Viewpoint Construction Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This week, I’m pleased to welcome David DeVita, a safety expert with 20 years of experience, from Carolina Safety Consultants. As I’ve said before, the importance of safety programs goes far beyond the need to comply with standards and regulations. First and foremost, safety programs save lives. They also save financial resources. So it makes sense to understand where the greatest safety risks lie and to have programs in place to address these risk areas.

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FDR Safety

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

While there may be a number of potential divisions between the government and the trucking industry, few seem as difficult as the reporting of crash history. Those divisions are playing out as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration considers changes to its Compliance, Safety and Accountability program, better known as CSA. While some of the changes to the Safety Measurement System individual BASICS will take effect this December, the industry is most anxious to see quicker resolution of

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Monday, September 03, 2012. Changing a Username. Revit stores your username in the Options dialog, Application Menu (the Big R)> Options. Usually this is the same as the username you use to log into your computer. When you enter a different username Revit stores this in the Revit.ini.

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Safety Services Company

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

OSHA extends temporary fall protection measures again. This article was written by Safety Consultants with Safety Services Company , we provide Construction, Manufacturing, and General Industry Safety Programs to over 100,000 clients across the United States and Canada. For more information on a custom safety program for your company, please contact us by clicking here.

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

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’ Saturday, September 1, 2012.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Tuesday, September 04, 2012. Which Overwrite is Right. When we reload a family a dialog appears asking us how wed like to deal with the existing family definition. Technically a more involved dialog can also appear if nested and shared families are involved.

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Help Everybody Everyday

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Some people wonder why technical professionals hate to write custom technical approaches. They hate it because it’s hard. It’s hard to write when you went to school for engineering or architecture. It’s hard to face that you don’t know everything you should know about the client and their challenges. It’s hard to put off billable work and client demands to work on a proposal.

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Safety Services Company

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Keys to glove selection. This article was written by Safety Consultants with Safety Services Company , we provide Construction, Manufacturing, and General Industry Safety Programs to over 100,000 clients across the United States and Canada. For more information on a custom safety program for your company, please contact us by clicking here. Each year more than 150,000 people across all industry sectors injury their hand in some manner.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Matt Handal's book is worth every cent. Yesterday, after returning from a challenging day’s work where I needed to be the person making the construction marketing purchasing , rather than selling or marketing decisions, I received this email from Matt Handal: Mark, I wanted to let you know what’s going down tomorrow. I’m trying something new (well, a few things).

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Friday, September 07, 2012. Connecting Parameters. Youve just downloaded some content from a manufacturers site and realize that none (or many) of its most interesting parameters are not going to show up in your schedule. This is due to the lack of a common shared dictionary of parameters that we can all rely on.

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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Help Everybody Everyday

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I have two exciting announcements and some free stuff for you. Proposal Writing In A Nutshell. Yes, I released a new Kindle Book. Yes, you can get it for FREE today and tomorrow. But before you go do that, let me explain what it is. About a month ago, I was talking to an attorney friend of mine about Proposal Development Secrets: Win More, Work Smarter, and Get Home on Time.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

We are preparing a significant project. A trusted vendor, with whom we have worked in the past on a “trade out” basis, quoted us a price, which is fair and reasonable. Yet we are hesitating. When we are trading services for services, without moving cash, the go/no-go decision is simple. When we need to dig into our pockets to pay with real dollars, the value equation shifts.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Thursday, September 06, 2012. In-Place Massing and Project Orientation Inequity. In-Place families are necessary for some geometry, in particular the massing environment. Ive always stressed that people should start a project without being concerned about site alignment immediately.

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

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Building Information Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

buildingSMART International has published the last release candidate 4 of IFC4. IFC4. The last release candidate 4 of the upcoming IFC4 standard is now available. It can be accessed and downloaded from the official buildingSMART International website, at: [link]. This release candidate is the last preview before publishing IFC4 finally by end of this year.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

This video outlines the use (and promotes) a greeting card service Sendoutcards.com. The concept of a card-sending service is potentially good, but I wouldn’t rush to use this service as it is structured as a multi-level marketing deal, and (perhaps unfairly), the second I see MLM in an offer, I run for the hills. (This bias may reflect that MLM and conventional advertising-earning media don’t always get along too well.).

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Contractor Bookkeeping

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Emerging Contractors Welcome Here. Any Construction Company - That is ready to take a long hard look at what has worked, not worked and map out a strategic plan for the future. This includes brand new contractors, seasoned contractors that have been in business since dirt was two days old and everyone in between. It is limited to construction companies with sales last year between $0 and $5,000,000 where the owners are actively involved in the company's operations.

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

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Construction Dive

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Stack Exchange. log in. |. careers. |. chat. |. meta. |. about. |. faq. Stack Overflow. Questions. Tags. Users. Badges. Unanswered. Ask Question. Limiting data Inserts on database row. up vote. -1. down vote. favorite. Hello currently Im working with this line of code: if( $get_display->level== "Nursery"){ $lbl="Kinder"; } else if( $get_display->level== "Kinder"){ $lbl="Preparatory"; } else if( $get_display->level== "Preparatory"){ $lbl="Grade 1"; } else if( $get_display->level== "Gr

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

The Rookie, a 2002 Hollywood movie, follows all of the conventions. Last night, our family enjoyed a Hollywood sports-hero movie on television. Our 15-year-old son, at a critical juncture, said: ”I know what’s going to happen next” — we all did, most of the time (there were surprises, but not too many). The movie followed the conventions — scoring points with emotions, “relatedness” and safe, predictable entertainment.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Everyone is trying to get more value for the money spent. Showing my age, or maybe how long I have really been in business, I remember when the Yellow Page directory was king. Everybody was there and we all needed to decide how “big” did we want our display ad to be – bigger meant improved placement; therefore it became common to have (3) full page ads side by side to be first.

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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Do

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

skip to main | skip to sidebar. dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. Sunday, September 02, 2012. Art & Science. Vermont House elevation study. It is always interesting to see what pops up on my Google News feed that simply searches "Revit". Most of the time it is various press releases from companies announcing new add-ins or services (not terribly exciting), but occasionally something of real note pops up.

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Building Information Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Integrated design increasingly is recognized as a potential method to assure all performance criteria are considered and optimized in the design and construction of buildings. As indicated above, the participating disciplines must trust the validity of the information provided by other collaborators. – NIBS. It couldn’t be stated any clearer, though certainly could be broadened in context.

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Threatened by demolition, Chicago's Prentice Women's Hospital deserves to be preserved as an example of design excellence and bold engineering.

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Russia has pulled out all the stops to maximize the impact of its role as host of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The world’s largest nation, which spans two continents, has invested nearly $20 billion to upgrade Vladivostok as the Pacific port prepares to host the APEC meeting, which opens on Friday. The makeover is intended to send the message that Russia is looking eastward for economic growth as its trading partners in Europe slide back into recession

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