The Korte Company

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

The Korte Company recently completed a $31 million tenant improvement project at Molasky Corporate Center, which is owned by The Molasky Group of Companies. Anchor tenants include Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and Las Vegas Valley Water District’s (LVVWD) who have moved their headquarters into the building. The project encompasses 180,000 square feet on seven floors of the building.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

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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C-School

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Those of you that follow this blog are familiar with the ACE Mentor Program that connects high school students interested in architecture, construction, and engineering with industry professionals that serve as mentors. Our Peninsula One Team within the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter has started a new year with a new group of students and we will be keeping a blog to chronicle our activities from week to week.

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CAD Shack

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Looks like the IAI has created a forum dedicated to helping people getting questions about IFC exchange answered. Check the forum out here. Here is the low down from the site. The purpose of this Forum is to bring together project team members to share their experiences exchanging Industry Foundation Class (IFC) formatted files between different software packages.

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Revit Beginners

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Monday, November 12, 2007. Revit Factory. Buy or sell your content, tutorials, and textures at the Revit Factory. Posted by.

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Revit OpEd

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

My ace reporter Freddy Latherdon has been on hiatus in parts unknown for quite some time but he just sent me this story. He's managed to discover the next great thing for architectural design. Here is his story. "Three Letter Architects to Use New Design Software" During a recent interview, Architect Bucky Fullminster, divulged that his firm "TLA" has decided to pull back from all the clever software they've been using.

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The Korte Company

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

The Korte Company’s Las Vegas Division is once again adding staff and creating full-time positions in response to an increase in the number of projects awarded to the company. Kyle Motycka and Nick Osterbur have been promoted from part-time interns to Project Engineers from within the company. Additionally, Robert Marentette was recently added as a Project Engineer.

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C-School

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

I came across a new blog by Dr. Bradford Sims who is the Department Head of the Construction Management Program at Western Carolina University. The initial postings on this blog provide a great introduction to “Construction Management as a College Major” A link to the blog can be found at: ConstructionEducation.com Blog. A little more information on Dr.

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CAD Shack

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Autodesk has released a content extension for Revit MEP. Download it here. Imperial and Metric are both available. This extension supposedly contains over 300 new families which appear to be almost exclusively mechanical. I counted 15 new electrical families. Well, it sure beats a stick in the eye, and maybe there is something in there that I really need.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

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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Construction Lawyer

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co

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C-School

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

The title of this blog posting was taken from an article found at The Construction Contractor’s Digest. The article is written by Matt Stevens who is a construction consultant in Florida. A brief exerpt of the article can be found below and the entire article and Matt’s blog (which has been around since 2004 according to his archives section) is at: “The Best Industry in the United States” at “The Construction Contractor’s Digest” Blog. “The Best I

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CAD Shack

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Build three is out. Download it here. Here is what it does straight from Autodesk's web page. Improvements made in the Web Update #3 build (20071109_2345): ? Consistent Electrical Fixture insertion behavior after creating Electrical Fixture schedules. ? Improves performance when placing Callouts on MEP models in certain situations. ? Allows the ability to array face-based families placed on a vertical face. ?

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Construction Lawyer

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co

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Construction Lawyer

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co

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Construction Lawyer

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co

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