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Tips for a Successful Webinar

Construction Marketing

Visual Branding. Add fonts, colors, and visuals that match your branding. Time zones are very important. What are their goals? Knowing these three questions will allow you to get a better understanding of the audience. You need to be consistent and align everything with your brand. Add your logo. Pick your topic.

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Disability and architecture: ADA and universal design at college campuses

BD+C

Dark corridors with uniform flooring create navigation difficulties for students with visual impairments. New hearing or visual impairment technologies, for instance, might prompt a college to upgrade its systems. Universal design also considers those with visual and hearing impairments.

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Three Easy Steps to Building a Commercial Building

Wolgast Corporation

This preliminary phase includes a floorplan, exterior elevations (if applicable), code and zoning checks, and an initial engineering analysis. During this phase, clients will also get a construction cost estimate that is sufficient for presenting to an owner’s financial institution for securing a construction loan.

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Bluebeam Tips: Construction Safety Hazards using Pictograms

Carol Hagen

These visual cues should heighten our awareness so why not place them on your plans to remind employees as they enter work areas what is present? Use Bluebeam to help you with safety talks, acting as a visual aid. Why visuals are so important to safety. Every safety meeting should incorporate visuals, not just speaking or text.

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The programmatic evolution of the lobby

BD+C

As a result, the security guard, no longer needed for the most part to secure the building from unauthorized visitors nor positioned behind a massive stone reception desk, is now free to meet and interact with lobby users more like an ambassador or even a concierge in a comfortable, inviting lobby zone. 200 West Madison Street, Chicago, Ill.

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Integrating lighting into specialty ceilings

Construction Specifier

The purpose of lighting—both natural and artificial—in the built space has always been to elevate the architectural environment, providing a level of functionality and visual comfort to space occupants, as well as enhancing unique and/or important attributes of the architectural design itself. Background.

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AStrutTie 2017 – The powerful software for structural design

Construction Cost Estimating

This software facilitates the construction professionals to design corbel (bracket), abutment/pier footing, bridge pier coping (pier cap), frame corner, anchorage zone, deep beam, etc. AStrutTie offers several automated design checks concerning the conditions for rebar requirement and strength verification of struts and nodal zones.