March, 2007

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Yurts: Living in.

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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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Blog for ACE Mentoring Program in San Francisco Bay Area

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If you follow this blog, you know that I post frequently on the ACE Mentor program – this program matches high school students with architecture, construction, and engineering professionals. I volunteer with the ACE Mentoring Program’s San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. Their are several groups within the SF Chapter and I specifically participate in the Peninsula Group.

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Revit MEP Wish List now up and running

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Kyle B. has created a Revit MEP Wish List. There is not a lot of action on it yet, but I see one of my current favorites "Riser Diagrams" seems well represented. Take the first step in getting what you want from Revit MEP by. ah asking for it. I'll also add this link to my side bar. All of my sidebar links to Autodesk pages have been updated in consideration of Autodesk's web site reorganization.

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Revit Beginners: The Data Manager

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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. Friday, March 23, 2007. The Data Manager. With the implementation of Revit we, like many offices, have had to assign people to develop Revit standards and content that is specific to our office.

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Optimize Operational Processes With an Industry-Specific ERP

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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E-Specs Demonstration

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As part of the new Philadelphia Revit Users Group we will be hosting a presentation by the makers of E-Specs on Monday evening April 9th. This will not be a sales presentation by any resellers, rather it is meant to be an informational gathering. I encourage all Revit users (arch/struct/MEP) to come out. Also anyone interested in Revit and some of the powerful uses of the BIM model should come too.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: The Open.

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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 Project Managers Needed

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The following clips are taken from the article, “Firms get more family friendly” from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Keith Myers of the Young Group was in a jam. His St. Louis-based company had a $3 million subcontracting job on two 615-megawatt coal-fired power plants that Bechtel Corp. is building in Racine, Wis. — and no one to ramrod it. —-.

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IES Integration with Revit MEP

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Last month Autodesk and IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions) issued a press release announcing that they are ".working together to provide robust building performance analysis capabilities to the Revit platform through a work flow between Autodesk Revit Systems, Autodesk ’s BIM design and documentation software for mechanical/electrical/plumbing ( MEP ) engineering, and the IES software suite. " This partnership will give Revit MEP the ability to perform "thermal analysis, load calculations,

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Revit Beginners: Revit API Development

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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. Friday, March 23, 2007. Revit API Development. Matt Mason of Avatech Solutions has been actively posting new developments in the next Revit API release.

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The Ultimate Procurement Software Buyer’s Guide

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?

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Smart Geometry

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Recently (well in the last 2 months) I had the opportunity to go to a one day conference in New York City titled: Smart Geometry 2007. The conference was partially sponsored by Bentley Systems, makers of Microstation and other products. (Now I know my blog's title uses Revit, but really I'm interested in all things BIM). The conference was focused on the use of some relatively new software that has been built on top of Bentley's Microstation platform: "Smart Geometry".

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Vermiculite and.

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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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Building Trades Group to Partner with ACE Mentor Program

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Check out this article entitled, “Building Trades to Engage ACE Mentor Program” Article can found below: The Building & Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO has partnered with the ACE Mentor Program in an effort to encourage high school students to consider a career in the construction industry. The ACE Mentor Program serves high school youth who are exploring careers in Architecture, Construction, or Engineering.

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Stop Making These Mistakes and Start Scaling Your Specialty Contractor Business

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.

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Department of Quirky - Stair Sketch Failure in Workset Projects

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When working in a Central or Local file you will find that you cannot finish a stair sketch if you sketch Risers first then Boundaries. This assumes you used the Riser and Boundary tools instead of the Run tool. Strange but it makes no difference in a stand alone project but seems to matter a great deal in a central/local file. The workaround at this time is to sketch your stair Boundary completely first then add the Risers.

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Revit Beginners: Evolution News

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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. Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Evolution News. Take a look around and youll find that Revit model data is being exported to other applications for many uses.

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Its been awhile. Using your Project Browser & Project Template

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Yes I know, I've been AWOL for quite sometime. quite busy here are my firm, so that is how life goes sometimes. Recently I've been working on several project, news doors, re-visiting standardized casework and updating our project template. Today I want to focus on a very minor change I've made to our project template. I've added two shared parameters, one called "view classification" to which it is assinged views, and the other "sheet classification".

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Florida International University to build “Future House USA”

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According to this the article below, Florida International University has been selected to provide its vision of the house of the future. A brief excerpt from the article follows: “Miami, FL (February 27, 2007) – Florida International University announced today its distinct honor of representing the United States as part of the Future House Community project in Beijing, China, to be located near the site of the 2008 Olympic Summer Games.

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The Specialty Contractor's Guide to Job Cost Accounting

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!

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How are your “soft skills”?

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The following summary from CMAA Newsbriefs highlights a Wall Street Journal article which points out an important fact – many skills that are difficult to measure, so-called “soft skills”, such as listening, leadership, communication, and teamwork, are critical to ones career growth. Many college-level construction programs do a great job teaching technical skills such as construction scheduling, estimating, and contracting.

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How to access C-School Blog with a feed reader

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I use a feed reader to keep up to date with several blogs on my favorite topics. A feed reader notifies you when one of your favorite blogs has a new posting. Below you will find a post from the folks at Lifehacker which leads you to a great introductory video on feed readers (specifically Google’s version of this tool): Have you been curious about Google Reader but weren’t sure how to get started?

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How to write a resume that leads to an interview

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The main readers of the C-School Blog are construction management students and construction industry professionals that are looking for construction management opportunities in academia – both of these groups can benefit from the the following post on resume writing. This post is from “Rands in Repose” and is geared towards the tech field; but, many of the observations hold true for the construction industry.

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Chico State Performs Well at ASC Reno Competition

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The article entitled, “ Construction management students take home awards” highlights Chico State’s performance at the recent ASC Student Construction Competition held in Reno, NV. According to the article: During the competition, students are given 16 hours to map out the process a construction firm would go through — work schedules, bids and other tasks — on an actual construction project, then present their solution to a team of expert judges.

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Report: Optimism for Construction Growth in the Next Year Remains High

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!

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BYU Performs Well at Student Competitions on Both Coasts

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Per the article entitled, “ BYU Construction Management Wins in East and West” BYU’s CM Program has had a busy and productive student competition season. A portion of the article can be found below: Construction management students went to two competitions this month: The Associate School of Construction [ASC] regional student competition in Reno, Nev., and the International Home Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla.

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Revit Beginners: Open, Sesame

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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. Tuesday, March 06, 2007. Open, Sesame. When you place an existing door or window in an existing wall and then demo the door or window in the new construction phase Revit automatically places an infill wall to replace the door or window.

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Revit Beginners: Filtering View Specific Content

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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, March 05, 2007. Filtering View Specific Content. Do you want to know if Text Backgrounds used in a view are opaque or transparent?

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DRAFT Article – Where Will We Find The Next Generation of Construction Managers? — Northern California Edition

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Below you will find a draft article that I am writing for Construction Management Association of America’s (CMAA) Northern California Chapter Newsletter. I wanted to share it here and request any feedback that the readers of this blog might want to offer up. The article is a little lengthy when compared to the other posts; but, I hope you can give it a read: Where Will We Find The Next Generation of Construction Managers?

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Discover 7 Ways to Cut Construction Inefficiencies

Construction sites are often just-barely-controlled chaos. Without clear coordination, you risk everything from clashes to delays, cancellations, and missed deadlines. Get the free eBook & learn how to solve the biggest challenges in construction!

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Revit Beginners: SpecifiCAD beta for Revit 9.1 released

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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. Sunday, March 04, 2007. SpecifiCAD beta for Revit 9.1 released. CADalytic Media has released a beta version of SpecifiCAD.

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Studying for the LEED V2.2 Test

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If you follow this blog, you will notice that my posting frequency has fallen off quite a bit recently. Instead of posting to the blog, I have been spending my free time studying for the LEED V2.2 AP Test. From what I hear, the test was revised over the past few months and the new test is pretty difficult to pass. To date, my studying has consisted of reading the LEED-NC V2.2 Reference Guide.

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YouTube Video of ACE Mentor Project

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Check out the video below from “A Student Project for ACE Mentor Cumberland Chapter New Jersey 2006″