people like me (Revit consultants) help others (and their firms) with Revit. As a consultant I tend to call it mentoring. Seth wrote: Go find a geek. Someone who understands gmail, Outlook, Excel and other basic tools. Pay her to sit next to you for an hour and watch you work.

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Do

JULY 26, 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, July 26, 2011. QUACK! Quack was the term we would toss around at Burt Hill when we would look into the future and attempt to divine what was next. What was coming after Revit? Sure Revit is fun and exciting, but its just a tool, and there is always another coming.

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PSMJ Resources

JULY 27, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. PSMJ Resources Inc. Survey Finds that Overall Economy Continues to Languish but A/E Industry Tells a Somewhat Different Story. PSMJ’s latest Quarterly Market Survey shows gradual strengthening and optimism It is no secret that the overall U.S. economy continues to face a great deal of uncertainty and that is creating an environment that doesn’t lend itself well to much near-term optimism.

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Construction Law Monitor

JULY 15, 2011

Thanks to my friend Chris Hill and his Construction Law Musings for allowing me to publish a guest post on this blog this morning survey the nation’s changing immigration laws. The post titled “ The Landscape of US Immigration Laws and How It Affects The Construction Industry ,” reviews the states that have and are considering immigration law reform, and discusses how these new laws can possible effect your construction business.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 15, 2011

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 31, 2011

Two-days-ago’s topic on ‘exchanging digital data’ warrants further consideration. Can you relate to the sentence:" we'll give you CAD files so that SHOULD reduce your work by half"? Few non-hands on people could appreciate the difference a badly exported file could make on the receivers life. This type of over simplification of the issue goes back in time.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 14, 2011

There are two kind of messages that Revit shows you regarding how walls, floors and roofs interact. The first kind (Attach) occurs when the geometry of a wall touches a floor or passes through the floor. If you edit the sketch of a floor, when you finish the sketch Revit asks you if you'd like to attach this wall (or any other walls that intersect too) to the underside of the floor.

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Construction Dive

JULY 13, 2011

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Help Everybody Everyday

JULY 2, 2011

The other day I was working on this site to make it faster. Because of this, I began to reflect on what I have learned in the last two years while trying to develop and grow this site. My “ahas” directly apply to any effort to create an effective website. Here are my “aha” moments/observations:: Subscribers Are More Important Than Visitors.

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Construction Law Monitor

JULY 12, 2011

The Wolfe Law Group, LLC (WLG), has two attorneys ( Scott G. Wolfe, Jr., and Seth J. Smiley ) that are barred in the state of California. As a California attorney, I want to share some of the excellent resources available to contractors through the licensing board. California has over 300,000 licensed contractors, all of which had to be licensed through the state licensing board.

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