Companies have been wondering aloud for quite some time about the possibility of using drones as the couriers of the future. Amazon has not made it a secret that they want to use drones to deliver packages in the near future and, earlier this year, Domino’s delivered the first pizza by drone in New Zealand MORE
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Please share your ideas in the comments with our readers. Once you’ve completed building your customers dream home you hand over the keys and all the documentation. MORE
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday President Trump will begin to map out his ideas for repairing U.S. roads, bridges and airports will be addressed in Trump’s joint speech to Congress next week as well as in the budget, which is expected to be released in mid-March MORE
Here are a few ideas to get you started: Livescribe Smartpen – I’m still a believer in the Livescribe Smartpen. You may be one of those people, like me, who get a ton of gift cards during the holidays. If so, you are thinking, “What am I going to do with all these?” MORE
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Winning the job does not mean the marketing of the firm and the team is over. In fact, the moment of highest anxiety for the client is right after they have hired you for the job. Did we make the right choice? Will they deliver what they promised, or what we thought they promised? Will we be able to get along with these people for the next two years? Be sure your project teams keep the following in mind: 1. Clients always chose us for reasons other than what we think. MORE
Here are ideas to make it work for your company. … Continue reading Four Ideas for ‘Sticky’ Community Involvement → The post Four Ideas for ‘Sticky’ Community Involvement appeared first on Construction Informer Blog - Construction Blog with Information, News, and Commentary. Google+. Community involvement is a game changer for construction companies because it makes them part of the community team. MORE
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Oxford Economics took a deep look at the human resources challenges in the near … Continue reading Construction Training: Ideas and Resources for Making it Happen → The post Construction Training: Ideas and Resources for Making it Happen appeared first on Construction Informer Blog - Blog with Construction News and Commentary. Google+. There’s much more to construction training than learning the technical aspects of how to do a job. MORE
Architect Stéphane Malka of Paris, France, has come up with a unique and quite ambitious idea of creating new housing in his city. The system he proposes calls for prefabricated units to be added onto the existing building. MORE
Coming up with a bunch of different ideas on how to proceed, it can be tricky but there’s no need to worry. We have gathered below twenty unique construction marketing ideas in order to help you step up your marketing effort : 1. MORE
The winners and finalists in the 2017 World Changing Ideas Awards program will be highlighted in the magazine’s April 2017 issue. read more. Residential Plumbing MORE
I have not-so-groundbreaking news to share: America’s infrastructure is underfunded MORE
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From Chic & Cheap Nursery. Check out the awesome old-school aviator themed wallpaper in the back of this room. Love the matching of the modern bed and bookshelf combo with the old yellow school chair. On the far right you can catch a glimpse of the retro chicken wire armoire doors. Love it! MORE
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The American Society of Civil Engineers Innovation Contest addresses the ASCE’s Grand Challenge, which tasks civil engineers to significantly enhance the performance and life-cycle value of infrastructure by 2025 MORE
As you know, Sunset Magazine selected the Breezehouse by Blu Homes for the 2012 Idea House (last year it was a solar-powered container house ). Related Articles on JetsonGreen.com: Breezehouse is the New Sunset Idea House. Sunset Idea House Prefab in Healdsburg. MORE
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JUNE 30, 2015
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JANUARY 5, 2016
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JULY 14, 2017
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The American Society of Civil Engineers Innovation Contest addresses the ASCE’s Grand Challenge, which tasks civil engineers to significantly enhance the performance and life-cycle value of infrastructure by 2025
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Construction Informer
AUGUST 10, 2015
Here are ideas to make it work for your company. … Continue reading Four Ideas for ‘Sticky’ Community Involvement → The post Four Ideas for ‘Sticky’ Community Involvement appeared first on Construction Informer Blog - Construction Blog with Information, News, and Commentary. Google+. Community involvement is a game changer for construction companies because it makes them part of the community team.
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APRIL 1, 2016
Architect Stéphane Malka of Paris, France, has come up with a unique and quite ambitious idea of creating new housing in his city. The system he proposes calls for prefabricated units to be added onto the existing building.
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Please share your ideas in the comments with our readers. Once you’ve completed building your customers dream home you hand over the keys and all the documentation.
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
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JUNE 30, 2016
Over the past five years, we’ve seen a specific trend emerge in the world of higher education. It’s the emergence of a relatively small space, called the academic incubator. For Gensler, this began with universities such as MIT and organizations like Chicago’s 1871. They were designing hybrid maker spaces that acted as ‘bridges’ between the worlds of academia and the workplace, and they had the feel of entrepreneurial start-up offices
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Winning the job does not mean the marketing of the firm and the team is over. In fact, the moment of highest anxiety for the client is right after they have hired you for the job. Did we make the right choice? Will they deliver what they promised, or what we thought they promised? Will we be able to get along with these people for the next two years? Be sure your project teams keep the following in mind: 1. Clients always chose us for reasons other than what we think.
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German architect Han Slawik created his Homebox design based on the shipping container building model, taking into consideration the ease of transport, universal dimensions and general usefulness of shipping containers. However, the Homebox is not made from an actual steel shipping container.
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Oxford Economics took a deep look at the human resources challenges in the near … Continue reading Construction Training: Ideas and Resources for Making it Happen → The post Construction Training: Ideas and Resources for Making it Happen appeared first on Construction Informer Blog - Blog with Construction News and Commentary. Google+. There’s much more to construction training than learning the technical aspects of how to do a job.
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On May 11, BD+C hosted its first Accelerate Live! innovation conference, in Chicago, a multimedia event where an audience of more than 100 of the industry’s cognoscenti listened to a rapid-fire barrage of 15-minute presentations by 19 AEC experts.
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Help Everybody Everyday
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Here are a few ideas to get you started: Livescribe Smartpen – I’m still a believer in the Livescribe Smartpen. You may be one of those people, like me, who get a ton of gift cards during the holidays. If so, you are thinking, “What am I going to do with all these?”
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From Chic & Cheap Nursery. Check out the awesome old-school aviator themed wallpaper in the back of this room. Love the matching of the modern bed and bookshelf combo with the old yellow school chair. On the far right you can catch a glimpse of the retro chicken wire armoire doors. Love it!
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