Help Everybody Everyday

JULY 5, 2012

I imagine you deal with this a lot. Someone at your firm has this great marketing idea that you should implement. It’s a sure sign that the staff member sees the importance of marketing and wants to contribute. You certainly don’t want to discourage that and their idea is actually pretty good. In fact, it’s great. Unfortunately, your firm may be suffering from “great idea-itis” and you have just walked into a minefield.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 6, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Friday, July 06, 2012. YUZU Site Measuring. I received an email yesterday letting me know about YUZU. Their website is found via Picard Innovations , a Dutch firm based in Amsterdam. For readers that are already familiar with the Point Known PKNail site measuring system it appears to be similar, at least in concept.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

JULY 3, 2012

Wikipedia image of Istanbul, Turkey. I’ll be heading to Istanbul, Turkey tonight, via Toronto and Frankfurt, Germany, the first part of an extensive three-nation, two week journey. After Istanbul, we’ll head to Florence Italy and then I travel through memory lane to Victoria Falls and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. This travel is possible in part because I could convert $900 in taxes and fees into what otherwise would have been a $12,000 business class ticket.

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Best Practices Construction Law

JULY 2, 2012

It has been almost three years since the giant (.Google. ) joined the legal research playing field with Westlaw, LEXIS, FindLaw and all the other law-related databases. In November 2009, Google launched a new feature on Google Scholar that made 80+ years of US federal caselaw and 50+ years of US state caselaw searchable and readable. Here's what are able to find: The entire opinions are indexed and available.

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Construction Dive

JUNE 30, 2012

Home About Contact. Mary-Claire Wilson. Eat. Sleep. Breathe. Art. June 30, 2012. All Visceral Arts. By Mary-Claire Wilson. Hide and Fight, 2012. Polly Morgan’s Endless Plains at the All Visual Arts gallery, as you might glean from Hide and Fight , above, is morbid. H&F hits you like a rifle slug as you enter the darkened display room of AVA, the massive carcass of the taxidermied stag sprawled on a white, under-lit platform, every hair and pore preserved in harrowing detail.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

JULY 1, 2012

I continue to be intrigued, but admit I have not mastered, successful video within this blog and our overall publishing network. This may relate to my “old style” print journalism experience. Video, even with new technologies and the ability to record with a simple IPhone or computer video camera, is simply more complex and challenging than print media.

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Help Everybody Everyday

JULY 6, 2012

Here is the book at Barnes and Noble.com. I have some exciting news and information for you. And, of course, I have a gift for some of you. First off, due to popular demand, my book Proposal Development Secrets: Win More, Work Smarter, and Get Home on Time is now available in paperback. The cheapest place to find it at the moment is Barnes and Nobles.

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Do

JULY 2, 2012

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, July 02, 2012. RTC NA wrap up, final thoughts. Home again, and back at the office. :-(. RTC NA was great (again) and the organizers deserve plenty of credit for putting on a great show! James does a great overview post on his blog (with some fantastic inside quotes).

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Contractor Bookkeeping

JULY 4, 2012

People Have Asked Who Our Favorite Clients Are And What We Do For Them. Our Favorite Clients Are Construction Company Owners - Because we have owned and operated construction companies in the past. We do not currently own any construction companies because we feel it seem like we are in competition with our clients. We Believe In Strategy Of Preeminence - Which means we do our best to respect you, your time and your resources by working within the principles of The Strategy of Preeminence which

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Construction Marketing Ideas

JUNE 30, 2012

Allan Johnston presents Mark Buckshon the CSC chapter outstanding contribution award. I usually attend association events with a camera in hand. Often members receive awards and recognition for their contributions. These are great photo shoots for our publications. Few things enhance an award than some positive publicity in relevant media. However, I didn’t bother bringing the camera to an executive planning meeting for the local Construction Specifications Canada chapter.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 6, 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’ Friday, July 6, 2012.

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JUNE 30, 2012

skip to main | skip to sidebar. dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. Saturday, June 30, 2012. Closing talk quote. "get rid of text. If youre using text youre doing it wrong". Posted by. alleycatbabe. at 5:34 PM. Reactions: 3 comments: Dima Chiriacov. said.however, bim managers are not the ones that stay on the project all the time and take all the documentation from the beginning to the end - that is architectural staff.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

JULY 4, 2012

The Strategy of Preeminence. The Strategy of Preeminence - At Fast Easy Accounting simply means our clients are under the care and protection of professionals who are looking out for their best long-term business interests similar to how your physician and/or spiritual advisor supports you in your personal life. You Are Respected - We respect your time, your privacy and your resources.

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Building Information Management

JULY 2, 2012

COBie, the Construction-Operations Building information exchange, is the United States standard for the exchange of information related to manage building assets. There are over twenty commercial off the shelf software products that support COBie. These products cover the entire facility life-cycle from planning, design, construction, commissioning all the way to operations, maintenance, and space management.

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The Korte Company

JULY 2, 2012

The Korte Company was notified late last week that our recent Design-Build healthcare construction work at the Fort Sill Dental Clinic officially achieved LEED Gold st

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PC Construction

JULY 3, 2012

Although our construction work at the Abingdon Water Treatment Plant has been complete for some time, an official. Continue Reading.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

JULY 4, 2012

Here Is Wishing You A Happy And Safe July 4th Celebration!

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JULY 2, 2012

COBie, the Construction-Operations Building information exchange, is the United States standard for the exchange of information related to manage building assets. There are over twenty commercial off the shelf software products that support COBie. These products cover the entire facility life-cycle from planning, design, construction, commissioning all the way to operations, maintenance, and space management.

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Best Practices Construction Law

JULY 2, 2012

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PC Construction

JULY 5, 2012

I am entering my senior year studying mechanical engineering at The University of Vermont. I grew up and. Continue Reading.

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Construction Dive

JULY 2, 2012

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Building Information Management

JULY 2, 2012

Quality, Productivity, and Transparency within the Construction Sector (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner …) will not improve until there is an engaged collaborative focus by all stakeholders embodied within and supported by proven/robust business processes and enabling technology. Ongoing, “living”, iterative processes are needed to account for the many variables typically encountered on any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction proje

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BIM & Beam

JULY 4, 2012

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PC Construction

JULY 3, 2012

I was recently one of over 30 attendees at a workshop presented by Jesse Robbins of Freeman French. Continue Reading.

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Green Industry Professionals

JULY 4, 2012

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JULY 2, 2012

Quality, Productivity, and Transparency within the Construction Sector (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner …) will not improve until there is an engaged collaborative focus by all stakeholders embodied within and supported by proven/robust business processes and enabling technology. Ongoing, “living”, iterative processes are needed to account for the many variables typically encountered on any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction proje

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Construction Knowledge

JULY 3, 2012

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Constructor Marketing that Works

JULY 3, 2012

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