Construction Marketing

MARCH 25, 2011

A webcast and panel discussion entitled Market Research Best Practices for Construction is scheduled for Friday, April 15, 2011 at 12 pm CST. The webcast is free to both members and non-members. Panelists include Alison Brown, Market Research Analyst for Kiewit Corporation , a (ENR) top 10 construction firm, and Jodie Ruana, New Product Research Analyst for Calculated Industries , a leading manufacturer of pro trade calculators and measuring tools.

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Carol Hagen

MARCH 24, 2011

ConExpo-ConAgg is rockin with activity and as a techie and social media consultant it’s time to explain how visitors leverage all the social media outlets during a construction event. You must realize if attendees are looking on-line, they are seeking help, great content and suggestions as to what they haven’t found or seen yet. I noticed early on that the majority of Tweets using the #conexpoconagg hashtag were being used by media and vendors.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 21, 2011

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 22, 2011

The gang at KarelCAD have shared some pdf documents that provide an overview of what features set each release apart, for Revit 2010, 2011 & 2012. Revit Architecture 2012 Revit Structure 2012 Revit MEP 2012.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 21, 2011

Once, when our eldest daughter was quite young she picked a book and asked her father to read it; It was a Hungarian story book (her mother is Hungarian) and my husband said something like this: ‘Sorry, this is in Hungarian, I can’t read it’. The 3-and-a-bit year old offered helpfully: ‘Shall I bring your Hungarian glasses?’ I daily battle numerous ‘real’ and computer languages myself and sometimes think of this little episode.

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PSMJ Resources

MARCH 22, 2011

Actively and effectively tracking business development and marketing return on investment (ROI) is vital for showing firm leaders how essential marketing and business development is for firm success and maintaining (or gaining) a “seat at the table.” If tallying the number of dollars won is the only way your firm is measuring ROI, you’re doing you and your marketing department a disservice.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 21, 2011

Subject line says it all! You can Register for the event now! Registering now qualifies for Earlybird pricing (until April 8, 2011) Visit the Revit Technology Conference site (US Event) Register to Attend (USA) RTC is the midyear "fix" for Revit "addicts" between Autodesk University. It runs just a couple months after Autodesk's new releases appear so you can look forward to seeing all that is new in Revit and related software.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 25, 2011

My analogy based on the knitting-needles fell on a flat- reception. Would it have been different had I used a hammer, a chair, the Rubik-cube instead? We (humans generally) seem to have an overpowering need to do things using the “right” tools. Horses for courses, no mixing up of roles and responsibilities, tools and weapons, aids and obstacles. Sometimes I get asked to assist a friend decide what ‘BIM software’ to buy.

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Do

MARCH 24, 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. Thursday, March 24, 2011. Fun little things you find. So, I suppose this has been posted on AUGI or blogs and such, but since Im back to working on projects it is always fun when you find something "interesting". I never knew (until today) that you cant use the line work tool on objects that are contained in a design option.

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Constructor Marketing that Works

MARCH 24, 2011

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 25, 2011

Conversation last night reminded me of the news release that I intended to mention here but never did. Do you wrestle with Revit's keynoting features? If so you might consider having a closer look at e-SPECS new Keynote features in the 6.0 release they announced this past January.snip e-SPECS v6.0 includes new Keynoting Management at the master and project levels with intelligent assignment of coordinated keynotes to Revit families and materials directly through the e-SPECS Revit Plug-In Console

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 24, 2011

This is an exercise I wanted to do for a long time. Can I have it go around the world? Will you help me do it? So, here is the brief, includes 5 (easy) stages: 1/ Download the Staircase file from the link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4GF8MRLb0DANmI5NDFlN2MtZWNkOS00MWVmLTkyNTYtZWM4MjljZTI3OGRm&hl=en_GB It is a PDF file, about 1Meg in size.

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Do

MARCH 22, 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, March 22, 2011. Perspective Graphics. So heres a realistic example of where Ive used some of the new graphic features in 2012. We have a revolving panel that can be rotated out of the way. In previous versions if you set the view to realistic you wouldnt be able to see what the space would look like closed unless you move the panels out of the way.

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BIM & Beam

MARCH 23, 2011

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 23, 2011

Years ago I was reading a specification for theater rigging equipment. The text describing the necessary chain was written as " proof coil chairs " instead of "proof coil chain". Another project referred to the Porte Cochere (roof and structure that covers an entrance and driveway in front of a building) as " potty coacher ". Today, reading a BIM modeling guideline, the following line grabbed my "funny bone", regarding modelling primary studs, " All King and Kong studs will be modeled ".

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 23, 2011

Most contemporary malls offer spaces that have certain amount of public-area feel. It is deliberate of course – building on the historic popularity of the town-square. Sipping your cappuccino in a fake Italian plaza by the fake fountain under the fake sky of the air-conditioned mall still can be enjoyable, if the real thing is unavailable. It is all win-win as long as you behave well.

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Do

MARCH 22, 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, March 22, 2011. When will 2012 arrive? And when will this new release happen. Sometime in mid April. Posted by. alleycatbabe. at 10:36 AM. Labels: Revit 2012. Reactions: No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Construction Cost Estimating

MARCH 21, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Monday, March 21, 2011. Bill of Material (BOM). A bill of materials sometimes bill of material or BOM is considered as a structured list for an object (semi-finished or finished product) that contains the list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, components, parts with the name, reference number, quantity, and unit of measure of each component.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 23, 2011

The Revit Clinic shared a link to Without a Net which has a post about a new site dedicated to help customers find graphics card/driver information. [link] I tried it and guess what. "no information found". Oh well.that's the story of my graphics card life! ;) Revit also tells me my current driver is "too new", so that's good right? It's either "too old" or "too new".

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 20, 2011

Have you ever worked on a long-sausage building? A very tall, giraffe one? Or committed the sin of designing a building to suit a (drawing) sheet? Did you cut a bedroom short or have fewer car-parks? You will not find ‘undraughtable’ in the dictionary, I guess, because there is no such thing. Systems have existed for a long time to manage unusually shaped buildings by breaking them up into smaller pieces and providing key-drawings for navigation.

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Do

MARCH 21, 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. Monday, March 21, 2011. The gag order is lifted!! Its 2012 Time! Yep, that time of year again folks a new release is right around the corner! With any luck Ill have some follow-up posts but Im working a on a project these days as the PA, so that has been keeping me a bit busy!

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 22, 2011

This image is part of what appears on the Autodesk web page for this new product bundling configuration A lot to digest so you'll need to contact your reseller to see how the pricing and crossgrade options will play out for your firm.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 19, 2011

5 years ago we set up Predefine. My husband Graham came up with the name. I tortured him for days before he uttered the one I was happy with. It had to be one word and made up of 3 syllables. It had to describe exactly, not just what the new company was going to do, but also an entire approach. More intuitively than based on real knowledge, I believed that there was a need to develop a system, that incorporated two main ingredients: An accessible ‘storage’ facility capable of storing past experi

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 25, 2011

I attended three Revit user group meetings this week, BUGIE (aka RUGIE), LARUG and SCRUG. Each was well attended in light of the new release information and Scott Davis, Autodesk Technical Specialist, doing the presentation. Each evening went longer than usual but Scott could run longer than usual talking about one feature! What can he do? He's passionate!

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 24, 2011

Luke who blogs via What Revit Wants put out a challenge for the API and those who speak "it" to provide a tool to inform him about productivity in Revit. Such as: Ensure I (Luke) am using keyboard shortcuts where possible Avoid triggering commands unnecessarily, and thus having to abort them and retry Rod Howarth decided to take him up on the challenge and wrote a post on his own blog that anybody who reads this blog is likely to be interested in seeing too.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 21, 2011

These are just the appetizer slides for the hour long blogger demo of the new features. They appeared briefly and each presenter chose to work directly in Revit instead of flipping slides. As you can imagine, one hour could not have possibly covered every item in great detail. They only had time to discuss these items in more detail: RAC 2012 Parts/Assemblies and dividing elements (construction features) Visualization Point Clouds RST 2012 Analytical Model and Tools Concrete 3D Reinforcement RME

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 21, 2011

David stays up all night working on his "What's New" posts so I don't have to! ;) Wander over to his blog for a very nice recap of what is going to be "in-the-box" in the next release! Nice job David! Oh, there is more but these are the biggies.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 21, 2011

Revit 2012 products will support 3D Connexion devices!! My recent post and my earlier wish come true!

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