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Top 5 Trends in Construction Software

Viewpoint Construction Technology

There’s a saying that I’ve heard over the years, “write about what you know.” So, I’d like to take this week to talk about a subject I really know – construction software – something I’ve been doing for more than thirty years.

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Social Media Summit for Construction Brands | Webcast

Construction Marketing

A webcast from the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) will evaluate the BIG 4 social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter), and new options including Google+ and new social media marketing options including Google+. Numerous case studies will demonstrate social media best practices. Results of a national survey will be presented. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for Tuesday, September 18, 2012, at 1 pm CDT.

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How to Win the Olympics of International Retail Construction

HardHatChat

Building Michigan Avenue flagship stores for international brands like Zara is a sweet spot for Englewood Construction. With the 2012 Summer Olympics right around the corner, it got me thinking that with London six hours ahead of Chicago, much of what we’ll be watching will be old news taped from earlier in the day. While most of us will accept delayed Olympic news due to the time zone difference, the same isn’t true when working with international brands and new retail construction.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

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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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Industry frustrated by delays in CSA changes

FDR Safety

USDOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has delayed its promised changes to its Compliance, Safety and Accountability program, and the truck and bus industries are being vocal with their frustration. There’s no wonder they’re at odds: the FMCSA wants to ensure that its CSA program remains effective; the carrier industry wants its safety performance record to be portrayed accurately.

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Retrofitting existing buildings with green roofs

SAB Magazine

Canada’s building stock is relatively old. According to Statistics Canada’s 2000 Commercial and Institutional Building Energy Use Survey [CIBEUS], about 70% of the country’s commercial and institutional buildings were constructed before 1980. 1Since these older buildings consume more energy than their newer counterparts, retrofitting them with energy-efficient technologies can have significant impact on the building sector’s overall energy profile.

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Your vote: The social media and construction marketing ideas book cover

Construction Marketing Ideas

Select your favourite cover. We’re almost ready to publish: Social media and marketing for architectural, engineering and construction companies – What you really need to know to achieve profitable results. I expect the release will be on August 15. The book needs a bit of final writing and proof-reading and this Friday will go to the e-book formatter (a new trade that didn’t exist just a couple of years ago).

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A career in plumbing can lead to many paths | Sustainably Speaking

Contractor Magazine

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Serious And Funny Construction Definitions Contractors Enjoy Reading

Contractor Bookkeeping

Over The Past 30+ Years - I have accumulated a variety of terms to describe the construction industry. Some of them are intended to be funny, some are serious and the rest are entertaining. Please feel free to share them with your friends, relatives and most importantly contractors as they will appreciate the humor and perhaps find value in the words of wisdom we are sharing.

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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 Is Your AEC Business Selling?

Help Everybody Everyday

What are firms in the architecture, engineering, and construction business selling? It may not be what you think. We don’t sell buildings. When you go in to pitch a client…there is no building, there is no bridge, there is no reservoir, there is no plant. It hasn’t been built yet. You can’t hand a client these things like they were pencils you were selling.

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Construction marketing: Five ways to manage interpersonal conflict

Construction Marketing Ideas

One of the biggest challenges in business development and construction marketing is appreciating the hidden forces and conflicts outside of visible range. For example, you go to great effort to make a presentation, but the key decision-maker is missing and for some reason you can’t gather, dislikes you. Various sales and marketing gurus seek to provide advice about overcoming these hidden forces, but there are other issues, as well — and those are the personality conflicts within yo

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Contractors Are Renting Rather Than Buying More Equipment.

ENR Construction

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Unlicensed Contractors Cannot Sue For Payment And May Lose Even More

Contractor Bookkeeping

Some Homeowners And Developers Get Contractors To Work For Free! They Search For Unlicensed Contractors - Have them submit a bid, get them excited to start as soon as possible, give the contractor as little money as possible, stall whenever the contractor asks for more money and when the contractor finally stops work and threatens to sue them they say laugh at them and say "Go Ahead" knowing the odds are the licensed contractor will not likely collect a penny.

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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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2012 SAB Awards Winning Project - Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation

SAB Magazine

The Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence [COE] at Okanagan College was conceived to meet the urgent need for trades people, site managers and construction workers who are skilled in the practices of sustainable building. It includes classrooms, workshops, administrative offices, commercial offices, gymnasium, fitness centre, computer labs, demonstration lab, cafeteria, study spaces and gathering spaces.

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The Dwyer Group salutes veterans, public protectors via franchise.

Contractor Magazine

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Revit OpEd: Due Diligence

Revit OpEd

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Friday, July 27, 2012. Due Diligence. I was musing about a recent conversation where one guys position was that BIM is hype, unnecessary and worse really just being foisted upon our profession in a scheme to get more money from "us".

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Professional Contractor

Contractor Bookkeeping

Professional Contractor. If You Are In This Contractor Group - You are the second largest group of the Four Types Of Contractors. Together you and your like-minded contractors combined production is more than the Enterprise Level Contractors due to the number of contractors similar to you. Here Are A Few Statistical Production Averages Per Person Where You Do Well: Sales Dollar Volume Per Job.

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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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2012 SAB Awards Winning Project - Tallgrass Prairie Pavilion

SAB Magazine

The 65m2 three-season off-grid retreat sits on a 95-acre former tobacco farm in Norfolk County that is undergoing restoration by the owner to tallgrass prairie/black oak savanna, a rare habitat in North America as over 98% has been converted to farmland. The owners’ interest in both design and the conservation of natural areas provided an opportunity to explore a modern approach to sustainability that is rooted in the ecology of the site.

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Construction marketing: Remembering social media priorities — social ‘giving’ counts for most

Construction Marketing Ideas

Thanks to Chris Haught of the Blogging Painters for curating the link that led to this posting. SethC’s posting: Digg Loses Nearly $200 Million, 5 Lessons for WordPress Bloggers on the wpmu.org blog has relevance for anyone in construction marketing, even if you haven’t even considered starting a blog. He reminds us of some rather fundamental (and some relatively new) truths: Social media success requires sharing more than promoting and, always, remembering that the readers’

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Geothermal ?Big Tent? Event to take Place August 16 | Geothermal.

Contractor Magazine

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Dog And Pick-Up Truck Contractor

Contractor Bookkeeping

Dog And Pick-Up Truck Contractor. If You Are In This Contractor Group - You are in the largest group of the Four Types Of Contractors. Together you and your like-minded contractors combined production is more than all the other groups combined due to the sheer number of contractors similar to you. Here Are A Few Statistical Production Averages Per Person Where You Do Well: Sales Dollar Volume Per Job.

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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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2012 SAB Awards Winning Project - Karis Place - More Than A Roof, Vancouver

SAB Magazine

Karis Place is a partnership between More Than A Roof Housing Society, BC Housing, and the City of Vancouver. It provides rental housing as part of the Provincial Homelessness Initiative, which focuses on providing safe, secure and supportive housing in response to the current homelessness crisis in Vancouver.

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How much choice is too much choice in construction marketing

Construction Marketing Ideas

Some psychological research indicates that you should not provide too many choices in your marketing options. The argument is that excessive choice and selection makes it much harder to reach a decision other than “no decision” — and that means, to purchase nothing. The science here isn’t 100 per cent validated. Wikipedia reports: “ The Paradox of Choice – Why More Is Less.

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DebunkTheBIM: If only?

DebunkTheBIM

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’ Thursday, July 26, 2012.

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Salt Of The Earth Contractor

Contractor Bookkeeping

Salt Of The Earth Contractor. If You Are In This Contractor Group - You are the second largest group of the Four Types Of Contractors. Together you and your like-minded contractors combined production is more than the two larger groups combined due to the sheer number of contractors similar to you. Here Are A Few Statistical Production Averages Per Person Where You Do Well: Sales Dollar Volume Per Job.

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Discover 7 Ways to Cut Construction Inefficiencies

Construction sites are often just-barely-controlled chaos. Without clear coordination, you risk everything from clashes to delays, cancellations, and missed deadlines. Get the free eBook & learn how to solve the biggest challenges in construction!

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Superior Radiant Products Achieves ISO 9001:2008 Certification.

Contractor Magazine

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Construction marketing: Needs, wants, emotions and pricing

Construction Marketing Ideas

Far too often, contractors see construction marketing as a pricing challenge. ”If we could come in low on the open bid project, we might win it,” the contractor hopes. This attitude spreads like a cancer to sub-trades and suppliers, who are expected to “sharpen their pencils” and bring in even lower quotes. The results are rarely satisfactory.

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2012 SAB Awards Winning Project - Biological Sciences Building University of British Columbia, Vancouver

SAB Magazine

The mandate of the University of British Columbia Renew program is to modernize, rather than replace, out-dated and obsolete buildings. By rehabilitating old structures, substantial reductions in raw materials, energy inputs, and pollutants are achieved – more than any replacement ‘green’ building could accomplish.

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