Construction Marketing
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
(And Why This May Be Killing Your Company’s Sales). Originally posted by the Business Marketing Institute, by Eric Gagnon. According to a recent study from Marketing Management Analytics and Financial Executives International, only 7% of financial executives surveyed were satisfied with their company’s ability to measure the ROI of their company’s marketing program.
Green Building Law Update
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Three weeks ago, Washington DC was hit by both an earthquake and a hurricane. But this was not the most shocking development during the week -- at least for me. Here's what shocked me the most: I learned there is a chance that LEED bonds could be available in our nation's capital. On Wednesday, August 24, I attended a meeting of the DC Green Building Codes working group.
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Construction Business Owner
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
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Constructonomics
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Schuylkill has to be one of the weirdest words to spell. Try spelling it without looking – I guarantee you won’t get it. I always thought it was an Indian word but after reading somewhere on the internet, I learned that it’s actually Dutch, named by its Dutch discoverer. Either way, it’s hard to spell, however, it is typically a good place for recreation.
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Construction Marketing
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Attention all Construction Marketers! If you’ve been waiting to submit your best marketing projects and campaigns to the CMA STAR Awards now is the time! As submissions have been pouring in, the staff here at the Construction Marketing Association is growing increasingly excited for the announcement of the winners October 30, 2011. STAR and SUPERSTAR and BEST of SHOW will receive a commemorative certificate, with the option to purchase a statuette/trophy designed and manufactured by the sa
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Chianelli Estimating
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Build profitability into your projects from the start by using an outsourcing construction estimating specialist. . Time is money and a cost estimating service will help you gain time and allow you to focus on building relationships and not get bogged down with the day to day worries of getting that bid done on time. As a business owner it may seem that managing all the facets of your business are grueling and never ending.
Do
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. Monday, September 12, 2011. A Tale of Two Normals. As anyone who has used Revit to model geometry knows it does not really seem to care about "normals", which if youre familiar with most other 3D modeling software you know exactly what Normals are, even in Sketch-Up!
DebunkTheBIM
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
I quite like the look of the BIM addendum of the Consensus301.But the LODs of AIA E202? The more I explore the concept, the less I like it. Fixed and agreed-on LODs are supposed to bring certainty to projects, instead they introduce ambiguities at multiple levels. They seem to be set up based on the assumption that there always is a process of gradual refinement from big picture to small, from bulk down to detail.
Green Building Law Update
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
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Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Randy Deutsch's book, BIM and Integrated Design, is here, published, a physical reality. Kind of like the virtual building in our computer becoming an actual building, from his mind and experiences to the paper form (ebook form too) that we can read. Still no progress on the Vulcan Mind Meld method for us. Here's a cover shot of the book. You can check the following elements: Description Table of Contents Author Information You can download a pdf for: Chapter One Excerpt Table of Contents Index
CAD Shack
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011. Spell Check the Whole project. In 2012 things work great, but in older versions f or what ever reason Revits Spell Check function only checks what is in the current view. To spell check a project, each referenced view must be opened and spell checked. Here is a tip on how you can spell check MOST, if not ALL, of an old Revit project. 1.
DebunkTheBIM
SEPTEMBER 10, 2011
or rarely anything is the way it appears at the first sight. I caught the cat on camera lying by the deck-door and amused myself for a while, after having down-loaded the picture to the laptop.He is stretched out on the floor.or is he lying on a skylight? Maybe stuck to a stripy ceiling covering? Simultaneously to rotating the cat-on-the-mat (digitally) round-and-round, I have been researching software that can convert PDFs to DWGs.
Green Building Law Update
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
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Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
A recent exchange at the RevitForum.org reminded me of this subtlety. The Family Types dialog introduced the concept of locking a parameter. You can select a reference plane and the dimension changes to blue like "normal" when the parameter is un-locked. When it is locked you can edit the dimension value by selecting the dimension, which is counter-intuitive because that's how we create a dimension override in the project environment.
CAD Shack
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011. Revit 2012 Family Standards. Shawn Zirbes is the Chief Technical Officer for Integrated Content Solutions and CAD Technology Center. A few years back he summarized his experience with Revit families in a book that applied to 2010 content. Well, he is back and expanded for 2012. I use the 2010 version as a resource at work and as required reading in my college courses.
DebunkTheBIM
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
In Archicad. No joke. The form came as a jpeg. Typically I’d print it off, hand-write the data, scan it back to the sender. My computer and the one I have the printer-and-scanner on are not directly linked up, I email between the two, sometimes use a pen-drive. I walk from my desk to the other, a couple of times. And worse of all: I have to handwrite the document!
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, September 14, 2011. FSC Architects & Engineers Joins with Leading North American Design Firm. PSMJ serves as exclusive advisor for FSC in the transaction FSC Architects & Engineers, based in the Northern Canada city of Yellowknife, has signed a letter of intent to join North American design firm Stantec.
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Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Prompted by a few questions read at RevitForum.org and AUGI in the past few days I decided to record another short video. I used ducts and the notion of figuring out how much they cost based on a cost/ft scenario. The pricing you'll see in the video and screen captures are quite a bargain so you might want to rush out to buy some duct if you can get a supplier to match them?
Construction Cost Estimating
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Wednesday, September 14, 2011. Some useful methods for construction cost estimation. Cost estimation can be termed as a well-devised forecast of the possible construction cost of a specific building project. A detailed cost estimate presents information to owners, architects, and builders about the facility and the project budget throughout the design phase.
DebunkTheBIM
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Five-or-so years ago I had dealings with a company that claimed the copyright to ‘virtual construction’ within its home-country. They could’ve been just pulling my leg, never checked – either way, it was an interesting concept to contemplate, as by then the activities my own company was pursuing fit nicely within what a ‘virtual contractor’ was supposed to be doing.
PSMJ Resources
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, September 12, 2011. Good Project Management is Good Risk Management. Most risks are foreseeable and responsive to thoughtful project management. • Accept only the right clients, then the right projects. Require a retainer from new clients to be credited to the last invoice. A retainer larger than the maximum anticipated WIP and Aged AR may be appropriate. • Risk reduction by any means is usually superior to any management scheme.
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Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Ron Palma with ideate shared a rather unpleasant customer story the other day via their Solutions Blog. The circumstances seem to me a perfect storm of things that wouldn't normally happen.define normal though. The customer's project is using Worksets The customer reassigned the project and survey point elements to a different Workset (normally assigned to the default Workset1) The customer deleted the Workset they were assigned to Revit permits these elements to be deleted, when otherwise it wo
Construction Cost Estimating
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Tuesday, September 13, 2011. Chilton unveils ChiltonEstimating ideal for professional automotive technicians. Chilton just released ChiltonEstimating, an online tool to create estimates , work orders, and invoices for professional Automotive Technicians. By utilizing ChiltonEstimating the users can avail the current labor times with all content online and with two shop-user logins they can work on multiple job simultaneously.
DebunkTheBIM
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
There is a hard-to-explain high level of delight people get from looking at digital representations of MEP models. No matter how ugly and utilitarian their real-world counterparts are, these still- and moving images are treated like newborn babies with genuine wonder and uninhibited admiration. Why? Not sure! Is the dynamics of the colourful pipes and ducts that does it?
Best Practices Construction Law
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
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Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
If you haven't had a strong enough excuse to make a South Coast Revit User Meeting lately then reconsider. Matt Jezyk with Autodesk is going to to show of Vasari to the attendees on Thursday night (yes tomorrow night). He happens to be in town for a variety of meetings as well as a BUGIE sponsored special learning session on Saturday. Both great opportunities to meet and rub shoulders with a very knowledgeable Revit person, he's a very smart and all around nice guy regardless of Revit too.
Construction Cost Estimating
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Monday, September 12, 2011. Site Work Estimating Sheets facilitate the work of estimator. Site work estimating sheet s are useful for intermediate estimators, real estate developers, general contractors, project managers to develop an accurate site-work construction cost estimate. Site work estimating sheets are utilized for estimating foundation, earthwork construction & stabilization, underground utilities, estimating roadwork and paving
DebunkTheBIM
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
well, he did over the last summer. Entertained dozens of children stuck in the desert city for parts of the long, hot school holiday by suspending ping-pong balls on columns of air, blowing up vinegar based rockets, crashing empty cans of fizzy drinks using cold water. He also created make shift pulleys and kept me worrying for days that someone will get injured through these exciting but sometimes accident-prone experiments.
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