Construction Marketing

JULY 13, 2011

Free Grading Service Now Available! A new marketing grading service is available that measures company or brand marketing performance on a 4.0 grade point average scale similar to education, and then issues a Marketing Report Card. The free Construction Marketing GPA™/Marketing Report Card™ service grades five (5) categories including: brand execution, marketing programs, Internet marketing, social media integration, and marketing results measurement.

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Constructonomics

JULY 15, 2011

This post was written by SPANCO, an industry leader in overhead cranes since 1979. You can find a variety of products on their website including jib cranes, gantry cranes, or an electric hoist. Moving heavy loads around a work environment demands careful attention to safety. Accidents can take a hefty toll in life, limb, and material damages. A fundamental knowledge of inspection, maintenance, and operating procedures can make the difference been smooth operation and a tragic mishap.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 15, 2011

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Revit OpEd

JULY 12, 2011

Via a Tweet today HLJacobs posted a video at You Tube demonstrating a patterning tool. Looks interesting! I suspect that HLJacobs is none other than Hiroshi, founder of RevitCity. Could be a coincidence?

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Construction Law Monitor

JULY 15, 2011

Thanks to my friend Chris Hill and his Construction Law Musings for allowing me to publish a guest post on this blog this morning survey the nation’s changing immigration laws. The post titled “ The Landscape of US Immigration Laws and How It Affects The Construction Industry ,” reviews the states that have and are considering immigration law reform, and discusses how these new laws can possible effect your construction business.

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Construction Dive

JULY 13, 2011

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Revit OpEd

JULY 14, 2011

There are two kind of messages that Revit shows you regarding how walls, floors and roofs interact. The first kind (Attach) occurs when the geometry of a wall touches a floor or passes through the floor. If you edit the sketch of a floor, when you finish the sketch Revit asks you if you'd like to attach this wall (or any other walls that intersect too) to the underside of the floor.

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Construction Law Monitor

JULY 12, 2011

The Wolfe Law Group, LLC (WLG), has two attorneys ( Scott G. Wolfe, Jr., and Seth J. Smiley ) that are barred in the state of California. As a California attorney, I want to share some of the excellent resources available to contractors through the licensing board. California has over 300,000 licensed contractors, all of which had to be licensed through the state licensing board.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 14, 2011

A well informed subject expert asked at a gathering recently: “How many results would Google spit out if you searched for BIM?” Various, similarly well informed subject-specialists guessed within the range of 5-15 million; Following a ‘pregnant pause’ the instigator revealed the answer he was expecting: 34 million; 34 million. Was I biting my tongue and sitting on my hands?

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Green Home Design Architect

JULY 15, 2011

On June 25, 2011, teams of community members and local businesses met at R.P. Johnson & Son's Andover NH location to kick off a day of giving back, We Build It Forward. Ten projects in seven communities in the Andover – Sunapee area were completed in a day, including fundraisers and yard cleanups, fixing park shelters and painting an entire house.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 15, 2011

Interesting thing is happening to a friend and his firm as they collaborate with an engineering firm based in China. Language is an obvious issue for project meetings and documentation. At a little deeper level how about between applications. Let's say using Navisworks and exports from Revit. There is no translate option during export! Seems to me the "solution" to sharing this is to use a common language for the modelling/software/documentation.

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Do

JULY 11, 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, July 11, 2011. Misc. Summer Post. (RTC, SP, AU). Three topics in one post today (though that wont help my post count!). First up, as youve probably already read on other blogs RTC USA was just awesome!! The vibe was great, I learned a few things and it was great to share and network in such an intimate setting.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 11, 2011

I wrote a slightly silly post a couple of days ago, describing the case of the devoted nonBIM-er. It displeased quite a number of people out in the BIM world – somehow this subject is reaching the stage of total PC-ness, no self-mockery or cynical contemplation is welcome. Sorry, can’t help it. BIM has so far almost totally refused to act predictably or even rationally on small or large scale, so it only fits ‘the patient’ to employ a somewhat erratic strategy to deal with it.

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Construction Cost Estimating

JULY 14, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Friday, July 15, 2011. Sage include a new SQL Server database to its Sage Timberline Estimating software. Sage North America, a part of The Sage Group plc and a leading provider of business management software and services, just released a new estimating solution to aid contractors to win more jobs and maximize Profit.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 13, 2011

I was approached by Mike Shell recently. Since he is interested in developing a software application intended to support viewing Revit models via a 3D PDF Converter his need is a bit broader than just my opinion. He needs interest from bigger organizations than mine. He is seeking statements from firms that support his business plan. Here's one of two sample letters he provided: To Mr.

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The Korte Company

JULY 12, 2011

Background of LEED LEED is an acronym that stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is the standard for Green Building design around the world. Originally developed in 1998 in the United States by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED has been included in over 14,000 projects (as of the end of the 2010) in 30 countries.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 10, 2011

Are you old enough to remember real-pen plotters? They had a captive audience in me, mesmerizing the way they ran their pens seemingly-randomly over large pages of paper for long bits of time to end up with meaningful plots, often on tracing paper. They were big, capricious, noisy beasts no one liked sitting close to, consequently not many shed-a-tear when the last of them left the office to be replaced by a large scale printer.

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Construction Cost Estimating

JULY 15, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Friday, July 15, 2011. INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATING INDICES. The construction industry is one of the driving areas in the economy that provides a noteworthy contribution to GDP and a serious effect on the activity in other industries. The construction industries frequently experiencing their cost variations best stand for the inflationary/deflationary changes of a specific sector of Construction Industry.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 12, 2011

I regularly read the Southern Arizona Revit User Group's blog. A recent post poked me in the eye and I thought I'd respond to it here. Here's the bit that poked me: snip 1. Make sure no one EVER edits a Central file directly, once local files have been created. If you do, you will need to recreate all the local files from the new Central file.snip It's good advice, don't work in a central file.

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The Korte Company

JULY 12, 2011

Developed by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the Architect Registration Examination (ARE) is the only exam by which architecture candidates can become registered professionals in the United States or Canada. While there are 7 divisions of the exam, the Structural Systems is the one that stands out from all others. Not only does this exam assess architecture candidates with the most questions (a total of 125), but also the exam has the highest technical level ou

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 9, 2011

Martha Stewart visited recently. The country I live in, not me, though I am personally grateful for all the interviews she’s entertained my husband for days (indirectly, of course via the printed publications we are lucky to receive daily); The homemaking Queen’s call triggered my renewed interest in domesticity but also hospitality in general. I’d written a number of posts on the need to run the AEC more like the hospitality industry before and was challenged on the idea by some; Nevertheless,

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Construction Cost Estimating

JULY 13, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. adsense analytic. Wednesday, July 13, 2011. BIM authorizing estimating software can enhance the estimating process to a great extent. Building Information Modeling (BIM) generates a complete digital model of the building that can produce exact bill of material and cost estimate along with coordinated drawings and details.

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Revit OpEd

JULY 11, 2011

Marcello recently presented classes at the Revit Technology Conference in Huntington Beach, CA. In his spare time he's done some pretty amazing modelling with Revit, such as an elephant, a cow, a telehandler and others. He posted his elephant on You Tube awhile ago. He's decided to start blogging and calls his blog: Simply Complex. I encourage you to check it out and to encourage him to keep posting!

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The Korte Company

JULY 12, 2011

Correct Project Cost Estimation through Digital Contract Management The dream of any design firm is to successfully grow by having a large portfolio of clients. This means that principals are mostly bringing business to headquarters and the production team is busy managing the different projects. However, design firms often overlook the complete scope of the quote-to-cash cycle, also known as contract management.

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Stok

JULY 10, 2011

On June 8th our team participated at the Greener Builder 2011 Conference, at the South SF Conference Center. Environmental Building Strategies is now very well known in San Francisco and the Bay Area. And we are working to only strengthen this trend as well as to go further. We want to promote ourselves all over [.].

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Green Building Law Blog

JULY 14, 2011

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Revit OpEd

JULY 12, 2011

When I mentioned the availability of the new update the other day there wasn't the usual "list of stuff we fixed" to go along with it. I can sympathize, it takes a lot of effort to compile that stuff. As a contributing author, blogger etc. it takes time to put things together. I think Mark Twain is credited (although variations are attributed to a good many others) with saying, "If I had more time I'd have written a shorter letter".

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The Korte Company

JULY 12, 2011

Many people complain that famous old buildings are being destroyed, resulting in the loss of many historical landmarks. While critics may argue that such development strategies are critical to stimulating new cultural and metropolitan growth, there are 2 main reasons why the demolition of such buildings generates a major loss of beloved historical markers.

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