Natural Building
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
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
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
I saw an e-mail the other day from a principal of an A/E firm that contained an egregious spelling error. I won't repeat it here, since it was widely distributed, but let's just say that the e-mail did the sender no favors. It infuriates me to no end to see this. Maybe it's because I'm a professional writer/editor who, if nothing else, takes the five seconds necessary to spell-check all outbound communications.
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Constructor Marketing that Works
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
'I hate it. We all hate it. Email has turned into the digital telemarketer during dinner. It''s too much, too often, and - in my lowly estimation – too cheap. I wish they''d charge for it so the spammers, slammers, and scammers could just go bother someone else. In the meantime, you and I nearly dread the return from a vacation, finding inboxes crammed with promised millions, Viagra offers, male "enhancements" and some scandalous promise from the marketing world.
CAD Shack
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the upcoming release of six new AIA Contract Documents on October 17, 2008, including a new Building Information Modeling (BIM) exhibit, as well as two new Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) agreements, two new Design-Build agreements and a Scope of Services document. These new documents, collectively called the 3.5 Release, begin to address the working relationships between parties when incorporating BIM technologies moving toward Integra
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Revit Beginners
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
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, September 15, 2008. Journal of Building Information Modeling. Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling.
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PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
Big news out of Denver last week with the announcement that Chairman and CEO Ralph Peterson will step down as CEO effective January 1, 2009. Lee McIntire, who is currently the firm's president and chief operating officer, will become the firm's CEO at that time. Peterson, who has served as CEO since 1991 and has been employed with CH2M Hill since 1965, will continue to serve as the firm's chairman through the completion of his current term, and will retire in October 2009.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
Just wanted to make a quick point that the acquisition of TBE Group by Australian-based Cardno Limited (the press release called it a merger, but let's call a spade a spade here) is a continuation of Cardno's expansion into the United States. I had lunch with Cardno USA President Michael Renshaw last year at a conference on (surprise, surprise) mergers and acquisitions.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
The American Institute of Architects' Architecture Billings Index (ABI) posted its third consecutive month of improved activity, but still represented the seventh consecutive month with negative scores, indicating that the economic outlook for U.S. architecture firms remains dire. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI shows an approximate 9- to 12-month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
PSMJ's Mergers & Acquisitions Division has learned that Florida based TBE Group announced it has joined forces with Australian-based Cardno Limited in a merger that took effect Sept 15, 2008. The merger with Cardno means that TBE, a 450-person engineering, environment and planning firm becomes a key part of an international industry leader with a combined resource base of 3,400 staff working on projects in more than 60 countries.
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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.
Constructor Marketing that Works
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
'Headline too lengthy? At 17 words, it''s 3 over the "expert''s" limit, but since you''ve now read this sentence, apparently "they" are wrong. Again. The problem with experts, policy, rules is that it is no sooner created than refuted in the area of human psychology and persuasion. Yes, I list "rules" in my seminars and writings. I do this to keep it simple, clear, relatively concise – and I''ll defend to the death that there is a place for such.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Looking at the third quarter Quarterly Economic Indicator Survey at the midpoint of the month(150 responses) here is my key read on our profession: The usual areas are still going strong - health care, education, environmental, water/wastewater, energy/utilities. Water has slowed a bit, but is still strongly positive. Even Telecom is now positive and it was a drag on this sector the past couple of years.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
Stop the presses! (I just can't let the opportunity to use an old movie line go by) House and Senate passed refinancing, President will sign tomorrow, crises over! No contractors or A/Es will be deprived of timely payment, other than through the usual lack of administrative speed of the DOTs.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 11, 2008
Ken Simonson, Chief Economist at The Associated General Contractors of America reports this week that the federal Highway Trust Fund would not have enough money to make full payments to states for highway construction expenditures they had already incurred and submitted for reimbursement. DOT Secretary Mary Peters called on Congress to immediately pass a bill transferring $8 billion from the general fund.
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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?
CAD Shack
SEPTEMBER 11, 2008
I just discovered that if you hold the shift key down while using the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge selected objects, each nudge will be about three times the normal nudge. This is nice when you prefer not to zoom out for a bigger nudge. The more I type nudge the dumber it sounds :).
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
The online resource changingminds.org defines seagull management as a management style whereby a manager “flies in, poops on you and then flies away again”. Seagull managers typically give criticism and direction in equal quantities often without any real understanding of what the job entails. Then before you can object or ask what they really want, they have something more urgent to do.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
The online recruiting community ere.net reports that employers offering transportation subsidies, telecommuting options, and virtual office arrangements may be wooing the best and the brightest candidates right now, even without the highest salaries and biggest relocation budgets in the marketplace. Today it isn’t unusual to find employees spending $5,000 a year just in gas to commute.
Revit Beginners
SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
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. Thursday, September 04, 2008. The Revit Clinic. Harlan Brumm has started a blog called The Revit Clinic. Ill look forward to reading his remedies.
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PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
I hate to end the week on a down note, but I just found out that Stephen Kliment passed away. Kliment, the former editor in chief of Architectural Record, died on September 10 while visiting Germany. According to an obituary posted on the Architectural Record web site, his wife said Kliment died of cancer. Kliment worked as a magazine and book editor, an architect, and a teacher.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
Howard Schoor, who helped found the prominent engineering firm Schoor DePalma in 1969, told a U.S. District Court judge Monday that he paid two Ocean Township, New Jersey sewerage authority officials $15,000 in 2000 and 2001, according to the Newark Star-Ledger. "I am guilty," the 69-year-old engineer said during a hearing in federal court in Newark, New Jersey.
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