Construction Marketing
MARCH 15, 2011
The Secret Engine Behind Effective Lead Generation, Nurturing and Management. Credit to Josh Stailey of The Pursuit Group, Inc. and The Business Marketing Institute. This is part one in a two part series on marketing automation. Marketing Automation, Part 2 highlights the 4 pillars to success. This post will explain what marketing automation is and why you need it.
HardHatChat
MARCH 15, 2011
Englewood Construction has worked on a number of Chicago retail construction projects in high-traffic urban areas, such as American Girl Place on Michigan Avenue. With the recent Chicago commercial construction news of Target moving to State Street and Wal-Mart opening its Neighborhood Market store at Presidential Towers, it begs the question of what other big box retailers might take advantage of current commercial construction costs and available space to introduce a smaller concept store to d
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Green Building Law Update
MARCH 15, 2011
DebunkTheBIM
MARCH 16, 2011
That tells you a lot about my life I guess. Still, before you call me a hypocrite (i.e. encouraging software tribalism) – here is a challenge: I’ll show you mine (Archicad marquee), you show me yours (spatial filtering device); I use the marquee a lot – to examine parts of the building I am interested in. Sections can do the job too, the marquee will get me there with fewer steps and faster; I treat it a bit like an ice-cream scoop, or a surgeon’s knife, depending on the stage of the job I am in
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Help Everybody Everyday
MARCH 14, 2011
. I was sitting in a Detroit airport waiting for a plane to Atlanta. A well dressed gentleman sat next to me. I asked if he would watch my bag as I got a snack. He said, “sure.” So I went and got my snack and came back with a bottle of water for him. We got to talking. He was an advertising exec who worked with McDonalds, Ford, and other large companies.
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DebunkTheBIM
MARCH 18, 2011
If you can build it, I can (digitally) model it. In the past I’ve built historic buildings, modern churches, kitchen appliances, curvy cabinets, even boats and people-body-parts. Still, I should not be building objects for building suppliers to distribute to specifiers. See pictures attached; The sofa on the left will kill your model. Or, if not kill it – slow it down from manageable through annoying to.
Help Everybody Everyday
MARCH 14, 2011
. In my last post , I gave a little diatribe on taking the next step in your aec marketing career. One of the pieces of advice I gave was use your own time to become awesome at something. I can’t stress this enough. But since I like to read articles with actionable advice, let me give you some more detail on what you can or should become awesome at.
Revit OpEd
MARCH 15, 2011
Just read about this new application this morning as well. ModelMedic is… Model analysis software: Quickly and easily find all loaded elements – even hidden elements – within a Revit project. A diagnostic tool: Locate elements which may be impairing Revit’s performance and stability. Find and fix problems faster and easier. You don’t have to be a Revit Guru to spot the potential problems in your model.
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Green Building Law Update
MARCH 18, 2011
DebunkTheBIM
MARCH 17, 2011
In democracies people collectively own a lot of buildings. Many BIM arguments focus on piloting BIM through these projects. Innovation is encouraged on the premise that if it is regulated, it will happen. Theoretically this makes sense, not according to my experience. Government owner representatives tend to always play-it-safe and wiggle out of any meaningful innovation.
CAD Shack
MARCH 16, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Revit MEP How to Create a Lighting Fixture Schedule. This just came out in the March issue of AUGIWorld or read it directly below. Revit MEP offers many advantages compared to two dimensional CAD programs. A big advantage is the ability to quantify Revit objects in schedules. Knowing exactly what you have in a model at all times and knowing that number is correct, brings a level of confidence that enhances the design.
Revit OpEd
MARCH 17, 2011
At RTC last year we had a session called Glorious Gadgets. If you watch the video I posted last week there is a shot with a guy wearing some probes on his head. That was one such gadget ( Emotiv ) used to control Navisworks and walking through a building with our thoughts. We are planning to have the session again at both events RTCAUS and RTCUSA. I just received a "glorious gadget" yesterday, a Space Explorer from 3D Connexion.
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Construction Law Monitor
MARCH 13, 2011
Over the weekend much of the world gazed horrifically at the sights coming out of Japan in the wake if the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunamis. One of the amazing and hopeful sights was to see that the buildings in Tokyo and other cities lived up to the “bend but don’t break” motto. Shocking video taken shows that the buildings did just as designed and withstood the earth’s movement.
DebunkTheBIM
MARCH 15, 2011
a good friend of mine tells me off – as we discuss my latest doom-theory regarding the future of this noble profession. I clarify, that I don’t mean the need for buildings will disappear but the need for people to do what (and how) they do while practicing as architects. Even with the qualifier, my theory does not go down well with her, a talented architect with over 20 years of experience.
PSMJ Resources
MARCH 15, 2011
Raising Rates an Underused Strategy for Improved Profitability Newton, MA — The factors putting downward pressure on earnings in today’s economy are many. Revenues are down with more firms chasing fewer projects and rising costs are putting a tighter and tighter squeeze on many A/E firms. Further, with hungry competition seemingly everywhere, it may appear counterintuitive that raising rates would be a viable strategy for increased profitability in the current economy.
Revit OpEd
MARCH 16, 2011
Next week if you live near one of these Southern California user groups you should plan to attend. BIM User Group Inland Empire (BUGIE) Tuesday (March 22) Hosted at HMC Architects 3546 Concours Street, Ontario, CA 91764 Los Angeles Revit User Group ( LARUG ) Wednesday (March 23) Hosted this month by Lee, Burkhart, Liu, Inc. 13335 Maxella Avenue, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 South Coast Revit User Group ( SCRUG ) Thursday (March 24) Hosted at LPA, Inc. 5161 California Avenue Ste 100, Irvine, CA I'm j
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Fins Architecture
MARCH 18, 2011
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DebunkTheBIM
MARCH 14, 2011
I urged you in my previous posts to develop clever digital libraries that architects and other specifiers could use in their models. The development part is easy – depending on your budget you (you = building product supplier) can outsource the development of digital representations of your products for one or multiple platforms. Distribution is OK –– just use your existing channels.
PSMJ Resources
MARCH 14, 2011
Being an effective project manager requires much more than proven technical proficiency. Especially during this last recession, your ability to protect the financial health of projects on a day-to-day basis became vital to their overall success. Now, as the economy continues to improve, that responsibility will become even more important. Keep this list as a daily reminder of your key financial responsibilities as a project manager: 1.
Revit OpEd
MARCH 15, 2011
Nice bit of news in my Google Reader feed this morning! Since my previous post they've improved on the first release of the plug-in. Here's what's new from It is Alive in the Lab: Added support for door renumbering Added support for the form to adjust to Windows Display and DPI settings Form is not topmost anymore, that is, it does not cover other applications' windows Added "Zero padding" option to the assigned number, e.g. 009 instead of 9.
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Construction Cost Estimating
MARCH 17, 2011
Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Thursday, March 17, 2011. American Concrete Institute introduces four new publications useful for concrete industry. The American Concrete Institute (ACI) launches four new publications focusing on the most updated concrete-related information and technology. All ACI members are eligible to get a special discount (up to 40 percent) on all ACI publications.
DebunkTheBIM
MARCH 13, 2011
Talk about being misunderstood! I managed to create an impression of fighting a war with all CAD/BIM related software developers/suppliers. Hang on! Stop accusing me for being unfairly critical to them, putting the knife in, biting the hand that feeds me. Let’s be sensible! I do have great admiration for software developers – especially for the doers, working the trenches.
Construction Law Monitor
MARCH 15, 2011
Over the past six months, we’ve posted about an Oregon case making its way up the court’s tiers: Abraham v. T. Henry Construction, Inc. The case is important because it carved an exception to the economic loss rule, which typically prohibits a tort claim between contracting parties when the claims arises out of a failure to perform contractual obligations.
Revit OpEd
MARCH 18, 2011
Warning! Before I echo what you should read you need to: Wait till tonight/tomorrow night Grab a beer (or preferred beverage) Chips (or preferred snack) Close your office door Turn on a little reading music Turn off the phone/Facebook/Twitter etc. Tell the neighbors you are out Tell your wife/spouse/kids that you are not to be disturbed Then wander over to Aaron Maller's blog Malleristic Revitation.
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Best Practices Construction Law
MARCH 17, 2011
DebunkTheBIM
MARCH 12, 2011
Growing up under a number of parallel, contradicting and highly dogmatic influencers evolved my ‘rubbish-o-meter’ senses to counterproductive levels. I am sensitive but regrettably not also immune to poor PR. A couple of days ago, I was approached by an event organiser. She was working for a huge expo-company planning a major event for the city I now call home.
Revit OpEd
MARCH 16, 2011
Tekla issued a press release today to say that their model viewer application is now supporting 64bit operating systems. Here's a snippet from their site.snip Latest version of Tekla BIMsight application brings along the ability to handle even bigger, combined 3D building information models much faster. Software users who have a 64-bit computer will benefit greatly from this 64-bit version.snip.
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