HardHatChat

MARCH 28, 2011

Many shopping center landlords are no longer assuming responsibility for store construction costs, but instead offering higher tenant concessions. Now that spring is officially here, I wanted to reflect on the Chicago retail construction trends and news we’ve seen so far in 2011. From the new commercial construction projects we know are in the pipeline, to what I heard at the recent Bisnow Chicago Retail Summit , I am cautiously optimistic.

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Construction Business Owner

APRIL 1, 2011

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 30, 2011

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Julian Construction

APRIL 1, 2011

Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « JulianConstruction.com: Earthquakes on the Rise--Is Los Angeles Next? | Main. | Julian Construction Offers Retaining Wall Design and Building Service » 04/01/2011.

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Natural Building

MARCH 29, 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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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 1, 2011

I was going to write an April fool’s joke-post for today; Something outrageous and funny. Something to do with BIM. Then, I thought of my staircase exercise. Now, there is a joke for you, a joke on me. Ok, the exercise failed and did not go around the world. Too bad. Can’t quite share the end results with you as yet, they are still rapidly coming in at the rate of. wait for it.1 per week.

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Julian Construction

APRIL 1, 2011

Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « Julian Construction Says Caissons Can Help Support Homes Built on Expansive Soil | Main. | JulianConstruction.com: Preventing Indoor Mold Problems » 04/01/2011.

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Help Everybody Everyday

MARCH 29, 2011

. I’m a big Merlin Mann fanboy. I like to listen to him talk and hear his constantly evolving views on work and productivity. I wanted to share some Merlin with you, the readers and subscribers. I think you’ll benefit from his take on working for a living. Especially if you feel you’re not really sure where you are going. The Conversation.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 1, 2011

Phil posted this at Arch|Tech and I couldn't say it all any better so here it is again.echoed: FYI! Having quickly reached the "early bird" limit for attendees of Revit Technology Conference this year in Huntington Beach, CA early bird registration will close as of this Monday, 4 April (midnight PST). So far registrations have been received from 17 States across the USA as well as several other countries.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 31, 2011

Choosing a CAD software-package in the nineties was a lot of fun. One did not just purchase a tool but took a stand. It was like signing up to a political party, if not quite joining a cult. In the ‘space’ I worked in, it was largely a two horse race. The limited choice did not mean for the fight to be bland – not at all. The purchase came with numerous uncalled-for labels – if you went for AutoCAD you preferred America over Europe, black (screen) over white and PC’s above Macs.

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Julian Construction

APRIL 1, 2011

Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « JulianConstruction.com: How to Prevent Foundation Damage from Water | Main. | JulianConstruction.com: ‘California’s Most Trusted Contractor’ » 04/01/2011.

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Construction Law Monitor

MARCH 28, 2011

From time to time, I have someone guest post here on the Construction Law Monitor, giving our readers a fresh perspective on construction law topics. Today, Emma Martin has contributed a post that I think is really great. She is a writer for CB Structures , a family owned construction and engineering company that specializes in garage builders and pole building design.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 1, 2011

You can't control the visibility of an image file like you can other elements in a Revit family, such as mapping a parameter to the "Visible" parameter. Daniel Stine mentioned this the other day as another candidate for a blog post and I agree! If you have an image in your family, say a logo for a title blog, you can turn it on/off by increasing and decreasing its "size".

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 30, 2011

Must be getting old as I long for the times when a drawing-line meant something and sentences were considered carefully before uttered. As an architect in training I remember being told that every line has to tell a story, a line must have something ‘behind’, a slab, a window sill, a table edge. Now it seems to be the other way around – millions of lines on offer and no story to tell, or the story is confused and fragmented.

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Julian Construction

APRIL 1, 2011

Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « JulianConstruction.com: Preventing Indoor Mold Problems | Main. | JulianConstruction.com: Why Buildings Collapse During an Earthquake » 04/01/2011.

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Green Home Design Architect

MARCH 28, 2011

Remodeling your current home may be a better option for you than finding a new home that fits your needs. Yes, there are plenty of homes on the market, but consider these reasons why many are improving your existing home rather than thinking of packing up and relocating (according to the National Home Builders Association ): Remodeling allows you to customize your home to meet your needs and desires.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 31, 2011

This tip is courtesy of Daniel Stine, author of several Revit books ( listed in previous post ). If you are familiar with the Grid Generator extension for Revit you might have already seen this? If not.have a look! This extension provides a nice summary of all the levels in your project AND their elevations. Also nice is that you don't really have to do anything, just launch the Grid Generator tool and then make sure the Levels option is selected.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 29, 2011

I am a hypocrite. I allowed myself to be invited and entertained for two days at the BuildSmart conference. And, you know what? I did actually pick up a line-of-thought that will make a good topic for a post in the near future – but let’s leave that aside for the moment and deal with the superficial. It’s to do with clash detection. I did not know up till now that ‘clash detection’ was the ‘low hanging fruit of BIM’.

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Julian Construction

APRIL 1, 2011

Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « Types of Home Foundations | Main. | JulianConstruction.com: How to Prevent Foundation Damage from Water » 04/01/2011.

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Best Practices Construction Law

MARCH 28, 2011

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 29, 2011

Dept. of Echo - Autodesk University - stole their post entirely.snip The 19th annual Autodesk University is coming up at the end of November, and if you’d like to teach a course, now is the time to submit your ideas. The high-quality classes and large number of knowledgeable instructors at AU are some of the best to be found anywhere—and this is your opportunity to distinguish yourself and share your expertise as an industry leader with like-minded professionals.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 28, 2011

Thanks, I’ll rather go for English; I can say that. English is my third language. Fourth if I count German that I learned but forgotten. I speak English with a thick Finn Ugor-Slavic accent and muddle up my tenses regularly. I am very careful with the ‘their’ and ‘there’ but still get ‘than’ mixed up with ‘then’. ‘To’ and ‘too’ I’m OK with, but got to be careful not to address ‘staff’ as ‘stuff’.

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Julian Construction

APRIL 1, 2011

Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « JulianConstruction.com: ‘California’s Most Trusted Contractor’ | Main. | Checklist for Diagnosing Foundation Problems » 04/01/2011.

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The Korte Company

APRIL 1, 2011

The Korte Company, a Design-Build construction company headquartered in St. Louis, MO, has begun work on a $9.5 million addition at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 30, 2011

I'm not referring to characters in a play, novel or movie but the characters we use in filenames. Revit will complain if you attempt to use them to name a view, sort of. If you create a drafting view and use something like "1/2:12" it won't complain. Try to rename it and you'll be in trouble with Revit. An odd quirky item to be sure. In general you don't want (I think you don't) to use these characters for view names because they get used to export to dwg/ifc/pdf etc.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 27, 2011

For my youngest, it will have to be one of the last published in the Harry Potters series. For my middle daughter probably the Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The eldest can’t really decide between See ya, Simon; The Catcher in the Rye, and Of Mice and Men For me: Specifications. These are books that accompany ‘for construction drawings’ of yet-to-be-built-buildings.

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Julian Construction

APRIL 1, 2011

Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « Julian Construction Offers Wells Fargo Home Projects Visa Card Financing | Main. | Julian Construction Says Caissons Can Help Support Homes Built on Expansive Soil » 04/01/2011.

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The Korte Company

APRIL 1, 2011

Steve Teipe - who started March 20 as a Quality Control Manager, currently working on the Child Development Center project at Beale AFB, CA. Megan Henschen - who started March 20 as a Project Management Assistant in the Highland office.

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