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Boston testing mobile building permit tracking app

BD+C

The City of Boston is piloting a Web and mobile app that lets citizens track their permit applications online. For some, that means they could spend more time reviewing architectural drawings and construction plans instead of responding to inquiries. Regulations Codes and Standards'

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Architecture firms struggling from Boston to Wichita

PSMJ Resources

Two articles that came out last week in The Boston Globe and the Wichita Business Journal talked about the fate befalling most architecture firms these days, the struggle to keep the doors open while projects are few and far between. Let's start with the Boston Globe article. In some, it is more than 50 percent!

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What’s new in Advance Steel 2019

BIM & Beam

If your 3D model contains grid lines on distinct levels, you have the ability to display these grid lines on the elevation views of your drawing. For that, you need to activate the default “Display horizontal grid line in details” option which is available in the Management Tools, before creating the view on the drawing.

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Excavator Plunge Draws Proposed $1.2M Fine for Demolition Contractor

ENR Construction

OSHA cites demolition contractor in Boston collapse that killed the operator. .

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Boston Transit Agency CEO Hire Draws Flak

ENR Construction

Veteran corporate executive Luis M. Ramirez began a new role on Sept. 12 as general manager and CEO of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, despite controversy over his lack of public transit management experience and financial scrutiny of Global Power Equipment Group, an engineer and manufacturer of which he was CEO until 2015.

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Digital Builder Ep 52: How Can Today’s Leaders Secure the Future of Construction?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

On this podcast episode While in Autodesk’s Boston office, we had a candid conversation with John Fish , Chairman and CEO of Suffolk Construction , and Jim Lynch , Senior Vice President & General Manager of Autodesk Construction Solutions , to gain insights into the current state of the construction sector. .”

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High-Performance Custom Homes: Systemic Sustainability in Cape Cod

Pro Builder

Although Baczek works as a sole proprietor at his eponymous firm in the Boston metro area, he has collaborated with Jim Wolffer at Shoreline Builders—as he did on this house—for nearly three decades. The architect strives to keep his designs straightforward to build, and getting input from Wolffer ensures that’s the case. .