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Schmidt Associates News: Remembering Ron Fisher, AIA, LEED AP, July 25, 1956 – April 5, 2023

Civil + Structural Engineer

He constantly pushed the Schmidt Associates team to create new systems and processes that improve accuracy, to automate wherever possible, and to create better long-term solutions built on understanding foundational data. Fisher believed that “What gets measured gets done.” Pierre Award from AIA Indiana.

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Reverse Callback Templating - Perl.com

Construction Dive

The Perl community has produced many fine systems for doing just this. While there are many systems, they largely fall within two execution models, pipeline and callback (as noted by Perrin Harkins in Choosing a Templating System ). Foundation News. December 2005 (4). November 2005 (3). October 2005 (2).

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Bayfield & Roberts, 2005, Hook & Stehn, 2008, Howell, 1999, McGrath-Champ & Rosewarne, 2009). Little benefit would be achieved by attempting to directly apply the Toyota Production System (TPS), or similar approaches to the AEC sector, exclusive of as a general background learning exercise. Alarcon (Ed.), Barrett, P.

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JLL names Matt Coursen head of U.S. Healthcare Leasing

CCR Magazine

Coursen joined JLL in 2005 and has built an impressive career partnering with hospitals, health systems and investor clients with cutting-edge location analytics, strategic consulting and sophisticated transaction expertise. Based in Washington, D.C.,

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Insulation’s crucial role in creating habitable basements

Construction Specifier

By Mike Fischer One of the first questions to be asked when designing a basement foundation is “what is the desired functionality of the basement?” On the far end of the spectrum, the basement may serve as a structural foundation only and nothing more. In other words, it will be cold in the winter and damp during much of the year.

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Cairo & the Built Environment: Past, Present, and Future

Civil + Structural Engineer

This ambitious project–owned by the Egyptian National Authority of Tunnels (NAT)–is intended to create a direct connection between Cairo, the New Administrative Capital, and 6th of October City via a two-line rapid transit system. When completed, this will be the longest driverless monorail system in the world.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

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). Structural - Similar to architecture but hides non-load bearing walls and some hidden line behavior with respect to concrete floors/slabs and foundations.