Building Information Management

AUGUST 30, 2013

The study centered upon the development of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the UK construction industry and its pontential affect on the role of the client’s construction manager (CM). Potential impacts to the CM range from increased efficiencies on site, to loss of project control and increased legislation.

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Construction Specifier

JUNE 25, 2024

and Steven Gaynor, MBA Photo courtesy Tenmat New York City recently became the first jurisdiction in the country to reject and rewrite major sections of the International Building Code’s ( IBC ’s) language around fire protection in exterior facades. For decades, buildings have relied on intumescent materials for fire control.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Judd Fuoto , Construction Technologies Manager at Southland Industries , sat down with us to discuss his role there, what it takes to lay a strong foundation for getting innovative technology off the ground, and how to work together effectively in the process. After that, I went into facilities management and operations.

Construction Management 52

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Revit OpEd

JULY 19, 2012

Control Wall’s Material Return. A door or window family has the ability to control the return of materials (i.e. The exterior and interior materials can be controlled separately. These adjustments change the 3D model, not just the 2D plan-view. A single door family is controlling the various conditions shown below.

Wall Systems 72

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BDC Network

AUGUST 7, 2023

Senior Living Design When Mary-Jean Eastman, FAIA, and I founded Perkins Eastman over 40 years ago, we sought to build a practice structured around six specialized but complementary practice areas, including Healthcare, Education, Multifamily Housing, and Senior Living and Care. Most people who had a choice avoided these options.

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Construction Dive

JUNE 7, 2012

November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. Working on something: Project Management within WordPress. Ross on How to extend WP User Frontend Kristina on Working on something: Project Management within WordPress Rakib on Bought Amazon Kindle for E-Book reading Tareq on How to extend WP User Frontend.

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Revit OpEd

MAY 15, 2012

As Revits features have been merged into the new Building Design Suite "Revit" it became apparent that putting all the tools in one box created some curious view, view template and discipline control issues that had to be sorted out, thus being able to create view types for more views was born. Builds and Updates. at 1:58 PM.

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Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

When Mechanical is assigned Revit changes the nature of what plan and reflected plan mean. This subtle change occurs because the notion of a plan and reflected plan view means slightly different things to architects and engineers. They were there but the discipline change altered how Revit calculates the display of the elements.

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Revit OpEd

MAY 16, 2012

With Revit 2013 my view templates will adjust all those details as soon as I change the template, or at least they can if I set it up that way. I'm a little concerned w/ the new 2013 view template feature as it takes away the flexibility of independently controlling the VG per view regardles of the View Template assigned to it.

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Project Management Consulting Architecture Ceiling Systems Risk Management 65

Revit OpEd

APRIL 18, 2012

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. FFE NIC (by owner that may be easier to manage alone). They might end up in your project or not. Wing South.

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UK Construction Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

On top of that, the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe have come together to build the greatest solar telescope that Europe has ever seen. Original Source: Company fined after bricklayer fractures skull in fall A building company was fined £12,000 when a bricklayer fell and broke his head. The event hospitalised Ife for three days.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 9, 2012

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". Change the scale of the view to make it easier to constrain, select geometry. A Small Collection of Family Editor Advice.

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

4BT-CE is the estimating and LEAN construction delivery component of Building in Cloud. 4BT-CE embeds integrated project delivery best management practices, including the OpenJOC TM process, to enable higher levels of collaboration among owners, contractors, subcontractors, building users, and oversight groups.

Estimating 40

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 31, 2012

Combine this with the Detail Level concept and wed have even more granular control over the information and geometry in a family. Related to this is the notion that there are representations that wed like to control for floor plan orientation and offer a different appear for the reflected ceiling plan (RCP) version. Builds and Updates.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 30, 2012

Builds and Updates. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. Can't Change a Parameter from Type to Instance. Control Grips in Families. ► 2008. ► December 2008. (16). ► November 2008. (17). ► October 2008. (35). ► September 2008. (49).

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 30, 2012

Builds and Updates. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. Can't Change a Parameter from Type to Instance. Control Grips in Families. ► 2008. ► December 2008. (16). ► November 2008. (17). ► October 2008. (35). ► September 2008. (49).

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Revit OpEd

MAY 8, 2012

Revit 2013 changes the means to reduce the overall size of the text displayed in a dimension string, particularly noticeable to people using imperial units. So ideally you should be able to control the dimension value [via Project Units > Length] and additionally tweak the Prefix Suffix Text setting under the Dimension Type.

Project Management Consulting 53

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 30, 2012

Builds and Updates. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. Can't Change a Parameter from Type to Instance. Control Grips in Families. ► 2008. ► December 2008. (16). ► November 2008. (17). ► October 2008. (35). ► September 2008. (49).

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) Project Management Consulting Architecture Schedule Management 58

Revit OpEd

APRIL 3, 2012

We could use filters to exclude them just as easily with more graphic control as well. As for other subtle library changes we will now find some categories separated by Internal and External, interesting language choice versus Interior and Exterior. Builds and Updates. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming.

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Practical Law Construction

MAY 27, 2022

The competency and training of those operating and supervising cranes could be considered as an area in need of regulatory change. Building on the general duty to ensure the health, safety and welfare of employees at work under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Competency and training. Of course, both concepts come with constraints.

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Cassell Construction Estimating

JANUARY 7, 2014

All too soon, business demands control our hours and days, and we find ourselves trying to keep up with the ever-increasing speed of our industry’s squirrel cage . With that in mind, I took a look back to see that I’ve been writing this blog post for over five years now, the first one back in October of 2008.

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The Korte Company

JUNE 16, 2020

Mark skillfully carried out the demanding work of surveying, ensuring accuracy even in the face of practical difficulty—his work as Chief Surveyor, Project Manager and occasional Superintendent over 21 years with The Korte Company are evidence of that. But Mark didn’t just accomplish these things himself.

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Construction Daily News

JULY 4, 2023

Residential building increased 2.1% Non-residential building decreased 0.2%, and outside of chip fabrication and tech, activity is certain to remain subdued, particularly with the manufacturing sector plainly struggling, office demand chronically weak, and high borrowing rates and bad business sentiment deterring activity elsewhere.

Controls Manufacturing 52

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Construction Dive

JULY 7, 2009

if they change or add a third source, id have to change my code). So to build my drop down, id have to read the entire config directory and parse through all the sections (there are others that are not sources) and see which ones are sections, then get their names, and display it in the drop down menu for the user to select (BLEGH!

Building Codes 120

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Business Facilities

JULY 31, 2019

Returning Superfund sites back to productive use has resulted in dramatic changes in communities by improving the quality of life, raising property values, and providing needed services to communities. In January 2012, Waste Management completed construction of a landfill cap on the remaining 32 acres of the site.

Fire Protection System Installation 67

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Construction Dive

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Monday, October 6th, 2008. Activate this option (either compiling it directly into the kernel or building it as a module) and recompile your kernel. (In If you changed the kernel proper, you may need to modify your LILO or GRUB configuration and reboot. This tool is obviously useful for controlling access to your NBD server. -C

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Levelset

JUNE 29, 2022

The organization takes this seriously: Fatal falls in construction account for one of every three construction worker deaths according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s pretty much every construction site where the building is above one story. Eye and face protection – 1,494 violations.

Safety Regulations 52

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Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 2, 2016

These represents the largest increases since 2008. The construction sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in the construction of buildings or engineering projects (e.g., Dynamic Changes in Employment. . . Dynamic changes in employment (in thousands). Construction managers. in Q1) and 2.5% Data series.

Construction Equipment 40

Construction Equipment Maintenance Painting/finishing Surveying 40

Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2010

With that information, the services can identify architects, building owners, municipalities, engineering firms, planners and other groups that are planning or putting out to bid commercial projects. 2. Deliver the leads to a lead manager. Both providers pull much of their data from public sources. Vital Statistics. Year Founded.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 1, 2014

IBM Services Center: Baton Rouge will deliver technology services including application development, application management and system integration. The facility is slated to build four airplanes a month, but could expand to eight planes a month eventually. In 2008, Chrysler rolled the dice and told the world it would invest $1.8

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Building Information Management

JULY 2, 2012

That portion of HVACie content pertaining to managed assets is 100% compatible with the NBIS-US COBie standard. William East, Project Manager (CEERD-CF-N). In previous work, building information models (BIMs) were developed for three buildings: Duplex Apartment, Office, and Clinic. Dr. East was the Project Manager.

HVAC Systems 40

HVAC Systems HVAC System Installation Building Information Modeling (BIM) Construction Equipment 40

Building Information Management

JULY 2, 2012

That portion of HVACie content pertaining to managed assets is 100% compatible with the NBIS-US COBie standard. William East, Project Manager (CEERD-CF-N). In previous work, building information models (BIMs) were developed for three buildings: Duplex Apartment, Office, and Clinic. Dr. East was the Project Manager.

HVAC Systems 40

HVAC Systems HVAC System Installation Building Information Modeling (BIM) Construction Equipment 40

Construction Daily News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Because there are many little businesses here, Lansiquot said, “It will definitely be a change to businesses, small businesses.” July US Single-family Housing Building Spending Climbs Significantly Original Source: US construction spending rises strongly in July on single-family housing July U.S. Of course it will impact business.

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Real Estate Development Building Materials Manufacturing Infrastructure Development Construction Equipment 52

UK Construction Blog

MAY 11, 2024

The post Learn About the Latest News on the Largest UK Solar Facility by Sonnedix, the Keepmoat’s Brilliant New Bricklayers Addressing the Construction Skills Deficit, Recruiter Predicts Worsening Construction Skills Shortages, and the Building of Ontario’s First Rail Megaproject appeared first on UK Construction Blog.

Renewable Energy Systems 52

Renewable Energy Systems Green Building Electrical Systems Facility Management 52

Business Facilities

JULY 15, 2014

In order to manage effective food processing, food processors must consider facilities that will be up to par with their business. Local carriers provide transloading from truck to rail and offer myriad warehouse storage options, including dry, climate controlled and frozen. Here are a few that make the cut.

Building Products Distribution 64

Building Products Distribution Building Materials Manufacturing Infrastructure Development Controls Manufacturing 64

Business Facilities

AUGUST 20, 2014

The CEO Council of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance was formed in 2008 as a totally private sector funded association of CEOs and senior business leaders to market and promote the Greater Fort Lauderdale area as a premier location for corporate and international regional headquarters. “I million in capital investment.

Public Works 68

Public Works Real Estate Development Site Planning Project Management Consulting 68

Building Information Management

MARCH 19, 2013

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management.

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