Cassell Construction Estimating
JANUARY 23, 2009
This week’s tip concerns using Estimating Explorer, the bid management utility that is bundled with your Sage Timberline Estimating package. We recommend using Estimating Explorer for both creating & managing your Timberline Estimates. This accomplishes multiple goals: Consistency in the way estimates are created, and estimate data fields are filled in.
Construction Dive
JANUARY 20, 2009
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Green Home Design Architect
JANUARY 30, 2009
A green home minimizes the negative impact on its environment through its home design. Here are a few considerations your architect takes into account when designing a green home: 1. Site: Evaluations and analysis of access, slope, ledge, soil, bodies of water, and vegetation in order to limit the home’s impact on the site environment. This includes the site location (farmland, wetland, protected species habitats) and proximity to public transportation, parks, schools, and stores. 2.
CAD Shack
JANUARY 30, 2009
Many door and room tags in the architect's Revit file are just really large and dark when they are linked into your Revit MEP project. They can also mask out MEP content like lights and diffusers. We can bring them down a notch by editing these families in the linked architects project file. Here's how you do it. Open the Architects project file, find an offending tag and select it.
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PSMJ Resources
JANUARY 29, 2009
As most of you know, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the $819 billion economic stimulus package last night. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate, where passage is expected sometime next week. However, because the two bills will be somewhat different, they will need to be ironed out in a conference committee into a version that will then need passage again from the Senate and the House before making their way to President Barack Obama's desk.
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Cassell Construction Estimating
JANUARY 16, 2009
Sometimes it’s the little things that bog you down when you’re using Timberline Estimating. Like simply entering a Subcontractor or a Client into an estimate that you know is in Timberline’s Address Book, but you can’t see when you click into the pick list. Here’s how to make a record in Sage Timberline Office Address Book available in Timberline Estimating: Open AB, and find the Company or Person record that you’d like to use in Timberlne Estimating.
The Korte Company
JANUARY 20, 2009
The Korte Company is pleased to announce that Jeremy Smith has passed the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) test and has been designated a LEED Accredited Professional. Jeremy has been employed as an architectural intern with The Korte Company affiliate TKC Design PC and has been involved with Corporate Center VI, Greenspun Media Group Tenant Improvement, and the Nevada Cancer Institute Support Services Building, all LEED projects that are, or are in the process of, becoming LEED cert
Green Home Design Architect
JANUARY 26, 2009
Why build a green home? Every positive action counts. Many people assume that if you are going to build a green home , you’ll be spending far more money than a regular home. This is not true. From my vantage point, any improvement to any portion of the home building process helps the environment. According to the Brookings Institution, by the year 2030 there will be 34 million new housing units constructed and 23 million existing units will be replaced.
CAD Shack
JANUARY 22, 2009
Yesterday I had a viewport that I could not select in AutoCAD MEP. It just couldn't be picked even with a crossing window. I really didn't know if it was a viewport. To get at it I issued the moved command and typed "all" at the command line effectively selecting every object in the drawing. Then holding down the shift key I unselected everything with a giant crossing window, leaving the un-selectable object still in the selection set.
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PSMJ Resources
JANUARY 28, 2009
Tough news came out this morning that Burt Hill had laid off 18 percent of its workforce in the United Arab Emirates. Burt Hill had designed a motor-racing theme park there, but cut its workforce as the global credit crisis had forced property developers to unload employees and delay projects. According to Bloomberg News, Burt Hill cut staff at its Dubai operation by 111 people.
Constructor Marketing that Works
JANUARY 15, 2009
'Ahh, the nostalgia of car trips. Took one this summer with the whole family, written about in these pages and was only KIDDING about trying to drive and swat my children simultaneously. I actually stopped the car. Anyway.… Just got back from taking my son to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. It’s a 5 ½ hour drive there, even with 515 horsepower from my grossly “un-green” car that may cause Global Warming all by itself.
Cassell Construction Estimating
JANUARY 6, 2009
Happy New Year, and welcome to BC’s Blog for January. The good news is that most of us made it, companies largely intact, through the first year of the recession. We’ve been keeping an eye on President-elect Obama’s stimulus plan. According to ENR, over a billion dollars worth of work (per state) is in various stages of planning and bidding, in Hawaii, Arizona, and Washington.
Stok
JANUARY 5, 2009
Apologies apologies – New Years got the best of us and no one at the office here had the motivation to lift a finger towards the remote nevermind the computer. Therefor we didn’t blog for two days but the good news is that google analytics tells us that no one really cared! From now on [.].
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Green Home Design Architect
JANUARY 23, 2009
Bonin Architects & Associates is exhibiting this weekend at the Northern New England Home Show , Manchester, New Hampshire. Stop by our booth (#1703) and talk to us about your plans to build a green home! Feel free to bring your ideas and sketches. We'll be able to help you get started on a home design that will fit your family's wants and needs, make the most of your site, help protect the environment, and save you money in energy costs.
Natural Building
JANUARY 3, 2009
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.
PSMJ Resources
JANUARY 28, 2009
Interesting Associated Press article that came out yesterday about the $825 billion economic stimulus package. In the article, which runs in a question-and-answer format, Mark Zandi , chief economist at Moody's Economy.com, says the stimulus package will reduce the number of jobs lost in the next two years, not stop workers from losing jobs. Without the package, however, roughly 8 million jobs will be lost by the end of 2010, pushing the unemployment rate to more than 11 percent.
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PSMJ Resources
JANUARY 28, 2009
The American Society of Civil Engineers issued its 2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure and, not surprisingly, it earned a D grade. The Report Card is an assessment by professional engineers of the nation's status in 15 categories of infrastructure. In 2009, all signs point to an infrastructure that is poorly maintained, unable to meet current and future demands, and in some cases, unsafe.
PSMJ Resources
JANUARY 23, 2009
Came across an interesting article on the PR Week site that talks about predictions for the top media trends of 2009. If these come true, they will have a significant impact on how PR professionals pitch media outlets. Among the calculations from Birnbach Communications. * Dozens of newspapers will shift to an online-only model. The traditional media that stay in print will use more maps, graphics, lists, rankings, and statistics, all while running shorter articles.
PSMJ Resources
JANUARY 21, 2009
The sad truth is that many A/E firms - even profitable ones - are laying off staff. For most of us, losing our job is a personally demoralizing and disempowering event - even if the reasons we have been let go are completely unrelated to our job performance or work habits. As our period of unemployment lengthens from weeks to months, our notions about what is a good job fit may become more relaxed as a sense of quiet desperation may set in.
PSMJ Resources
JANUARY 21, 2009
The AIA's Architecture Billings Index moved up a little in December, but continues to mirror the slumping economy. Following consecutive months with record low scores, the December ABI rating was 36.4, up from the 34.7 mark in November (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings). The inquiries for new projects score was 37.7, down from what was the historic low point of 38.3 in November.
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PSMJ Resources
JANUARY 21, 2009
Got an e-mail this morning from PSMJ consultant Charles Nelson in our Australia office that read as follows: "It appears that Australia will be less hurt by the global recession than most other places, but we will be badly hit by the drop in resources demand from China. Mining is a big export here, and a big employer of engineers." Charles tells us that he is working on a survey of attitudes about perceptions of the future and it will share it when it is completed.
Green Home Design Architect
JANUARY 14, 2009
Architecture plays a unique role in our everyday life. An architect has the expertise to combine your wants, needs, and aspirations with your goals of energy efficiency and sustainability to successfully match your project objectives. Architecture affects people every moment of every day. We reside in homes where we sleep, cook, eat and spend time with our families; we typically travel to a building to work or a school to learn.
Green Home Design Architect
JANUARY 6, 2009
One of our frequently asked questions is the difference between sustainable, green, and energy efficient. “Energy efficient” may specifically refer to the home’s energy consumption. A home’s energy usage is primarily heating and cooling. Appliances tend to be the second largest draw now that incandescent lighting is giving way to compact fluorescents, LEDs and other lighting options.
Business Facilities
JANUARY 29, 2009
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