Construction Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2011

Webcast / Panel Discussion – January 14, 20 at 12 pm CST. A webcast entitled Supercharge Your PR for Construction Markets is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12 pm CST. The webcast will include panelist Paul Deffenbaugh, Chief Content Officer of Deep Brook Media , and former Editorial Director of Reed Construction Group, along with Neil M.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

HOME |. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. LAW |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. FLEET |. SAFETY |. GREEN. Topics. General Management. Software & Technology. Accounting & Finance. Insurance. Construction Law. People Management. Green Building. Construction Safety. Compliance/Regulations. Sales/Marketing. Security. Equipment Management.

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Green Building Law Update

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Carol Hagen

JANUARY 3, 2011

Bing loves Facebook more than Google these days. If you haven’t noticed, Bing displays Facebook profile pictures in their search results using Facebook’s Instant Personalization Notifications so now you can we see all your connections to the right of the regular search results. This is great if you think your friends tastes match yours but you need to think about it from your business friend’s point of view – as a tool for branding you and your comapny – constructio

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 6, 2011

Surprisingly, building owners tend not question why their ‘cakes’ KEEP turning up misshapen, bitter and overpriced; Building-creation is an industry that is based on high level of speculation, ‘endless’ rise of property values as well as supported by propaganda machines reinforcing the idea of construction being a totally unmanageable and unpredictable beast.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 6, 2011

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Revit OpEd

JANUARY 7, 2011

Revit will push drainage/waste fixture units downstream to the end of the system. If three water closets are assigned four (4) waste fixture units each (WFC is the parameter in stock content), the pipes that are attached directly to each water closet will show four (4) WFC as a read only parameter value. As you check each pipe that is closer to the end of the system you'll find the fixture units incrementally increase after each water closet.

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 1, 2011

BIM: Evolution or Revolution? No matter how much buzz is thrown into the arena of building creation that heralds the impending wide acceptance of BIM and IPD industry wide - I am unconvinced that it will happen in the near future. And, if it does happen – it will not be painless. Nor will be a fluffy – evolutional change. In this blog – over the time I will record my thoughts on why I believe this to be the case.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 6, 2011

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.

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 4, 2011

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Constructor Marketing that Works

JANUARY 5, 2011

'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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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 7, 2011

Reading my posts you may assume that I like whinging. Maybe, do be patient; There will be plenty of thoughts on how I believe we can make this work too; Perhaps not for everyone, especially if the verdict is ‘revolution’, all will be revealed in time. I often hear people say – this (as in BIM way of work) is a lot like when we ditched the T square 20 years ago.

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Revit OpEd

JANUARY 4, 2011

Note to self - Next time I'm trying to figure out why the Pipe Sizing routine doesn't activate for a Sanitary Pipe System. remember that it isn't available for that kind of system. From the Help Documentation, Using the Pipe Sizing Dialog : Note: The Pipe Sizing dialog cannot be used to size Sanitary system piping. Personally I think that this note should be on the previous page, called Pipe Sizing.

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PSMJ Resources

JANUARY 4, 2011

How a proposal is written is just as important—if not more—than the content itself. If distracted by the format, wording, or organization of the proposal, the client may not even take the time to consider what your firm has to say. Consider these four key elements to draft a well-written proposal and keep the client reading: 1. Sentence structure - Sentences should be clear and concise.

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Construction Cost Estimating

JANUARY 3, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Monday, January 3, 2011. Steps of a proper Estimation. A proper estimation is integrity of some sequential processes or steps. An accurate estimation gives you the chance to complete the project in schedule time and under budget. The basic understanding of the project estimation gives you some advantage which will be surely beneficial for you.

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 7, 2011

Last time building owners took an interest in who called the shots was when ‘project managers’ got established in a central role, independent from design consultants. I have a lot of respect for PMs in construction. It takes a great amount of skills to do what they do. Their highest achievement: making themselves absolutely essential on all building projects from reroofing granny’s garage to building entire new cities.

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Revit OpEd

JANUARY 1, 2011

The AUGI board will be welcoming a new member , Shaun Bryant of the UK, as today is his first day on the job. Welcome and good luck! In light of the recent web site and forum issues I thought I'd share, as the basis for a note to the new Board , links to six posts by Seth Godin. These all appeared on his blog in the several days following the arrival of the new AUGI web site at the beginning of last month.

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Green Building Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

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Construction Cost Estimating

JANUARY 7, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Friday, January 7, 2011. Cost Estimator: A Profession to Give Security. Cost estimating is a well formulated prediction of the probable construction cost of a specific building project. In the designing phase of the project, cost estimation is an important management tool for providing information about the facility and the project budget.

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 5, 2011

Let me throw another player in the game, called: “integrity of project information”; Most of construction projects suffer from lack of it. When it comes to truthfulness of project information there is very little to find; In short: there are lots of drawings but very little information you can trust. No dimensions, levels or explicit instructions. And you are not allowed to scale off drawings.

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Revit OpEd

JANUARY 1, 2011

The newest issue of AUGI | AEC EDGE, Fall 2010, is now available. There are high and low resolution pdf copies available now. I'm not sure what the status of the online reader version is right now. I'll post again when I know more. Fwiw, the naming of the issues has been a little confusing even for me at times. The intention was to publish each issue at the "end" of the season it is named for.

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CAD Shack

JANUARY 6, 2011

Thursday, January 06, 2011. Revit Palettes - The Family Browser from Kiwi Codes Solutions. A friend passed this on to me and I am passing it out to all of you. The folks at Kiwi Codes Solutions have developed a Family Browser that looks and acts like an AutoCAD palette inside of Revit products. They are actively working on a new version which should be released early this year.

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 4, 2011

Orthogonal projection? A bit of a mouthful; My answers to yesterday’s questions: 1/ Orthogonal projection is a drawing created by projecting objects onto planes at 90 degrees (orthogonally); 2/ Object are represented in true size and shape (albeit often scaled); 3/ At least 2 (there are exceptions); So, OK – you may not associate plans and elevations with orthogonal projections!

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 3, 2011

People in construction do not know how to read plans. Neither do those that draw, nor those that interpret drawings. An unfair generalisation? Unconvinced? Orthogonal projection is the base of most construction related graphical documentation. It is performed every time a plan, elevation, section or detail is drawn or interpreted; What are the most important rules of this technique?

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 2, 2011

I should define ‘my’ BIM at the start. Instead, I plan to go backwards and find my answers by exploring elements that are commonly associated with BIM and are easier to define. Take for example how we communicate buildings: In the past, when a building was needed, someone drew a plan, an elevation and sections to describe what it should be like. This process required both the originator of the information (the designer) and the one using the information (the builder) to be fluent in rules of ort

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