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Curtain wall design-assist: Navigating the process for success

Construction Specifier

In this case, a basis-of-design, commodity, stick-built curtain wall system can be shown on the architectural drawings and included in the performance specifications and can be competitively bid by the CM/GC after final construction documents are produced.

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Design is in the process: Early consultant collaboration drives better teams, designs, and buildings

Construction Specifier

Some days, one might spend three hours on a conference call addressing consultant coordination, all while requests for information (RFIs) and client comments accumulate in the inbox. Mechanical ducts conflict with structural beams, soffits, or ceiling design. But the day-to-day work is a lot of emailing and phone tag. The best designs?

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Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Book is Available

Revit OpEd

Ken is a structural engineer and was, until recently, the Revit Structure Quality Assurance Analyst at Autodesk. He works hard to be a champion of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry.

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Streamlining Construction Workflows: Hodari Africa  Excels with Autodesk Build

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Hodari Africa , a leading project management firm, recognised the limitations of traditional document-sharing platforms and sought a more robust solution to enhance their construction workflows. At the same time, the architects and structural engineers worked from South Africa. Email to me is 1990s technology.

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Refine versus shine: Defining and defending design intent with refined concrete

Construction Specifier

As director of specifications at OConnell Robertson, she focuses on establishing clear project terminology early in design to strengthen communication and improve contract documents. Chris Bennett, CSC, iSCS, CDT, is a concrete consultant in Portland, Ore. Kathryn Marek, AIA, CSI, CCCA, NCARB, SCIP is a specifier and an architect.

Concrete 105
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When is a discrepancy not really a discrepancy?

DebunkTheBIM

They both are confident to be following well established building-documenting practices. The structural engineer sizes the concrete column; the architect places it in the space. There is a code on the structural drawing that can be tracked to the schedule and the dimensions are noted.

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REPAIR OF POST CONCRETING DEFECTS IN STRUCTURES

The Constructor

Related posts: POST TENSIONING IN REHABILITATION OF STRUCTURES DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS IN REPAIR OF STRUCTURES STRUCTURAL DEFECTS OF FOUNDATIONS AT CONSTRUCTION STAGE HOT WEATHER CONCRETING COLD WEATHER / WINTER CONCRETING Q&A: how to get admission into iit for post graduate courses , what is the gate score required?

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