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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

2004; Black et al., Conceptual model of partnering and alliancing. Development of a practical model of partnering for construction. Application of ANP in process models: An example of strategic. 2000; Grajek et al., 2000; Gransberg et al., Lower project related cost growth. Projects completed at or under budgeted cost.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Development of a conceptual model of construction partnering. Lean Construction: arenas of enactment, models of diffusion and the meaning of ‘leanness’. Sutter Health: Developing a contracting model to support lean project delivery Lean Construction Journal 2(1), 105-112. Bramble, B. NY: Aspen Publishers. L., & Li, H.

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

CSI introduced an expanded version, the MasterFormat , in 2004 that includes 50 divisions of work covering civil site and infrastructure work as well as process equipment—a significant increase from the previous 16 divisions covering building construction that had been in use for years.

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Trolling the Past - Model Text Family

Revit OpEd

I've posted the revised working family and the nested model text family so they can be downloaded: 2012 Awning Band.rfa 2012 Awning Text.rfa (the nested family) (now you have another minor excuse to get 2012 installed) I also wrote: Oh.I A couple years ago (try nearly seven!!), It may be a bit unfair but I fixed the family in 2012 today.

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Carole Wedge, former Shepley Bulfinch President and CEO, retires after 37 years

BD+C

Beginning her journey at Shepley working in the mailroom in 1986, Carole went on to become Shepley’s first female President and CEO in 2004, leading the firm through nearly two decades of expansion and hundreds of prestigious and innovative architectural projects. in 2019, and Durham, N.C.,

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Revit OpEd: Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models

Revit OpEd

Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models. When we have architecture and structure in separate Revit models we end up with somewhat clumsy graphics in wall sections. This is more pronounced if the structural slab is in the structure model only. The issue is the same when interior walls are linked into a shell model.

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AStrutTie 2017 – The powerful software for structural design

Construction Cost Estimating

HanGil IT develops AStrutTie 2017, a software that can be used for strut-tie model analysis and design for concrete members having disturbed stress region(s). The most accurate strut-tie models is developed based on the principal stress flows and/or evolutionary structural optimization (ESO) results.