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Omaha Standard Palfinger Partners with Reading Truck

Construction Equipment

Omaha Standard Palfinger, a division of Palfinger North America, has entered into a co-branding relationship with Reading Truck Group. The agreement includes a range of Palfinger telescopic crane models ranging in size from 12,500 to 72,000 lb.-ft. in electric and hydraulic configurations.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with Westinghouse Electric Company. The winner of the new Achievement in Public-Private Partnership Award has set the standard for best practices in this dominant new economic development model.

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CAD Shack: Revit - Rooms vs. Spaces

CAD Shack

We need a little bigger number electrically to maximize light per square foot, so we want to run these calcs form the center of wall instead. Spaces (created in Revit MEP ) can be bounded by elements in linked models, in the host model, or in both. Multiple spaces can access the identity of a single room in a linked model.

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Iowa: Moving To The Top Of The Class

Business Facilities

Sustainable electricity is another example of Iowa’s forward-looking approach to meeting the needs of tomorrow. Today, Iowa generates more of its electricity from wind than any other state—more than 36 percent. At the same time, industrial electricity rates in Iowa are nearly 20 percent below the national average, and U.S.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Since the onset of shale gas production, Pennsylvania businesses and homeowners have benefited from a 50 percent decline in natural gas prices and a corresponding 40 percent reduction in the cost of electricity. Wind energy is now the fifth-largest electricity source in the U.S., Wind power in the U.S. The expansion will?be

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

It was meant to make it simple to alter the appearance of our model to be more in sync with what a structural engineer wants to see. When MEP (Systems as it was called then) appeared a year later they extended the concept to Mechanical and Electrical (plumbing lumped in with Mechanical till release 2013).

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CAD Shack: BIMBO

CAD Shack

Then I think I have a friends at Leo A Daly, Merrick, Commonwealth Electric, Lamp Rynearson, E and A Consulting, and ASD Stanley J. The BIM Board of Omaha. BIM Board of Omaha. I thought yes, but I cant blow off my HDR friend so I invite him. How Architects, why not invite them all? Why not let them invite any one they know?

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