Carol Hagen
MAY 9, 2011
Business Development in construction is successful when approached as a long term strategy. With all the social networks exploding many have suggested that LinkedIn is all you need for Business to Business. What I’ve found is that business development requires networking in person and that many conversations can begin or be nurtured on-line in social media.
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Revit OpEd
MAY 11, 2011
[- The poll is now closed (closed on May 20th), the image below is a screen capture of the poll, not an actual poll, sorry for the confusion it has caused -] We haven't finished the first RTC in the USA yet but we are already considering where the next one should go. The poll you'll see at the top right corner of this blog offers the cities we've been considering.
DebunkTheBIM
MAY 13, 2011
Children play games of blindfold. Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey is one. Disorientating the ‘victim’ is at the core of the game. It could be a mean trick and when adults playing blindfolds it often is. The parallel between being blindfolded/disoriented with what we do when we interpret building design and construction information may not be apparent at first – but does exist.
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Carol Hagen
MAY 10, 2011
Microsoft’s Skype acquisition was overdue. It was January 8, 2011 when I Tweeted: Just thinking Microsoft could have more Kinect sales if you could use it to Skype. #business. With the official announcement , Microsoft has plans to add Skyping to more than the Kinect and xBox but that alone can convert to huge revenues. By the time Christmas rolls around Microsoft will have kids complaining they can’t use their game consoles because their parents are hogging it for video conferencing
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Revit OpEd
MAY 9, 2011
I have a couple clients that have done this with some varying opinions on how successful it was. Pros: Great to have live interaction between trades Issues were much more obvious and forced resolution sooner. Less linked file updating issues Helped minimize copy/monitor and redundant content Cons: Plot day conflicts between trades, arch printing for meetings and MEP trades printing offset and difficult to have teams "stop working" long enough in advance to freeze development of the model so trad
DebunkTheBIM
MAY 12, 2011
Most mornings my husband and I share the car-ride to get to work. We tune in to Abu Dhabi Classic-FM and listen to the early risers’ cryptic clue. Most mornings Graham solves the puzzle within 5 minutes. Driving the fast-lane, in his head. He also knows hundreds of ancient songs, remembers car-plates and phone-numbers from 50 years ago, can multiply multi-digit numbers fast.
PSMJ Resources
MAY 9, 2011
Successful project managers know the value of having an assistant PM on each of their teams. The way it works: for each project, you designate one or more team members to assist with PM tasks. You retain authority and responsibility as project manager, but your assistants ensure completion of the tasks supporting your management decisions. “Assistant project manager” is not an official team position.
CAD Shack
MAY 12, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011. Autodesk Labs Plugin of the Month. If you are not checking out AutoDesk Labs site from time to time, you are missing out on some very interesting developments. I find myself a month behind, but look what I found archived for April. " ASHRAE Viewer for Revit MEP Revit MEP utilizes the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Duct Fitting Database to lookup coefficients for determining pressure losses through duct fittings.
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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.
Revit OpEd
MAY 7, 2011
Could be the name of a new BIM product? Years ago (1981) a band called Masters of Reality got started in Syracuse, NY. I didn't work for them but I had a few friends and fellow roadies in common with them. I saw them once or twice live in a club called The Lost Horizon, a somewhat legendary venue there. An amazing number of bands played on their way up the charts and back down.
DebunkTheBIM
MAY 11, 2011
Name an industry where the back-of-house (BOH) gets more attention and is flasher than the front-of-house (FOH)! BIM part of AEC comes to mind!* Design normally happens behind ‘closed doors’, even if regular client/consultant meetings are held. In fact, not just behind doors but often in sealed (CAD) boxes, the information accessible to selected few – and sometimes not the most desirable ones (even in design teams).
Best Practices Construction Law
MAY 10, 2011
Green Building Law Blog
MAY 9, 2011
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Construction Business Owner
MAY 11, 2011
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DebunkTheBIM
MAY 10, 2011
Saying ‘cool’ when you are over forty is not cool. Excellent, first rate is better, sometime ‘perfect’ when the result is really good. I do find the file I’m about to upload pretty cool, even excellent! It is an interactive, 3D PDF file, download it, play with it! You may think while you are reading this, that I am taking a bit of a break from serious subjects by playing with this file – trust me, there is substance here.
Revit OpEd
MAY 10, 2011
Quick one tonight. The opening element in window families is designed to offer either transparent or opaque behavior when seen in elevation/section views. Normally we like to "see" through glass in 3D views so we can see inside the building. In elevation/section views however seeing the "innards" of the building might be really confusing to the reader.
DebunkTheBIM
MAY 9, 2011
The Underdefined and the Welldefined are two gizmos, the foundation of an ‘optimum’ building design-modelling toolset. Not to be confused with the ‘ideal’ (utopistic, press-of-a-button) one, this solution could be the reality of BIM now, even though it may not exist. To put it simply, this solution based on gizmos could (and should) be available off-the-shelf at present.
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DebunkTheBIM
MAY 8, 2011
Enabling meaningful access to model data outside of native CAD platforms has been neglected by software developers and data originators for a long time. The issue regarded with a bit of a mixture of arrogance and ignorance has been giving building owners the message – “we’ll let you know what you need to know”; The pain is further rubbed in by lumping all building owners (and other none-modellers) into one big group of model viewers who’s primarily need could only be walking virtually through di
DebunkTheBIM
MAY 7, 2011
I’ve never owned a cool car. Apart from the little black Mini (born 1980) but she was prone to breaking down hence quite a liability. Incidentally, she was the only one we named, the ‘shopping trolley’ and ‘soap-dish’ we had since do not count. So, my interest in cars has been largely practical – take me from A to B, don’t demand too much fuel and be easy to park.
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