HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Fast-casual restaurants like Noodles & Company should be a bright spot for commercial construction in 2011. It’s that time of year again, when I dust off the crystal ball to predict commercial construction trends for the following year. If you didn’t read last year’s post on “ Commercial Construction Trends 2010 ,” you should know these predictions are based on the new commercial construction projects Englewood Construction has heard are in the pipeline for 2011 across the country, as well a

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Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2010

A webcast panel discussion entitled Lead Generation Best Practices for Construction is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The webcast is scheduled for Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 12 pm CST. The webcast will identify a broad range of lead information sources, and share some practical aspects of managing lead generation programs.

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Carol Hagen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Update September 27, 2010: Project Manager views Job Alerts on iPad using Corecon Mobile. Update: Project Manager uses iPhone to access construction documentation. Construction Project Managers main line of communication is their mobile device. Whether it’s texts, emails or phone calls your smartphone has become the primary tool of the trade. What’s missing?

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Constructonomics

AUGUST 30, 2010

I honestly don’t have the patience to read any more economic doom and gloom about this country or worse yet, the construction industry. I read some article about how construction spending is down 7.9% from this time last year. And last year, there was more construction going on by five year olds on their first trip to the beach than by heavy machinery.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 29, 2010

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MAY 15, 2010

After submitting over 1,000 proposals to public and private clients, I’ve grown attached to some proposal practices that I believe make for overall better proposals and help alleviate proposal-related stress. Here they are: Dummy Book. As we are making a proposal, we put together what’s known as a dummy book. This is just a manilla folder that contains the latest and greatest pieces of the proposal.

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Construction Law Monitor

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The LEED Certification process can be quite complex. It takes months after a project’s completion to get the paperwork process, the paperwork itself can be a heafty stack, and that’s not even taking into account the complicated points framework, the certification gray-areas, the de-certification process and more… (Want a good discussion of all these frustrating and unanswered questions?

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SAB Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Artistic originality is rarely mentioned in the context of sustainable architecture and construction. For example, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid-like buildings have not found a place in this magazine. In fact, when architects of this avant-garde ilk claim how their buildings do deploy environmentally-responsible features, their claims have seemed to lack credibility or at best sound like secondary rationales.

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Natural Building

JULY 25, 2010

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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Green Home Design Architect

JANUARY 11, 2010

One of the experts we recommend to our clients who are building a new home and need help selecting appropriate light fixtures for their home is Ellen Winkler, CEO and principal of Ellen’s Interiors on Main Street in New London, New Hampshire. Her 3000 square foot showroom features a lighting display, fine furnishings, kitchen & bath fixtures, granite & tile displays, area rugs, carpet samples, decorative accessories, and wall art.

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

In my last blog post, I hinted we had big news to reveal. So it is with great pride that I announce the completion of our most successful Chicago design build office construction job to date – the new headquarters of Englewood Construction! After renting the same space in Schiller Park for 12 years, we decided to buy a vacated grocery store in downtown Lemont, Ill. for what we considered the ultimate office tenant renovation project.

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Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2010

We identified a lack of information on this important topic, so this blog will cover the complete landscape of construction lead sources and types. From traditional, to internet and social media leads. To the construction lead powerhouses – Dodge Reports and Reed Construction Data. We’ll identify other national construction lead services, regional lead services, (local) contractor/remodeler lead services, government lead services, and finally other lead services including equipment lease a

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Carol Hagen

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today we’d like to welcome a Guest Post from James Benham , president of SmartBidNet and JBKnowledge who has graciously contributed his time and expertise to share this article with our readership. I met James in Phoenix last year when he was the speaker for a construction association dinner meeting and we have been friends (and admirers of each other) ever since.

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Constructonomics

MAY 29, 2010

I’m sure there are many youngsters that just received a diploma this month with a concentration in construction management. Now they are boggled in debt and left with no income on which to live. So of course the simple solution to that is to get a job. Well, unfortunately we are in perhaps the worst construction market that our country has ever seen.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

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Construction Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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APRIL 20, 2010

. . One of the major challenges Marketer’s often complain about is working with the technical staff and getting them to see marketing in a better light. I was made aware of this issue when interviewing for my current position. One of the Principal’s first questions to me was, “The marketing and technical groups often have a combative relationship.

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Construction Law Monitor

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Sometimes the best blog posts and legal articles are the simplest. Take, for example, a post from early October by Joshua Glazov on his Construction Law Today blog , where he simply cites a 1941 quote from US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson : The legal profession, like many another, tends to become over-professionalized. We forget that the law is the rule for simple and untaught people to live by.

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SAB Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Situated in Toronto’s Forest Hill, an old established neighbourhood of imposing, yet reserved residential architecture, the Cascade House disarms, with its bold rectangular forms and its striking material palette of green glass and dark slate.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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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Green Home Design Architect

MAY 28, 2010

Custom Open House with Q&A with Green Building Experts near Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire Saturday, July 10, 2010 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM The Dartmouth - Lake Sunapee region in New Hampshire is a great four-season resort area to live, work, and raise a family! Whether you like swimming or skiing, hiking or biking, or any other outdoor hobby, you can find it here.

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HardHatChat

JUNE 7, 2010

Commercial construction preventive maintenance. If there’s one thing everyone involved in the BP Deepwater Horizon rig explosion can agree on, it’s that it could have been prevented. Granted the explosion and resulting oil spill is a worst case scenario, but it begs the question: Do you have the appropriate commercial construction preventive maintenance checklist in place?

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Construction Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The recent survey of construction marketers ranked measuring results of marketing as their top priority for 2011 , beating out all priorities including internet and social media. Clearly in a difficult market, marketing is under increased scrutiny to prove results and justify budgets. The Construction Marketing Association will present a free webcast addressing this important topic on Monday, November 15 at 12 pm CST.

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Carol Hagen

JANUARY 18, 2010

The construction industry is known as a technology laggard, but not all construction companies take a wait and see approach. In the social media realm, many contracting firms have decided to get involved early, primarily being driven by the business development and marketing folks. They want to use LinkedIn to further develop their contact base and find prospects hiding in the contacts of their associates.

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Constructonomics

MARCH 3, 2010

Over the past six months, I have had the wonderful privilege (ahem) of bidding about 15 public Requests for Proposals. While I have complained constantly about the process, I probably wouldn’t have any work at all at the moment if they were not available. As a brand new company there are very few private owners that would take a chance on an untested and unproven no-name.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 8, 2010

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Construction Dive

JUNE 7, 2010

Thurloat. Adam Thurlow. Home. Archives. About. Google Storage for Developers on App Engine Python. Jun. 07, 2010 - Posted by Thurloat. Ive been using Google Storage. since I/O 2010, and Im impressed with it so far. At work , weve converted some of our application resources from using S3 as a CDN to Google Storage this past week. Being early adopters has its downfalls for sure; some of which usually include system instability, a lack of published tools, and proper or extensive documentation.

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Help Everybody Everyday

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

. Conferences, let’s talk about them. They are expensive, but many people swear by them. They explain that it’s a great opportunity to meet potential clients from all over the country. Much more cost effective then flying out to meet with each of those people. I’ve been to two conferences in the last couple months. One resulted in a contract and the other resulted in a tremendous publicity opportunity for my firm.

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