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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 About Jobs Connect Groups Forums Toolbar SMS Alerts RSS Feed Search The Constructor Subscribe by E-Mail to receive latest updates. Home News Videos Tips Building Building Bye Laws Building Materials Aggregates Cement Wood Building Tips Buildings Green Buildings Flooring Formwork/Shuttering Paints & Decoratives Skyscrappers Smart Materials Concrete Concrete Admixtures Concrete Cracks Crack Repair Concrete Durability Concrete Properties Concrete Types Fibre reinforced Fire Proo

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lemont, Ill.-based Englewood Construction, one of the country's leading commercial construction firms, will sponsor the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill., September 25-30. We are proud to be a service provider. Delivering the best commercial contracting services to national and international clients is something we feel privileged to do.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

There’s no doubt that economic conditions change the way we all do business, and this has been especially true over the past several years. From estimating and project management practices to compensation and business management, contractors are finding a “new normal” in every aspect of their business. I hear stories from clients about how aggressive the bidding environment has become, with more and more contractors bidding for each job and many bidding at a loss.

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Construction Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Most construction product brands that sell to professional construction firms typically sell to distributors. Beside the distributor designation, channel participants might be designated as dealers, wholesalers, jobbers, installers, manufacturers representatives or brokers. In this post, we’ll cover various tactics for distributor and channel marketing and share a survey with you, taken by construction marketing professionals, on which channel promotions they use for their marketing and wh

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The Constructor

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 About Jobs Connect Groups Forums Toolbar SMS Alerts RSS Feed Search The Constructor Subscribe by E-Mail to receive latest updates. Home News Videos Tips Building Building Bye Laws Building Materials Aggregates Cement Wood Building Tips Buildings Green Buildings Flooring Formwork/Shuttering Paints & Decoratives Skyscrappers Smart Materials Concrete Concrete Admixtures Concrete Cracks Crack Repair Concrete Durability Concrete Properties Concrete Types Fibre reinforced Fire Proo

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Cassell Construction Estimating

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

'A colleague and friend of many years, Dominick Rose of CDM Engineering, introduced me to several months ago to the Omni-Class standard of construction classification. Omni-Class is a well-organized, multi-faceted methodology whose goal is, by its own definition to, “describe the Built Environment.” A lot of smart people spent a lot of time designing this elegant schema, and it works.

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Help Everybody Everyday

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Believe it or not, there is something marketers can learn from Pink Floyd’s album, Wish You Were Here. It stems from this important question, “Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?” How Syd Appeared While Fronting Pink Floyd. Wish You Were Here is a concept album about absence, about not being there.

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Digger Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

MJL Contractors are currently very busy in the Devon and Cornwall area, with a number of new sites opening up recently. This ever expanding workload has seen the business hiring in a large number of 8 ton class midi excavators from local plant hire companies. Managing Director Matthew Lugg is not a big fan of hiring in machines, preferring to purchase their own kit wherever possible.

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Constructonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

For many people, living green goes further than driving a hybrid car and recycling bottles. Green living is becoming an architectural fashion statement. From rammed earth to yurts to eclectic tree houses, creating a living space that doesn’t increase your carbon fingerprint is both eco-friendly and chic. Look at some of the innovative designs in housing that are setting the tone for green buildings.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Friday, September 14, 2012. Invalid References. Ever see this message? There are a number of reasons why it occurs. This is one example that can occur when swapping families. Not all families are created equal. Shocker I know.sorry.

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Safety Services Company

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Feds to acknowledge 9/11 cancer link. This article was written by Safety Consultants with Safety Services Company , we provide Construction, Manufacturing, and General Industry Safety Programs to over 100,000 clients across the United States and Canada. For more information on a custom safety program for your company, please contact us by clicking here.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Publicity. another marketing resource. Here are the three most effective strategies to obtain free positive media publicity. 1. Do good. Community service and charitable initiatives, if completed with sincerity and intensiveness, will almost guarantee you a media relations win. Even bragging about small contributions will usually provide you some inside page publicity.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Answer The Ten Questions Below And You Be The Judge. QuickBooks Expert Specializing In Construction Bookkeeping Services For Contractors. If after reviewing these questions if you would like to have an open and honest conversation with us about outsourced accounting for your contracting company please contact Sharie at 206-361-3950 or sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Monday, September 10, 2012. Parameter Related Post Summary. Posts from 2005. (2005) What are parameters and why should I care? (2005) Sharing Parameters - An Overview. (2005) Shared Parameters - Part 3. (2005) Shared Parameters - Part 4. (2005) Making a Shared Parameter File. (2005) When is an Instance really a Type?

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Safety Services Company

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

OSHA announces removal path for severe violators. This article was written by Safety Consultants with Safety Services Company , we provide Construction, Manufacturing, and General Industry Safety Programs to over 100,000 clients across the United States and Canada. For more information on a custom safety program for your company, please contact us by clicking here.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Last night, I reconnected with an old friend who can legitimately claim to be the smartest person in Tulsa. He is more intelligent than 99.9999 per cent of the human population. In other words, he has a one-in-a-million intelligence, about the population of the Oklahoma city where he lives. (He belongs to the rarefied super-brainy Omega Society. ).

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

DebunkTheBIM. I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. I believe that hands-on manipulating of project information by all project participants is the key to achieving any meaningful improvement of the AEC industry operating within the post-gambling-era. I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Monday, September 10, 2012.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Thursday, September 13, 2012. Working in the Central File. We are supposed to work in local files. Occasionally people will fire up Revit and end up working in the central file instead. These days it is more deliberate because they have to un-check the Create New Local option to do so.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

When you capture some sure-fire construction marketing success rules and bottle them in a systematic package, you discover they don’t quite look like they seem at fist sight. Structure, systems, measuring, and discipline all appear to be part of the picture, but what seems to matter most is doing what you love, and doing it with a selfless spirit.

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Best Practices Construction Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

On September 6, 2012, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes three categories of changes to DOT's disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) rule. Comments to the proposed rule must be received by November 5, 2012. The proposed improvements include: The NPRM proposes revisions to personal net worth, application, and reporting forms.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Saturday, September 08, 2012. Missing Survey Point. Traded a couple emails with Paul Aubin regarding a clients Survey Point that went missing. It turns out that it had been moved up quite high. Id never tried to move either the Survey or Project Base Point symbols "up" before so it took me by surprise that it could be done.

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Researching rainwater harvesting systems last month was close to overwhelming, to say the least, but in a good way. It’s a very interesting topic, which I plan to follow closely, but there is so much information on the topic, including subtopics, that I had to pull the plug on my research unless I was going to turn the feature article into a thesis.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

From a western (Jewish) perspective, I’m quite astounded how this crappy low-budget YouTube video film could cause such havoc and rioting in places like Libya and Egypt, including the tragic attack that led to the death of a U.S. ambassador and three colleagues. Of course, I cannot understand the translated version, nor the various Arabic communications that would lead to the mob actions and virulent anger.

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Best Practices Construction Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

As a construction attorney, I have been on both the sending side and receiving side of a request for a time extension. Whether the deadline involves discovery responses, a witness interview or a trial brief, most requests are granted. In the construction world of competitive bidding, however, the request for an extension is not so clear. Most bids on construction projects must be accepted within a certain time period; otherwise, they are no longer binding.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Wednesday, September 12, 2012. View Discipline. Daryl wrote on Monday that the concept of View Discipline isnt documented well. Software documentation tends to be a bit dry, too often a very literal, "Un-checking this turns the feature off".

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Bell & Gossett, a leader in education for the hydronic heating and plumbing industries, has announced its training course schedule for the 4th quarter 2012. read more.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Matt Handal’s recent posting: ”Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in the cage?” — about the choice between freedom and superficial security — touched plenty of emotional nerves, though more accurately earlier in life I exchanged a “walk on-part in the war” for a “walk-on role in the cage” — a rather painful adjustment, which took quite a while to resolve.

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