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Construction Marketing Secret: Architecture Billings a Leading Indicator of Construction

Construction Marketing

However, since architects design the overwhelming majority of nonresidential construction projects, gathering information on billings at architecture firms provides leading information on future construction trends. The AIA Work-on-the-Boards Survey and the Architectural Billings Index.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Furthermore, of this 5%, most of the applications have not leveraged, or even been designed to leverage the full valued of Lean. Design-Build Contracting Claims: Cumulative Supplement. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 8 (4,), 292-303. Design and Construction: Building in Value. Bramble, B.

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Modular Can Be High End

Pro Builder

Joseph Tanney, a founder of Resolution 4 Architecture in New York City, who has been designing modular homes since 2002, said today’s modular homes can be very high end. A seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom modular home that Mr. Tanney designed in Bridgehampton, N.Y., Modular Can Be High End. Fri, 09/24/2021 - 10:51.

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Revit OpEd: Building Design Suite Installation Readme

Revit OpEd

Building Design Suite Installation Readme. If you are preparing for installing the 2013 Revit products via the Building Design Suites then you might want to start with the System Requirements PDF documents for each version. Book - Introducing Revit Architecture. Introducing Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Now Shipping.

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Another case for an irreverent design opinion

PSMJ Resources

My boss Frank Stasiowski wrote in his book, How to Get the Best Clients at the Highest Fees , “If you really want to differentiate yourself from the competition and get the highest price for your design ideas, commit yourself to a controversial, even irreverent, opinion about some aspect of a particular solution on a particular project type.

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Michael G. Smith Writes about the Value of Cob

Natural Building

Earthen materials have excellent thermal mass properties which lend themselves to efficient passive solar designs, reducing energy use for heating and cooling over the long run. But cob can be combined with better-insulating techniques such as straw bale, straw-clay, chip-and-slip, hempcrete , or ricecrete in a hybrid design.

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Revit OpEd: Revit LT

Revit OpEd

Chief among the features that are missing are worksets, design options, rendering (only through Autodesk 360), no export to IFC, conceptual massing, interference checking, and parts or assemblies. Edit 9/6/2012: I received an email from Autodesk regarding Design Options. Design Options are part of Revit LT. Anonymous said.

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