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Call for Entries: Construction Marketing STAR™ Awards and Construction Marketer of the Year Award

Construction Marketing

The annual Construction Marketing STAR™ Awards and the new Construction Marketer of the Year™ Award honor marketing excellence of construction industry professionals. The awards are sponsored by the Construction Marketing Association with early entry deadline of September 2, 2011. The Construction Marketing STAR™ Awards recognize the best marketing across fourteen categories including advertising, Internet, packaging, trade shows and more.

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Obtaining the Proper Bonding for Government Jobs

Construction Business Owner

HOME |. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. LAW |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. FLEET |. SAFETY |. GREEN. Topics. General Management. Software & Technology. Accounting & Finance. Insurance. Construction Law. People Management. Green Building. Construction Safety. Compliance/Regulations. Sales/Marketing. Security. Equipment Management.

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Why the D.C. Green Building Act is Fundamentally Flawed and a Solution

Green Building Law Update

I can’t believe it has come to this. We are just over four months away from January 1, 2012. On that date, the D.C. Green Building Act of 2006 requires that all new construction of non-residential buildings greater than 50,000 square feet be LEED certified. While there are many technical problems with the Green Buildling Act, the very premise of the law is fundamentally flawed.

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Julian Construction Offers Stucco and Drywall Repair For Homes.

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. « Public Speak About Their Success With Construction Company | Main. | Preparing your Family & Home for an Earthquake » 08/19/2011.

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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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Curtain Wall Panel - Edit in Place

Revit OpEd

You can edit a system panel in place. Yes that means you can select a curtain wall's system panel like Glass or Solid and then Edit-in-Place. Do you have a quirky design situation somewhere on your curtain wall and want to just make the change right there without creating a new panel family and loading and swapping? You can! Select the panel (unpin if defined by the CW type).

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Breaking: Lawsuit Against USGBC Dismissed

Green Building Law Update

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed Henry Gifford's lawsuit (PDF) against the US Green Building Council. Gifford originally filed a class action lawsuit for $100 million dollars based on the alleged false advertising by the USGBC. The lawsuit was later amended to only cover four plaintiffs but the allegations remained the same -- the USGBC was falsely claiming that LEED certified buildings were energy efficient.

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Proposal Basics from the Buyer’s Perspective

Help Everybody Everyday

I recently had the opportunity to review proposals and conduct interviews with firms. During this process, a few proposal and interview basics came to mind. And while I’m often the proposer, it’s nice to be able to talk from the buyer’s perspective. So here are my suggestions from a buyer’s perspective. If the guy who can answer the questions is not available, reschedule.

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Introducing Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Shipping

Revit OpEd

I worked with Patrick Davis, Martin Tauer, Charlie Busa and Angela MacDonnell on the update to the previous book. I've been told the "my" copy has been shipped which usually means that it is available for shipping to everyone. It wasn't just a replace 2011 with 2012 exercise. Each chapter got looked at with fresh editor eyes which in some cases generated some fairly substantial rework/freshening.

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A man on a bike.

DebunkTheBIM

I skim over the library of my new Archicad. A toilet-roll-dispenser, a new man on a bike. And a woman too, both vehicles gender appropriate. Still, another year gone by, another version developed and another lost opportunity to do something with the libraries. Surely someone, somewhere in the past had made a conscious decision not to play in the hands of manufacturers and suppliers of building materials and products and consequently the developers keep refusing to open up the product to accommod

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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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Breaking: Lawsuit Against USGBC Dismissed : Green Building Law.

Green Building Law Update

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Can A Better Proposal Process Guarantee You a Win?

Help Everybody Everyday

. Laura Ricci of 1Ricci has a proposal process that she says will give you wins. Honestly, it is more complicated than any process that I have ever used (and I’ve submitted and won multi-million dollar proposals). You can see part of the process above. Laura claims to have unlocked the magic behind winning proposals: Well, the fact is that winning proposals isn’t magic at all.

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Demo Is Not a Phase

Revit OpEd

At least in Revit's "world". This is a common point of confusion when people start using Revit phasing tools, real versus virtual, Revit's "reality" versus real "reality". Demo is not a phase in "Revit land". It's a phase in "People land" because people do demolition things before some other construction things. Revit however considers demolition to occur during the new work.

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Snake oil or a new skin?

DebunkTheBIM

Snakes shed their skins regularly to allow for growth and get rid of parasites. Pictures of these creatures shedding their envelope come often to mind when I see standard BIM model evaluation diagrams presented, showing how a design model will turn into a construction and then FM model. I value the illustrator’s point behind the concept. Any BIM struggles with similar issues as the snakes, however I think it should do better than emulate these vertebrae shedding their entire covers on a periodic

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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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Why the D.C. Green Building Act is Fundamentally Flawed and a.

Green Building Law Update

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Time To Rethink Your Corporate Website?

Help Everybody Everyday

. Mel Lester recently posed the question, “Is it time to rethink your website?” Mel’s post brought up some interesting points, but may have missed others. Let’s look at Mel’s key points. Compare Your Site to the Competition. Mel says: So how much of an asset is your website in helping clients choose your firm? One way to assess this is to compare your site to that of your primary competitors.

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Dept. of Subtle - Load Type Properties - Linear Force Scale

Revit OpEd

The Autodesk Wikihelp says that this is for graphic display only yet the Type Properties dialog offers a value to change using a structural unit instead of integer or number data type. It does affect the height of the annotation as suggested by help but the value you enter seems a little odd? From Wikihelp: snip Force Scale The display size parameter; this value visually changes the display of the force symbol.

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BIM ~ DOF

DebunkTheBIM

Found myself in a parallel universe a couple of days ago while flicking through a magazine. Turns out that the Oil and Gas Industry has its own BIM, accompanied with struggles and challenges a bit like ours. Except they call their BIM DOF. Digital Oil Fields! Will spare you from lifting the entire article (written as a report of the IDOC 2011 Abu Dhabi conference held earlier this year).

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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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CAD Shack: Speed Up Cropping

CAD Shack

Monday, August 15, 2011. Speed Up Cropping. Anyone who has ever cropped a view in Revit has gotten used to the "rolling doughnut" in Windows 7, or the hourglass, or what ever tells you that your computer is thinking about the crop region. One side at a time the crop regions need to be adjusted, and it doesnt matter if it is a big or small adjustment, each move starts the doughnut rolling again.

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Other Considerations When Rethinking Your Website

Help Everybody Everyday

To follow up from my last post, here are some additional things you should rethink about your website. Findability. If you are an architect in Cleveland and a google search for “Cleveland architects” doesn’t bring up your site, that’s a problem. Your website, above all else, needs to be findable. While Google’s ever changing algorithms make it impossible to game the results permanently, there are simple things you can do to make your site more findable.

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Revisions on Sheet Dialog

Revit OpEd

This dialog lets you have some additional control over the visibility of Revisions in the Revision list on a sheet (assuming your title block family uses a Revit revision list). If you hide a revision cloud in a view using the right-click option "Hide in View > by Element" you'll find that the revision is also removed from the listed revision on the title block.

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Oh, the meditative benefits that building a site can bring.

DebunkTheBIM

to a stressed out, forever scheming, calculating, strategising, high-flying (or pretending to be) BIM professional. I create a new file and am instantly lost in the familiarity of the vast expanse of the light-grey-grid, uncontaminated by the flaws of the yet-to-be modelled project, the blunders and imperfections soon to be introduced and cultivated through the life of the file extending these to the real site.

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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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Three Reasons to Use an Architect

Green Home Design Architect

Thinking of building or remodeling? Consider using an architect. Why? Reason #1: Architects save money. An architect's services are a wise investment because a well-conceived and designed project can be built more efficiently and economically. As ideas evolve, changes can be made on a computer screen or paper much less expensively than when construction is under way.

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How To End Conversations With Potential Clients

Help Everybody Everyday

I hate when people end conversations with potential clients like this: “Here’s my card. If you need anything, I would be happy to help.” Why is that bad? First, you are basically saying that you are available for them to hire. So, it’s about you. Second, you’ve given them absolutely no reason to call you. “If you need anything,” is very vague.

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PSMJ Resources Blog: 6 Keys to Separate Yourself from the Pack

PSMJ Resources

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, August 15, 2011. 6 Keys to Separate Yourself from the Pack. 1. Develop your leadership skills. Read, study, and apply yourself to developing as a leader. Some professionals are born leaders. Others are made during the course of battle. You can learn and develop many of the traits of a leader. 2. Become a strategic thinker.

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Let the best one win.

DebunkTheBIM

Scott Graham (LEED AP BD+C) said on a forum I’ve been following (see link): “.R’s comparison offers some vindication for those few of us that feel market saturation doesn’t always equate to superior quality.” Those two BIM packages have been compared many times before. My response: Hungarian is the most beautiful language in the World! It can describe feelings you never knew you had, and do it in five significantly different ways.

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Discover 7 Ways to Cut Construction Inefficiencies

Construction sites are often just-barely-controlled chaos. Without clear coordination, you risk everything from clashes to delays, cancellations, and missed deadlines. Get the free eBook & learn how to solve the biggest challenges in construction!

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Army National Guard Comes Home to Norman

The Korte Company

A nice video recapping a terrific homecoming in a Korte-built building. To the troops, thanks for serving. To our team in Norman, thanks for building smart. Read more. Read about the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Norman, Oklahoma here.

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HEE Mentioned in ENR’s Newsletter

Help Everybody Everyday

. It’s nice when this site gets a link from one of the industry blog sites out there. But to get a nod from Engineering News Record: Well, that’s just something special! The August 9th edition of ENR’s email newsletter recommended my article on why productivity is a key marketing topic. Thank you very much ENR! A special shout out goes to Tim Hughes (who runs a site on construction law in Virginia for pointing it out to me).

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Carbon Footprint - A brief overview

Construction Cost Estimating

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Wednesday, August 17, 2011. Carbon Footprint - A brief overview. A carbon footprint is the total assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced through transport, land clearance, the production and consumption of food, burning of fossil fuels, like natural gas, crude oil and coal, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, and services.