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Commercial Construction Tips: Six Best Practice Resolutions for 2011

HardHatChat

Bill Di Santo (right) overseeing a design-build project for Englewood Construction. Working with design-build GCs is a good resolution for 2011. January is a great time to create a commercial construction checklist of resolutions to help improve your commercial real estate business in the coming year. I’m sure some of you don’t have the time to draft a list of resolutions, so I’ve done it for you – you can thank me later.

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Will LEED Recertification Address Energy Performance? : Green.

Green Building Law Update

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Where are we headin’ in 2011?

Constructonomics

My theme song for 2011 is gonna be that ’70’s disco song by the Bee-Gee’s. You know, the song from the 1977 hit “Saturday Night Fever”. It goes something like, “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk……Ah ah ah ah, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.” . Oh, if only it were 1977 again. We’d be enjoying 6.5% unemployment, celebrating the completion of the World Trade Center in New York, and wondering what in the hell this Apple computer thing

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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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Revit MEP Book - The Aubin Academy Master Series

Revit OpEd

I received a review copy of Paul's latest effort. He teamed up with three other guys, Darryl McClelland and his other brothers Larry and Darryl. Sorry couldn't resist the Bob Newhart reference (dating myself). Actually his partners were Darryl but also Gregg Stanley and Martin Schmid. I know of Martin because of his role at Autodesk. I have not had the pleasure of meeting Gregg or Darryl yet.

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Learning: Using LD, the GNU Linker, to create a relocatable section.

Construction Dive

Learning. Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Using LD, the GNU Linker, to create a relocatable section of code or data. Relocatable sections are used when you cant load a section of code/data directly where you want. This may be for many reasons for example the memory where the code is supposed to go needs to be initialized first as is the case in ROM images.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements on Building Codes & Going Solo

Construction Law Monitor

In the next seven days, I’ll be speaking at two engagements. The first is available only to students at Loyola New Orleans College of Law, but the second is available to anyone in the New Orleans area through Lorman Seminars. Here are the details. Loyola Law Schools Skills Curriculum. I’ll be visiting Loyola to teach a course through the school’s Skills Curriculum.

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Family Editor Tools - Free from CAD Technology Center

Revit OpEd

CAD Technology Center (CTC Products) has decided to make their tools free to Family Editors who wear authorized uniforms. Actually they didn't make that distinction but I think they should! I used that image in a slide for a Autodesk University session in 2006. It comes from the Rev'IT! site, a Dutch motocycle clothing and accessory company that has the distinction of owning Revit.com originally (and selling it to the Revit we know).

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A digital ethylene tetrafluoroethylene skinmaker?

DebunkTheBIM

The IKEA Home Planner. It is intelligent: elements know their type, name, price, colour, material. They are constrained (a bed will stay on the floor, a power switch will go on the wall); The program is easy to use, intuitive and interactive. Good navigational tools. There are numerous other similar programs available on the market. As you design, you document and prepare a fully priced BOM.

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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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What It Takes to Make Your Staff More Productive

PSMJ Resources

If your firm wants to compete more aggressively in its market sector, then you’ll need to develop a sense of ownership in your staff— a sense of really being part of the business and knowing how their part affects the outcome. In two words…Employee Engagement. To do this in your firm most likely requires a culture change. Why? Because imbuing a sense of ownership means that your staff needs to understand the business, which means knowing more about its internal systems.

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How To Challenge An Unemployment Claim in Louisiana

Construction Law Monitor

When an employee is terminated and claims unemployment benefits in Louisiana, the claim is associated with your business’ account and will affect your unemployment insurance rates in the future. It’s no secret that people can abuse the unemployment benefits system. Unfortunately, the burden really falls on employers to prevent abuses. In Louisiana, unemployment claims are administered by the Louisiana Workforce Commission.

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Marvin Window Content Updated

Revit OpEd

Received an email this morning letting me know that Marvin Windows has update their Revit content, they wrote: We are happy to inform you that we have posted about 41 different Revit families to our Marvin Revit Page. We want to thank those of you who helped us test these families and for spending the time to write and tell us your comments. We were able to incorporate many of your requests in our families.

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BIM cannot substitute for lack of fundamental technical knowledge.

DebunkTheBIM

I like to look at any building as a ‘kit of parts’, and while comparing construction with any type of manufacture gets frowned on, I like how buildings are made up of components, subcomponents and assemblies. Typically, a component is any item that originates from a single source; (arrives on site as a self contained unit) and gets fixed to other components; (window, manhole cover, brick, entire facade) The key determining factor in identifying a component is: the largest single recognisable uni

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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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CAD Shack: Revit Family Tool is Now Free

CAD Shack

Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Revit Family Tool is Now Free. CAD Technology Center has recently made it Revit Family Tools free. According to their web page "The Revit Family Tools allow for easy Revit file management. This program has tools for comparing and merging shared parameters, deleting backup files, type catalog tools, and a family file version detector.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Maxwell Systems? introduces.

Construction Cost Estimating

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Maxwell Systems™ introduces ProContractorMX™ version 2.5. Maxwell System Inc, a pioneer software company in takeoff and estimating , job cost accounting, and project management, just launched Maxwell Systems™ ProContractorMX™ version 2.5. The latest version will provide a great benefit to the concrete and masonry construction companies to enhance their productivity and profitability.

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Advance2000 Webinar - Cloud Computing 2.0

Revit OpEd

I received an invitation to a webinar that this company is hosting on January 25th. I spoke to them at AU and talked to Chris France for a little while. You may be familiar with him as the author of BIM in the Cloud which he wrote for AECbytes while he was the CIO for Little Diversified. Here are the details: (note the space limited part, apparently the internet doesn't have a big enough room?

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BIM building product libraries – just digital stencils or more?

DebunkTheBIM

Manufacturers and suppliers of building products have a long history of promoting to designers; Sometimes this is above-board, they provide informative sessions, library manuals, samples etc. Sometimes they are less ethical – promotional lunches, free products for own use, other perks; Rarely but occasionally, downright dodgy. Do you fault manufacturers and suppliers for their marketing strategies?

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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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CAD Shack: New Blog Awesome Article - Using Revit MEP to.

CAD Shack

Monday, January 17, 2011. New Blog Awesome Article - Using Revit MEP to Calculate Flows For Sizing Duct and Pipe. Phil Pleiss has started a new blog that is pretty cool. His latest post is on Using Revit MEP to Calculate Flows For Sizing Duct and Pipe. Check it out. Nice job Phil. Posted by. Todd Shackelford. at 2:02 PM. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook.

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Part 2 of Green Finance--Alternative Financing Mechanisms For.

Green Building Law Blog

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Dept. of Huh? - A New Little Guy?

Revit OpEd

I've been dealing with getting Windows 7 installed and rebuilding my life on the PC during this past week, finally! A continual experience of, "oh, let's take care of this! Oops, I didn't install that yet.hello Firefox let's download some software!" Like the video I wanted to record for another post next week, oops don't have Jing installed yet. I fired up Revit Architecture 2011 this morning and I'm greeted by this new little guy!

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Picture book documenting: a good way to ease into BIM!

DebunkTheBIM

Traditional working drawing methods were based on the idea that the designer has developed a solution to a problem and that needed to be turned into a reality by people of varying skills and most not party to the initial brief or the reasons that were behind the solution. The basic principles of A3 based ‘picture book documenting’ are not that different from traditional drafting, the aim being to achieve: 1.

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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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Why do we use silly scales when documenting buildings?

DebunkTheBIM

I prepared a file that shows the basic principles of A3 based ‘picture book documenting’. (will post soon); Before I describe the approach, I need to cover another tool in the building documenter’s kit: the scale; Historically building documenters used scales to draw objects in exact proportion to their true size, Common metric scales were 1:100, 1:50, 1:20, 1:10 and 1:5; 1:25 was less favoured though with the advent of the A1/A3 output partnership it gained some traction (1:25 reduced turned in

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A common disclaimer that is a major roadblock to any progress with BIM

DebunkTheBIM

In the mid nineties, Mark Burry – a lecturer at VUW (School of Architecture) was photographed with a CD to promote his course. The capture said, ‘this is the medium soon entire buildings will be documented on and handed to contractors to build from.’ This quote is totally from memory – no offence intended for inaccuracy. This ad was published in the local newspaper.

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Worksets - The Case of the Person is No Longer

Revit OpEd

It happens often enough, the person that Revit tells you "owns" something you need to deal with either isn't working on the project actively now or in some extreme cases doesn't even work at the firm anymore. Before I describe how to cope with this don't apply it to a team who has a rogue member who seems to borrow stuff and not return them all the time.

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