Construction Marketing

JULY 1, 2011

A webcast entitled New Product Development and Launch Best Practices for Construction is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 1 pm CST. With stratospheric new product development costs, and new product failure rates in excess of 90%, product development and launch systems and processes must be carefully evaluated and more effectively implemented.

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HardHatChat

JANUARY 18, 2011

Bill Di Santo (right) overseeing a design-build project for Englewood Construction. Working with design-build GCs is a good resolution for 2011. January is a great time to create a commercial construction checklist of resolutions to help improve your commercial real estate business in the coming year. I’m sure some of you don’t have the time to draft a list of resolutions, so I’ve done it for you – you can thank me later.

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The Constructor

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

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Constructonomics

AUGUST 1, 2011

Remember the days when it was a big deal to go to Las Vegas or Atlantic City and throw a few bucks down on black or red and possibly pull a few slots? It was fun to make a trip of it. Yeah, you would lose a lot of money more often than not, but usually you didn’t gamble away your house or first born prior to leaving. Now it seems like there’s a casino in every town in the country with Philadelphia being the largest major city to have one.

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Construction Business Owner

DECEMBER 6, 2011

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 5, 2011

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Chianelli Estimating

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Does the owner benefit from the lowest bid? Not always. . Scenario: A company needs to expand it’s facility. Their accounting department has established a project budget that can not be exceeded and, if adhered to, the project is feasible. The committee agreed that minimizing design and consultant fees would leave more for constructing the building.

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Julian Construction

APRIL 1, 2011

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. « JulianConstruction.com: Earthquakes on the Rise--Is Los Angeles Next? | Main. | Julian Construction Offers Retaining Wall Design and Building Service » 04/01/2011.

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SAB Magazine

APRIL 19, 2011

This modest 2,000sf house is located on Bowen Island, which lies at the mouth of Howe Sound, a 20-minute ferry ride from West Vancouver. The site is in a west-facing rural lot framed by a ridge of exposed granite to the north, and forest to the south and east. Due to the western exposure and bowl-like topography, the site has a distinct microclimate and can easily reach temperatures of 30oC on sunny days from early May through late September.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2011

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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Construction Marketing

APRIL 7, 2011

The Construction Marketing Association, announces its newest offering to association members—a Web-based career center that connects job seekers with prospective employers in the construction industry. The new job board, powered by career services leader JobTarget, can be found at www.constructionmarketingassociation.org. Access is available to CMA members and nonmembers alike.

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HardHatChat

JANUARY 27, 2011

Franchise restaurants are the rise, like this new Mrs. Fields that Englewood Construction built in Orland Park Mall. As suggested in my 2011 commercial construction trends blog post, there seems to be a rise in new restaurant construction, particularly among franchise restaurants. In fact, Crain’s Chicago Business just reported that Moe’s Southwest Grill has sold restaurant franchise agreements to open 10 new units in the Chicago market.

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The Constructor

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

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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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CAD Shack

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Sunday, December 25, 2011. Overriding Dimensions in Revit. Say you are putting together a detail that has a dimension in it but for it to look appropriate, things really wont be to scale. What I am getting at, is that you want to put down a dimension that is wrong. Revit wont allow you to override it using the feet and inches symbols from your keyboard.

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Carol Hagen

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Email can be a contractor’s best friend or worst enemy. Construction personnel communicate frequently to achieve good project outcomes and this usually involves email and with more mobile devices, text messages. Most project managers I speak to are inundated with large volumes of email that take hours to process daily. Many have taken the time to create rules and put emails in various folders to help them sort through their inbox.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 29, 2011

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Natural Building

APRIL 4, 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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Julian Construction

JULY 5, 2011

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. « Julian Construction Services Homeowners With No Middleman | Main. | Julian Construction Offers 50% Off on Foundation Replacement » 07/05/2011.

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SAB Magazine

JULY 4, 2011

ammed earth construction is the process of building with sub soils [not top soils or ‘mud’] and compacting them into a formwork of some kind, until they are as solid as stone. It is very similar to the way in which sedimentary rock is formed in nature. Just as there are many colours of sedimentary rock, so there is a natural variation in the colouring of rammed earth – a variation that can be enhanced by the addition of iron oxide or other natural pigments.

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Revit OpEd

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Content is King! The right content, good content, smart content. How the content is to be judged is subjective, evaluated against personal criteria, as well as objective. It doesn't take a lot of effort to find something to complain about when you use content created by others. It isn't even all that hard to return to our own content a little later and have a different opinion about how well we made it.

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Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This is the second blog in a two part series on Blogging for Construction Marketing. Part 1 covered the benefits of blogging, blog platforms and features. This blog, Part 2, will consider the ongoing management and implementation of the blog, which focuses primarily on content. Other ongoing blog management considerations are building a blogroll and corresponding reciprocal links , updating other resource or content items like case studies , and supporting search engine optimization.

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HardHatChat

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Most of the commercial construction news we discuss in this blog involves new Chicago retail and restaurant construction projects or analyzing commercial construction trends. But every once in a while we have something special to share. I am usually not one to brag, but I am proud to announce The Construction Writers Association (CWA) has awarded Englewood Construction the 2011 Website & Electronic Communications Blog Award for Hard Hat Chat.

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The Constructor

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

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Constructonomics

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

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Construction Law Monitor

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Today there was a big announcement , and very positive news from the front lines of the ever controversial Chinese Drywall Multi-District Litigation (MDL). A global settlement has been agreed to in terms and will be filed with the Federal Court on December 20, 2011. For those of us working every day with Chinese Drywall claimants, not all of the information is a complete surprise, but there are a few new wrinkles which make today’s announcement very appealing.

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Do

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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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

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