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L.A. City Council approves plan for new $1 billion Watts development

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Los Angeles city officials have voted to revitalize a notorious Watts housing project with shops, town homes, and green spaces. The City Council voted unanimously to approve a series of land use and planning laws that took four years to draft. Funding still needs to be secured, however. Legislation Codes and Standards'

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6 guideposts for cities to create equitable transit-oriented developments

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As existing residents move further away from economic centers to afford goods, services, and housing, the revitalized neighborhood takes on a new identity. However, there is a purposeful shift under way toward a concept that prioritizes equity at every step of the process to enable inclusive communities around transit stops.

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Justifying a Revit Manager

Revit OpEd

Imagine.you work for a firm that doesn''t have a dedicated Revit Manager. There are nearly fifty of you toiling away with Revit now, things are busy, business is growing. Still, management isn''t interested in having a dedicated Revit Manager. Can you help your firm justify a Revit Manager? That''s great!

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The annual planning/sales meeting: How does it work for you?

Construction Marketing Ideas

An image from an earlier annual planning meting. Today, we begin our two-day annual planning/budgeting and sales meetings. We realized we hadn’t been updating and invoicing for these listings — and generated an immediate $20,000 in cash revenue — with continuing annual residual income.).

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Strict adherence to standards reaps rewards

Construction Specifier

This program generates a credit that directly reduces taxes rather than offering a tax deduction such as depreciation, which reduces taxable income. It creates jobs and is one of the nation’s most successful and cost-effective community revitalization programs. Each project typically is required to undergo a three-part process.

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Importing CAD Files and By Shared Coordinates

Revit OpEd

When we link/import DWG files with survey data Revit often encounters file extents that are quite large. Revit will forcefully use that option when the extents of the file violate the current 20 mile tolerance it has. I find that Revit will acquire very large coordinates accurately IF the file is pristine.

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What’s New with Autodesk Construction Cloud? 35+ Releases You Should Know  

Autodesk Construction Cloud

By having the option to add RFIs, Schedule, and Issue references from the RFI reference picker when editing or creating an RFI, teams get access to a wide range of historical and planned information to make decisions faster. . Coordination | View Issues from other Revit files | Revit Issues Add-In . BuildingConnected .

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