Construction Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A webcast entitled LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter Best Practices for Construction Markets is scheduled for Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 12 pm CST. The webcast is free to both members and non-members. Construction Marketing Association (CMA) Social Media Manager Brian Reuhl and CMA Chairman Neil M. Brown share tips and tricks, new business-friendly features and real construction market examples for these important new media platforms.

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Green Building Law Update

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FEBRUARY 8, 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. Tuesday, February 08, 2011. I Love BIM. Kiddos attempt to convince me she can go to work with me: Posted by. alleycatbabe. at 1:34 PM. Labels: BIM. Reactions: 1 comment: Dave Baldacchino. said. LOL!! What should one expect when both your parents are Revit fanatics?

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

‘Don’t link your arguments to software packages, they weaken them’ – warn me people responding to my posts (they mean the arguments, not the packages, I guess); While a software-neutral position may be more comfortable to comment from, I am not keen to go there for two reasons: 1/ Very few BIM experts out there are truly unbiased to software, even those that are in academia and remote from practice often wear ‘software tinted glasses’.

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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

It's been a long day, driving down to San Diego attending the first day of the forum and then driving back home! So I'll just mention three things for now. Scenario Virtual Project Delivery - If you haven't seen this at all yet, check it out. Dupont Design Studio - I heard about this, maybe a year ago? It was discussed today along with three others I'll get to in another post when I have more time.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

asked me someone recently. You’ll be pleased to know, I managed to look mildly intelligent and not say “What?”. for days afterwards, I kept musing over the sad fact, that I ended up in a field, where one blinks and a whole new ‘delivery strategy’ emerges. Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) is outsourcing, where knowledge-related work is carried out by workers in a different company (and often country) to save cost.

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Constructor Marketing that Works

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

'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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Construction Law Monitor

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Earlier this month President Obama unveiled an initiative to make buildings more energy efficient in America. The Wall Street Journal simply summarized the President’s goals and rationale with the following: [The program will provide] tax breaks and other proposal aimed at getting commerical-building owners to retrofit their structures to be more energy efficient, an initiate [the President] hopes to fund with higher taxes on oil and gas companies.

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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.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

If you are working on a hotel project in Dubuque, Iowa: "Any Hotel in the city limits must have a water bucket and hitching post in front of the building." In Mount Vernon, Iowa: "One must obtain written permission from the City Council before throwing bricks into a highway." Nogales, Arizona: "An ordinance prohibits the wearing of suspenders." In Fort Madison, Iowa: "The fire department is required to practice fire fighting for fifteen minutes before attending a fire.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I observed a phenomena: over the years the number of users of 3D (model) based software in AEC has raised dramatically while their average skill level dropped tragically. I state with conviction that the people I worked with in the late eighties and early nineties who operated early CAD packages (including DOS based AutoCAD) used the tools to better effect than the ones nowadays sitting in front of hispec-gaming machines armed with smart software.

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PSMJ Resources

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Delegating is quickly becoming one of those overused management buzz words that PMs are tired of hearing. Why? For too long, principals have “dumped” on PMs in the name of delegation. PMs end up doing all the things that the principals don’t like to do. And, don’t stop there. Ask those under the PMs about how they feel about delegation. Same answer.

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Construction Law Monitor

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The new legislative session has begun in Washington, and a number of bills affecting the construction industry have been introduced. We wrote a full blog post on one of the more interesting bills introduced to address the controversial Williams v. Athletic Field construction lien case. Here is a summary of some of the other pending legislation: House Bill 1531 (Adjusting the minimum wage rate based on changes in consumer pricing).

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you can't attend the BIM Forum in San Diego this week maybe the event that Rand/IMAGINiT Technologies is hosting on February 17th can help you not dwell on that? Free, Full-Day Online Event Offers User and Manager Tracks for Architecture, Engineering and Facilities Management Professionals ( Available for free to anyone in North America ) BIM 360 is a virtual conference.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Over the years, I’ve become a con artist. Not a cheat that deceives people to secure an unfair advantage. The trickery I’ve used in my business cost us enormous amounts of backstage work so we could create the impression of things not (yet) possible: See the linked example: (DO download it – magical!) This is a graphical representation of a basic BOM; Orbit the model, identify a particular element (bracket) by name, find how many there are in the project and where; Do this once using the table,

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PSMJ Resources

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

29 transactions booked for January; includes GPD Group’s recent acquisition of Jester Jones Schifer Architects which was initiated by PSMJ With a new year comes new energy and, as such, January is often one of the busier months of the year for M&A announcements. However, according to data from the A/E M&A consultants at PSMJ Resources, Inc., 29 transactions were announced last month and that could be a positive indication of what is to come in 2011.

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CAD Shack

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Tuesday, February 08, 2011. Owning Elements when Worksharing. When worksharing is enabled, items will sometime get placed in the wrong workset or you may notice that something in a section view needs to be moved. When you go to make changes the element may not play ball because it is protected by the workset it is in that you dont currently have ownership of.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Rod Howarth posted a free Add-in that will pop up a dialog and put a flashing icon on your taskbar when your Synchronize with Central finishes. For more details and how to download/install it I'll let you read all about it on his blog. Keep in mind that if you have Worksharing Monitor installed you can tell it to tell you that it knows that you want to know that your Sync with Central is done too.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Love to interrogate piles of messy construction plans? Fancy yourself as a Forensic BIMologist? Your time is coming! Forensic BIMologists (FB) employ systematic and thorough inquiry to find information and ascertain facts related to construction project INFORMATION. They apply BIM approach to questions which are of interest to the legal system but also to maintain a digital, modelbased ‘mirror’ against contractual drawings to report the STATUS of the information; Don’t confuse investigative BIM

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Green Building Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Posted tonight at You Tube.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

You decide to commission someone to write a book. A novel, a biography, gardening book. There are 5 stages to the process: 1. Collecting ideas 2. Drafting, clarifying; 3. Revising, defining, detailing; 4. Editing, proofreading; 5. Publishing The process unfolds as expected, with ups-and-downs. At the end, you have the book. A bit later than expected, a bit more expensive than expected, nevertheless, a book.

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Green Building Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

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Construction Cost Estimating

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Monday, February 7, 2011. Techniques of Construction Cost Estimate. Construction cost estimating associates evaluating materials, labor, overhead, subcontractors and equipment needed to complete a project. Estimates come in two forms: hard money and cost plus. Hard money approximate is the ultimate cost for a project.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

The POD is a robust computer station, placed on a construction site; Protected in a tough casing, it is lockable, dust and vandal-proof. It has the ability to be charged by multiple power supplies, including the sun. It is all-weatherproof, comes with own booth. It is touch screen operated nonetheless, can have a mouse and keyboard too. It is web enabled, linked to a central database and manages log-ins through fingerprint verification.

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Construction Cost Estimating

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Saturday, February 5, 2011. Candy - A unique software for construction estimating. Candy is a comprehensive, integrated software suite designed by construction professionals being extensively utilized by big multinational consortiums and small contractors over 40 countries for estimating , planning, modeling, managing and controlling construction projects.

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