HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Englewood Construction is an expert in winter condition commercial construction practices. The Chicago blizzard of 2011 is a story we’ll be talking about for generations. While most businesses, including commercial construction projects, were closed on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2011, that didn’t mean the best Chicago contractors weren’t working. After all, shopping center landlords, restaurants and retailers couldn’t afford to be closed two days in a row.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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Constructonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Team building is one of those touchy feely ideas that usually gets placed on the priority list alongside dentist office visits and polar bear swimming competitions. This is probably because everyone feels that there are so many more important things to do on a construction project than have some team building event when everyone could be spending their time thinking of ways to suck more money out of their opponent.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

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SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation in Penticton is a post-secondary training facility for students entering the new generation of sustainable building trades. With a floor area of 7,000 sq.m the project is by far the largest of Canada’s current contenders for the Living Building Challenge [LBC].

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Powered By ALT.NET Now more than just.NET. Subscribe via RSS. Home. About. 12 Feb/11 0. Razor Syntax–Sections. My last blog post about Razor was a general intro to the syntax. In this post, the concept of sections and layouts will be explained. It is similar to the master pages in ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC ASPX views. This will be in the context of ASP.NET WebMatrix.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Not quite, but better than most ‘self-claiming’ BIM system I know of; SIMS: Smart environment: preloaded with intelligence – designed to aid/hinder the ‘player’ and still keep the integrity of the game; Smart tools: predesigned and sealed yet customisable and non-limiting; Smart editing: combination of rigidity and flexibility allowing players to innovate and explore, while working within the framework of the game; Smart navigation: intuitive and easy to use, yet fast enough on (almost any) home

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SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Daylight harvesting in architecture is a complicated task as the most prominent characteristic of daylight is its variability. There are many methods of estimating how daylight will benefit spaces but too often the potential for glare is not properly addressed during design.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Read today that Autodesk intends to purchase Blue Ridge Numerics. Then BIM Apps posted some more information about it with a link to their site that offers some videos that describe a Revit plug-in. One of the topics that came up during presentations at the BIMForum last week was, "When will BIM move/transition to simulation, not just modeling/building virtually but testing/validating a design by simulating conditions.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

super Book Reading Blog. PHP Template Programming. Skip to content. Home About. « 3. Reload the management team page and see. Cycling Through a List of Values Another very » index_next: Displays the next iteration index. By admin | February 18, 2011 - 10:23 pm | Smarty. index_next: Displays the next iteration index. iteration: Displays the current iteration index, starting from one. first: Set to true if the current iteration is the first one of the loop. last: Set to true if the cur

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Flatcad is a machine with the purpose to assist in the performance of a set of clearly definable human tasks. Logically, BIM would be one too, maybe a bit more complex, visually enhanced and spatially aware. BIM is not really a machine at all, though at its heart there necessarily sits a device not unlike a machine. What makes BIM more than a machine?

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SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Interior materials and finishes are a component of buildings where life-cycle impacts may be significantly greater than the impact associated with the initial manufacture and installation of the material.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

During the BIMForum James Vandezande ( Arch|Tech Blog contributor and Revit Author ) tweeted about people saying, "BIM Model" and joked about needing to run by the ATM machine. Since BIM stands for Building Information Model or Modeling and ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine (unless you are referring to Asynchronous Transfer Mode).adding the extra model and machine are a bit redundant.

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Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The US Green Building Council is a big player in the construction industry. Government agencies are starting to require that their buildings achieve USGBC’s LEED certification. The term LEED has become synonymous with being environmentally friendly and energy efficient. Starting in the late 90s, professionals in our industry started scrambling to get LEED certified.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

In the mid nineties I was involved in the documentation of a dozen local branches of an international bank. The process was well thought out, we received a fat book on all the standard layouts, fittings, finishes and details. A resident architect familiar with the codes adopted them to the branches’ spatial requirements, we drew up the drawings (Flatcad) and all went (mostly) well.

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SAB Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Welcome to the LEED® Canada Buildings in Review Supplement. This second issue in an annual series produced in cooperation with SABMag serves as a public record of buildings and interiors in Canada that have obtained LEED certification from the adoption of the rating system in 2009 through to 2010.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

While attending the BIMForum Winter 2011 sessions last week I heard two people speak regarding acoustics, Craig Janssen and Andrew Mitchell. During dinner a month ago a HVAC engineer expressed frustration that Revit didn't already provide a way to calculate "noise" or acoustical rating for a space based on the HVAC equipment that relates to it. As it turns out Craig and Andrew's work with Acoustic Dimensions and Revit MEP prompted the same feeling from them.

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Green Home Design Architect

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

It really pays off to use an architect to design your home remodel. This design is for one of our clients renovating their home that was damaged by fire. The fire damaged one wing on the house, so we are replacing it with a new two-story addition. The addition is designed to closely match the existing house while taking advantage of the opportunity to make updates to the floor plan.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In architecture, a section is a drawing that cuts through the building vertically. Resolve then Represent or Represent so you CAN Resolve? A bit of a tongue twister: As a designing/documenting architect regardless of the media you use to assist you conceptualise, interpret, resolve and document – do you clearly buy into one method or the other? Here are descriptions for both: Group One (first resolve then represent) does 1-2 sections through a typical building – maybe a few more in a complex bui

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Drawings Documentation Modeling BIM 48

PSMJ Resources

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Everyone in your firm must bring in new work, not just A/E Marketing and Business Development professionals. Great idea in theory, but do the people in your firm know how to put it into practice? They need to. Fortunately, you can easily convert doers into seller-doers by following these three principles: 1. Learning to sell of professional services occurs on the job, not in the classroom.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Got an email a few days ago and was slow to respond so I thought I'd make a quick video to describe the process too. There is a parent child relationship between electrical "stuff" and it repeats itself as you work "up" the power relationship from receptacle to panel to transformer to panel to switch to. At the bottom of the relationship: Select a receptacle Click Power Circuit button on the ribbon (one doesn't appear if the receptacle is already part of a circuit) Assign a Panel Click Edit Circ

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Construction Cost Estimating

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Friday, February 18, 2011. The Challenge of Construction Project Estimating. When we work on projects that deal with new processes or new technologies, we often find ourselves moving through territory where no one has gone before. Still, our customers, our partners, and our managers want us to provide reliable estimation that we can commit to.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Today, I came across a report titled: Productivity In The Building Network: Assessing The Impacts Of Building Information Models Report to the Built Environment Innovation and Industry Council (29 October 2010); Produced by Allen Consulting Group; A riveting read! I have many favourite parts – one sentence stands out from the rest: “BIM is expected to deliver many benefits to industry at costs that are not materially higher than traditional or alternative management approaches.

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CAD Shack

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011. National BIM Standard Needs Help. The building SMART alliance is asking for help from its members to form what I hope will be the meat of the National BIM Standard. Check out the call for help on their website here. Anyone can participate, that is if you belong to the building SMART alliance or the National Institute of Building Sciences.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Short and sweet tonight! My favorite "quotable moment" from BIMForum , Thursday's sessions after lunch, Dace Campbell with BNBuilders said, " The only time you shouldn't do BIM is if you aren't interested in saving time or money " (I think that's close to what he said, the sentiment is accurate).

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Construction Cost Estimating

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Thursday, February 17, 2011. Blue Ridge Numerics launches Upfront CFD for AEC & MEP professionals. Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc., a renowned company in upfront CFD software just released a new eZine known as Upfront CFD for the Built Environment. This eZine will provide a great benefits to the AEC & MEP professionals by incorporating computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis upfront in the design and engineering procedure for new and existing bu

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

“This BIM thing is great. for the ones that design boxes, or at least buildings that are very modular. Unfortunately, or fortunately we are more the creative type.”.brushes a client away your perfectly pitched presentation on how BIM benefits architects and the end-clients of construction projects. Don’t despair, this is just another barrier that needs to be broken down – the perception of incompatibility between creative and modular, the free form and BIM, the designers and the ones that make b

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Green Building Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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