Construction Marketing
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Twitt er has some amazing capabilities that most people do not know about. Everyone assumes that Twitter is a way to let everyone know what they are doing every minute of everyday. Some individual users may use it for this purpose, but that doesn’t mean you have to listen. This ‘noise’ on Twitter is often a deterrent to most people even giving the micro-blogging platform a chance.
Carol Hagen
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Email can be a contractor’s best friend or worst enemy. Construction personnel communicate frequently to achieve good project outcomes and this usually involves email and with more mobile devices, text messages. Most project managers I speak to are inundated with large volumes of email that take hours to process daily. Many have taken the time to create rules and put emails in various folders to help them sort through their inbox.
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Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 14, 2011
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Green Building Law Update
OCTOBER 10, 2011
This year, the US Green Building Council hosted the 2nd Annual Legal Forum at Greenbuild 2011. The fact that lawyers are now allowed to congregate and make presentations at the Greenbuild conference is an achievement. The green building community seems to understand that green buildings do present new risks that must be managed and attorneys can help.
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Constructonomics
OCTOBER 10, 2011
On Friday I happened to be in a little place called New York City. While there, I happened to stroll through a particular street you may have heard of once or twice before – Wall Street. This time however, there was no sign of Michael Douglass charging along the sidewalk in an Italian suit with a $1500 briefcase. Instead there were thousdand of people in pretty clear protest of the shenanigans that have taken place on Wall Street.
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Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 14, 2011
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Green Building Law Update
OCTOBER 10, 2011
DebunkTheBIM
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Spent yesterday mostly in the air with some of it on the ground between flights, dosing.marvelling at the clockwork-style-machinery-way that the 3 airports I visited all worked – in 3 very different countries, culturally, economically, geographically varied, yet so similar in running airports. I envy industries where the margin for error is small and where the need to fulfil is clear-cut.
Revit OpEd
OCTOBER 12, 2011
This is a repost of one I wrote back in December 2008. It came up again recently in a question via email and I noticed it's a pretty old post so I thought I'd plug it again. Sometimes a name is just too much, too long, it just doesn't fit in a room. The stock Name parameter for a room is easy, it's already there waiting for us to us. When we use abbreviations in this parameter we end up with some full names and some abbreviations.
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Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 12, 2011
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Green Home Design Architect
OCTOBER 14, 2011
For the second year in a row, Kimberly Bonin was voted Member of the Year of the Lake Sunapee Region Chapter BNI (Business Networking International). Kimberly Bonin, Mike Roberts,and Carol Williams Over 200 members from BNI Chapters throughout New Hampshire attended the awards dinner October 6 th at the Castleton in Windham, New Hampshire where Mike Roberts, BNI New Hampshire Executive Director, presented Kim with her award.
DebunkTheBIM
OCTOBER 14, 2011
as I said yesterday, the ‘big picture’ is a bit of a problem for the AEC. It gets lost within the masses of ‘little-ones’, fragmentation seems to be working against it. While personal-aero-transportation appears to manage a similar fragmentation with more success – AEC projects get ground to-halt by the lack of understanding by most of what the big picture is supposed to be.
Revit OpEd
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Comment on my earlier post regarding elevation tags not updating properly.seems that it only affects stand-alone project files. If you are using worksets then the updating process works as expected. Good news for worksharing projects! I guess for now you'd better enable worksharing if you aren't? Thanks to Nick for following up with the comment.
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Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 10, 2011
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Green Building Law Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2011
On September 29, 2011, the Appraisal Institute issued a Green/Energy Efficiency Addendum to its standard Fannie Mae Form 1004. The form has sections for including energy efficient appliances, water savings, energy audit results, energy bills and more. It can be downloaded here. According to the release by the Appraisal Institute, Form 1004 is "the appraisal industry’s most widely used form for mortgage lending purposes.
DebunkTheBIM
OCTOBER 12, 2011
- writes Michael Laws, ex politician, ex mayor, current radio host and commentator. Someone I don’t always agree with, but this time an urge to distribute part of his opinion-peace published in the NZ SundayStarTimes hits me too hard – so I stop fighting and re-blog it. not because of natural disasters nor the world economy, but because we lack the skills base, the employment incentives, the entrepreneurial flair and, most of all, the aspiration.
Revit OpEd
OCTOBER 10, 2011
After working in the theater equipment business (lighting, rigging and curtains) for eleven years I found myself burnt out. Truthfully I was burnt out at around year 9, or at least definitely starting to char. When I was looking for that next thing I stumbled into a good friend and fellow indoor soccer team mate, Joe. He joined a small boutique architecture firm in the little village with the unusual name, Skaneateles, NY.
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Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 10, 2011
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Natural Building
OCTOBER 12, 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.
DebunkTheBIM
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Not the ‘glossy-toy’ type one, I might add – there is no lack of attempts to wow audiences with polished presentations by BIM vendors that shamelessly aim to quickly impress the curious and often ‘defenceless’ viewer and lock-up forever as a software-loyalist. Nor the academy driven attempts to pass on lukewarm theories fashioned in sterile laboratories that may work in principle but are miles-off any reality and unlikely to turn into a workable solution this century or even the next.
Green Building Law Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2011
My loyal readers may have been surprised (or relieved) by my hiatus from publishing. I was not idle, however. I led a study on Energy Efficiency Policy in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on behalf of the Department of Energy-funded Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster for Energy Efficient Buildings. I completed the work last week, and it will be released soon.
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Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 10, 2011
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Best Practices Construction Law
OCTOBER 11, 2011
DebunkTheBIM
OCTOBER 10, 2011
‘Sole-less is the digital’ – some claim bitterly, often relating to digital music, photography, food and design. Sole-full must me the opposite then, the manual, the one off. The construction industry could be claiming to be the last bastion of large scale art-and-craft. The last place where sole-full is created daily. Even under the pretence of the modern and industrial.
Green Building Law Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2011
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PSMJ Resources
OCTOBER 10, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, October 10, 2011. Focus on Your Clients’ Real Issues. When people begin to strategize about proposal opportunities, they tend to focus on their own firm’s strengths and how they can sell those strengths to the client. In other words, they end up making a great case for features for which the client has little interest while ignoring the client’s most important issues.
DebunkTheBIM
OCTOBER 9, 2011
An ex-employee of ours has just got a new job. It’s been almost 2 years since we parted ways and I think of him as a dear friend. One of the 2 best model coordinators we ever had, he now calls himself a FIM, for Fabrication Information Manager. McIntosh Timber Laminates, the company he joined, I came across about a decade ago (they have been around for much longer) – suppliers of glulam beams to NZ and the world.
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