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Google’s New York office: Iconic pier transformed through adaptive reuse

Construction Specifier

Recognizing its historical significance, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2004. Now, apart from hosting the anchor tenant, Google, the building also hosts the largest rooftop public park for New Yorkers. The preservation of the building, led by the architect, Handel Architects, received Lucy G.

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

To meet their responsibilities as stakeholders of the built environment ( facilities and other built structures ), public sector owners need to have the ability create credible construction cost estimate for ALL repair, renovation, maintenance (FSRM), and new build projects.

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Revit OpEd: How Many Worksets Do I Need?

Revit OpEd

Recently I was working with a team, their building is a million square feet overall, and opening the whole file took considerably longer than selectively focusing on a single sectors workset. Building Shell or Envelope. Floors Retail. Floors Condos. Floors Rental. Floors Residential. Floors Laboratories.

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Revit OpEd: Wishlist - Families and Hide at Scales Coarser Than

Revit OpEd

It makes it easier to keep certain sections (details/wall sections) and elevations (interior) off of overall floor plan views for example. Combine this with the Detail Level concept and wed have even more granular control over the information and geometry in a family. Thats just not specific or granular enough control.

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20 construction industry trends to watch in 2020

Building Radar

Building planning: digital for optimized workflow 2. ERP and CRM systems: How to make better use of data resources 3. IoT: building with wireless intelligence 5. Take-off: during planning, controlling and commercialization – with drones 10. Mega-trend in the construction industry: the 3D-printed building 11.

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6 showcase hotel construction projects

The Korte Company

An owner’s best partner for hotel construction is a Design-Build firm who understands that. 13, 2004, when Hurricane Charley made landfall just 40 miles away, lashing the coast with 145 mile-per-hour winds. Based on our study of the site, we determined a shorter building with a larger footprint would be the wiser choice.

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Revit OpEd: A Small Collection of Family Editor Advice

Revit OpEd

I included the following tips and advice (edited a little in this version) in a door tutorial I wrote for my Autodesk University 2005 lab called "Autodesk Revit Building Family Editor: From the Beginning". Make a system type parameter into an instance parameter, select dimension with a label in view, check instance parameter in option bar.