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New Product Development and Launch Webcast for Construction

Construction Marketing

A webcast entitled New Product Development and Launch Best Practices for Construction is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 1 pm CST. With stratospheric new product development costs, and new product failure rates in excess of 90%, product development and launch systems and processes must be carefully evaluated and more effectively implemented.

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IGCC Series: Diverting Construction Waste While Cutting Costs.

Green Building Law Update

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Mastering and Essentials - Revit Books at RTC

Revit OpEd

Wiley/Sybex provided six copies for RTC to give away to attendees today (Saturday). The books were so excited this morning that I found them lined up at the door waiting to head to the conference area at the hotel! Thanks to Willem and Wiley/Sybex for the books.oh the authors too, for writing them!! Eddy Krygiel, Phil Read, James Vandezande (also their special chapter contributors).

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Don’t call it BIM! Delegation and BIM.

DebunkTheBIM

What could/should a young architect working within a traditional/hybrid architectural environment do to advance BIM without jeopardising his/her career? You’ve got to be creative! At the heart of all traditional design processes is delegation and delegation is highly reliant on trust. Design and decisions are made by one party and interpreted, implemented, executed by another.

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Optimize Operational Processes With an Industry-Specific ERP

As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

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Cannot select FBC member group | Solspace Support Forums

Construction Dive

We make tools that make websites. About. Contact Us. Support. Register. Login. Forgot your password? Software. Docs. Clients. Blog. My Cart. Support Forums. > Home Forum Home Solspace Add-ons Facebook Connect Thread. Cannot select FBC member group. Posted June 29, 2011 at 12:42am. Kees Internet. Newbie. Total Posts: 10. Joined: May 7, 2010. PM. Ignore.

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Low Walls

Revit OpEd

I was positive I wrote about this in the past but I can't find a post in the pile of posts I've made since the end of 2004. I suppose it could be buried in a post at AUGI. If a wall is less than six feet (or 2000mm, no not exactly equal to six feet) it will NOT use the Cut line weight, it will only show using the Projection line weight. You can "force" Revit to show it as Cut by setting the Top Constraint to the level above and using a negative Top Offset value to drop it back down to it's inten

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You can still say ‘no’ to BIM

DebunkTheBIM

Truly. I’m not doing an about-face here, the BIM movement at the moment could do with more people saying ‘no’. For the right reasons, of course, just as the ones saying ‘yes’ should be doing it only because they truly believe in it. Recreating a non-BIM-PC environment would have two main benefits: One, it would inject real scrutiny to the system, questions only whispered currently would be asked openly; A simple one, comes to mind: “Why?

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Jquery in backend theme

Construction Dive

Home. Download. Add-ons. Help. Forum. Organisation. Project. Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. Did you miss your activation email? October 09, 2012, 06:26:52 AM. 1 Hour. 1 Day. 1 Week. 1 Month. Forever. Login with username, password and session length. Search: Advanced search. Wollen Sie dem WebsiteBaker Team beitreten? Nähere Informationen finden Sie unter hier und auf unserer neuen Webseite. 160556 Posts in 22347 Topics by 7973 Members.

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Julian Construction Services Homeowners With No Middleman.

Julian Construction

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 Can Help Prepare You for Next Earthquake | Main. | Identifying and Correcting Draining Problems » 06/25/2011.

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The Ultimate Procurement Software Buyer’s Guide

Choosing the right procurement software is a crucial step in ensuring third-party risk management, process governance, and bidding efficiency. With so many procurement solutions to choose from, it can be overwhelming without a frame of reference and a solid starting point. This free buyer’s guide will cover: Benefits of Procurement Software –– Why do you need it?

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Revit 2012 Update Available

Revit OpEd

I was able to download web updates to Revit 2012 products via Communication Center this morning (well when I turned on Revit anyway). I also saw that Luke Johnson posted links at his blog What Revit Wants. RevitForum.org also has a thread dedicated to the subject. If you fire up Revit and visit the communication center you should find a notification.

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Will Aconex* figure it out before the others?

DebunkTheBIM

Quite some time ago, I prepared a series of images explaining the idea of the Project BIM Environment based on the parallel of the development of Trans-Atlantic transportation systems. Needless to say (see pictures) that the parallel went down like a lead balloon and I shelved the concept for a while. Most parties I was talking to were still wrapping their tongues around the unpronounceable word of ‘interoperability’ and refused to see that creating an environment where the interoperability proc

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Earthbag.

Natural Building

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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Contractor Marketing That Works: 7 Steps to Lead Generation Riches

Constructor Marketing that Works

'Contractor Marketing That Works. HVAC Marketing, Plumbing marketing, Electrical contractor marketing can be tough. Your technical expertise tends to blur the importance of getting and keeping customers to actually PAY for that skill. Thats why weve assembled the best plumbing, electrical and hvac marketing strategies onto one site. Youll find info on Yellow Page ads, Customer Retention Newsletters, HVAC Marketing PowerPacks, Marketing Plans, plus sites for dozens of free contractor marketing re

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Stop Making These Mistakes and Start Scaling Your Specialty Contractor Business

Anything that is built on a poor foundation will soon crumble from the ground up. This is literally the case in the construction stage of projects and it applies just the same during the pre-construction stage. This free eBook is your ultimate guide to scaling your business with customizable software as early as during the bidding stage.

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Model Medic 2012

Revit OpEd

I wrote about this diagnostic tool when it first appeared. The 2012 compatible version is now available. You can download the new features pdf HERE.

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The accuracy fallacy

DebunkTheBIM

“I hate accuracy in CAD!” I remember a friend declaring 2 decades ago. I also recall, early in my career, small-scale-builders giving me a hard time on construction sites for dimensions on my drawings ending with 2,3,7 (mm); Accuracy is a tricky thing – a double edged sward. It is not an interchangeable term with dimensioning, however the two are closely related.

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Make Networking a Tactical Tool for Success

PSMJ Resources

Most design firm leaders will agree that networking with CEOs and other important decision-makers in client organizations is an important aspect of business development. Yet many firms take a loose approach to networking—it only exists as a “passive” way to identify new client relationships and secure references. Very few firms have a formal networking process.

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Modularization: Bridge Construction Comes to USA from China.

Best Practices Construction Law

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The Specialty Contractor's Guide to Job Cost Accounting

Supply chain challenges and rising material costs are forcing specialty contractors to pay more for what they need to complete each job. Following a simple set of principles, this easy-to-follow guide can help you manage job costs, ease the pains of accounting, and run a more profitable businesses. If you are a Specialty Contractor or Self-performing GC, you do not want to miss out on this essential guide!

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Now Available - Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis 2012!

BIM & Beam

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The sidewalk syndrome: A sign of a maturing BIM?

DebunkTheBIM

Presumptuous I may have come across when I commented on the CME acronym (Common Model Environment) a couple of days ago, I was very pleased to see someone finally pulling the word ‘Environment’ into the BIM picture. For far too long, far too many of us have been defining BIM as ‘digitally representing buildings’. Focus was on the building, or even more on the software to represent the building, parts and assemblies, sometimes relationships but rarely the project environment.

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Autodesk Labs - eTransmit for Revit

Revit OpEd

Anyone who has to share their Revit project files with another entity knows that it can be a little tricky if you want them to have all the ancillary data that might be associated with the project file itself, like imported dwg files. Autodesk Labs released (yesterday) a new candidate for your consideration called eTransmit for Revit. From the Lab's description: snip With eTransmit for Revit, you can: Copy and detach a Revit model and associated files to a single folder for internet transmission

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[Tutorial] Displaying multiple lists in one single ListView (with.

Construction Dive

Paranoid Android. Paranoid in developing Android. About. [Tutorial] Displaying multiple lists in one single ListView (with Android Binding). ListView is one of the most widely used widget in Android Application, it’s main usage is to show a list of child objects. Most common scenario is using it to display a list of objects of the same type, but when you need to display more than one lists in the same Activity, you have to put them in one ListView, but writing custom Adapters to wire them

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Report: Optimism for Construction Growth in the Next Year Remains High

Research reveals 96% of respondents are very or fairly optimistic about their organization’s growth prospects for the next year. The InEight Global Capital Projects Outlook also finds over half see digital technology as the greatest growth opportunity. But these are only some of the findings. Don't be kept in the dark when it comes to the future. Read the report today!

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Could Green Building Policy Trump a Federal Decision? : Green.

Green Building Law Update

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Won’t do no more, BIM101.

DebunkTheBIM

Went to the girls’ school a couple of days ago*. At the entry there’s a sign: “We are a Nut free school!” I wondered: does the exclusion apply for 2 legged nuts too? Got in regardless, so maybe not. ** Curiously enough, the school and its ability and sometime lack of it, to cater for children of different ages and different stages prompted me to finally make a statement: I’m moving on from BIM101.

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Who owns the column?

DebunkTheBIM

C16 is not a column yet, a figment of imagination and a square on a paper. A square or a rectangle, depending if you are looking at the soft-copy-representation (of the hard-copy-print) of the architect’s or structural engineer’s imagination. The architects visualises C16 as a tall and skinny piece, with a rectangular footprint of 400x1000. For the structural engineer, C16 needs to be square.