Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Lead Generation is Important! With both commercial and residential construction down by double-digits in many markets from pre-recession highs, sales lead generation has never been more important to marketers targeting construction decision makers, whether construction firms or building product manufacturers. This fact is reinforced by a recent Construction Marketing Association survey—2011 Construction Marketing Outlook—which ranked Lead Generation as one of the top priorities for next year.

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HardHatChat

DECEMBER 17, 2010

I’ll say it again, 2010 was a rebuilding year for the commercial construction industry. It wasn’t as bad as 2009, but not as good as 2008. So I’ve created a commercial construction checklist for what we considered the highs and lows of 2010 commercial construction trends. It was a busy year for shopping center renovations, like the new food court construction at Westfield's Old Orchard shopping center in Skokie, Ill.

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Carol Hagen

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today we’d like to welcome a Guest Post from James Benham , president of SmartBidNet and JBKnowledge who has graciously contributed his time and expertise to share this article with our readership. I met James in Phoenix last year when he was the speaker for a construction association dinner meeting and we have been friends (and admirers of each other) ever since.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 14, 2010

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Construction Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2010

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 17, 2010

First Item: David Fano of Case Design, Inc and the website/blog " designreform " has started up a new site called designbymany which is now open to a public beta. David doesn't seem to like upper case letters or spaces between words (insert smiley). Both designreform and designbymany lack both.but I digress. Here's a bit about their mission from their site: snip Welcome to the public Beta of DesignByMany!!

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PSMJ Resources

DECEMBER 13, 2010

At the end of every project, use this nine-question checklist to evaluate the performance of your schedule to identify the symptoms of schedule delays so you can react faster to prevent delays on future projects: *Was the project completed on time? * Was a realistic time schedule estimated for both the design and construction phases? * Was enough flexibility built into the schedule?

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Constructor Marketing that Works

DECEMBER 16, 2010

'Contractor Marketing That Works. HVAC Marketing, Plumbing marketing, Electrical contractor marketing can be tough. Your technical expertise tends to blur the importance of getting and keeping customers to actually PAY for that skill. Thats why weve assembled the best plumbing, electrical and hvac marketing strategies onto one site. Youll find info on Yellow Page ads, Customer Retention Newsletters, HVAC Marketing PowerPacks, Marketing Plans, plus sites for dozens of free contractor marketing re

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SAB Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As more new buildings are becoming LEED certified, the attention is also turning to North America’s existing building stock, which includes many inefficient, poorly functioning, unhealthy, and uncomfortable buildings. Now, building owners are looking to save operating costs as well as get their building LEED EB: O&M [Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance] certified.

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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.

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 15, 2010

EastCoast CAD/CAM announced on November 30th that they are now supporting a workflow from AutoCAD MEP and Revit MEP models to their fabrication software. Here's a snippet of what they wrote: snip Sheet metal contractors and engineers can take advantage of this elegant, yet simple, workflow that enables them to take a fully engineered HVAC design from Autodesk Revit MEP and automatically convert the system layouts with real manufacturer geometry and specifications to the industry-standard AutoCAD

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Green Home Design Architect

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Here is a re-print an article by Jessie Levine, New London NH’s town administrator on the benefits of shopping locally. To read Levine’s entire article (12/7/2010) titled “Budget Update & Shopping Locally,” visit the New London town website. By Jessie Levine You may have noticed that we have some new residents in New London, as the nutcracker soldiers began showing up around town early last week.

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Do

DECEMBER 15, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Big (old) news. So Im like two weeks late on this, but it was official on the last day of AU. Burt Hill has merged. Im now officially an employee of "Uncle Stanley". Still not quite sure what it means in the long term, but at least I have a job, and so far the people Ive met and talked to seem to like me. :-).

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SAB Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The Mount Pleasant Centre sets a precedent, being the first truly multi-service community centre in Vancouver. The integrated program came about through the choice of site. Reviewing its options for the replacement of an aging community centre on the south edge of the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, the Vancouver Park Board began to look for a more central location.

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I read with interest Erik's post this morning regarding a new extension for Revit called Roombook. According to Erik it was introduced for the German market but he says that it has been opened to a wider audience. Erik works with a reseller in the Netherlands so it would make sense that he'd know about it pretty early. I went to check at my subscription page but don't see it listed yet.

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Construction Cost Estimating

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Estimating a construction project budget can be a tedious task that is accentuated by the fact that there are three types of costs that need to be considered. Project budgets generally contain variable, fixed and per-use costs. Depending on the size of the project, it is beneficial to use a spreadsheet to calculate and set the project budget. Instructions: Set the variable pay rates.

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The Korte Company

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The Korte Company, a Design-Build construction company headquartered in St. Louis, MO, has recently begun work at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The company was awarded the Design-Build project through the U.S. Corps of Engineers - Louisville Division.

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SAB Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2010

This 510m2 childcare centre endeavours to address the considerable environmental design ambitions of the Living Building Challenge with the unique early childhood learning objectives of the Reggio Emilio method.

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 14, 2010

To steal from the Willy Wonka movie where the school teacher refers to the "recent unpleasantness", For AUGI, David Harrington (President Elect for AUGI) posted the following update in the current forums. AUGI’s previous web service provider (Illiac) has assured us that the historical forum data is not lost nor are its backups. The data exists in full and will be restored.

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Construction Cost Estimating

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Whenever you start for preparing a construction project, the first step is the most important always. The success of all projects depends on it. And the major part of the first step of any construction is involved estimating. Estimating is the tool, with which the contractor can win the bid of a project, earn maximum profit and finish the project within time frame and budget.

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The Korte Company

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The Korte Company, a Design-Build construction company headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, has partnered with VET Industrial to design and build a Special Operations Forces Headquarters at the Lewis-McChord Joint Base in Washington state.

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SAB Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Commissioned by the Province of Manitoba, and designed for an initial five week service life as the provincial pavilion at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Centre Place Manitoba has now been successfully relocated and re-erected on the outskirts of Winnipeg. The design team had three main objectives in designing the structure: to embody the energy of the Province and its people; to reinforce Manitoba’s position as a centre for culture and trade; and demonstrate its commitment to sustaina

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Okay, I appreciate that people read this blog. At the risk of offending my readers, are some of you dim? Why is Buildz only subscribed to by 541 people (as of today) according to Google Reader? This blog has 1331 subscribers right now. I've been blogging longer but really? Zach's contributions are pretty awesome and I just don't get it. Maybe some of it is a bit scary or arcane compared with the regular Revit stuff we do?

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Construction Cost Estimating

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Estimating the actual cost of performing earthwork requires careful consideration of the variables involved. This includes items such as type of soil, whether water will be encountered, dewatering, whether banks need bracing, disposal of excavated earth, and length of haul to fill or spoil sites, etc. It is very important to consider what time of year the project is scheduled for completion.

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Green Building Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

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BIM & Beam

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We are looking for contributors to the Jan/Feb 2011 issue of AUGI | AEC EDGE. We'll be reaching out to past authors but if any readers are feeling motivated to write something we'd love to hear about it. We are looking for articles focused on construction, collaboration, Revit Structure and civil engineering. Deadline is January 10th for finished work, just shy of four weeks away!

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It's a good idea to become familiar with how reference planes define a work plane for your solid/void forms. It isn't obvious at first or perhaps without digging in for awhile either. I've written about Reference Planes a few times in the past. Once Upon a Reference Plane Once Upon a Workplane - Seeing is Believing Is You Is or Is You Ain't IsReference Setting - Weak and Strong There is a head and tail, the head is where the Reference Plane name appears.

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The beauty of an RSS feed is that new stuff gets added to a pile and I can sift the pile really fast instead of traveling to each and every blog I'm aware of. The time it takes just waiting for web pages to load even in this day and age of fairly ubiquitous and fast access would add up to serious time. I use Google's Reader , maybe not the best but it works for me either on the notebook PC or my phone.

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