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What Wal-Mart in Pullman Means for Chicago Retail and Restaurant Construction … and My Heart

HardHatChat

It will be the engine that drives the train to a community revival by drawing interest for new commercial construction projects from national chains, both corporate-owned and franchises. Unions, politics, retail construction. Wal-Mart has agreed to donate $20 million to neighborhood charities.

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Project Management Technology Tools Helping Contractors Modernize, Streamline Operations—Part 3 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Effective project management means controlling the data flow and staying on top of transmittals, submittals, RFIs, email communications, change orders, materials, inventory, job cost and WIP reports, labor hours and wages, union rules, safety regulations, insurance and bonding, compliance data and a whole lot more.

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How to Choose the Best General Contractor to Partner with for your “First” Commercial Construction Project

HardHatChat

The best way to limit those unknowns is by working with an experienced general contractor with extensive historical data to use as the basis for a sophisticated construction pricing model. Sure, there are drawings and designs, but there are also usually details and ideas in the client’s head that haven’t made it on paper yet.

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BIM Use… The Real Numbers

Building Information Management

Thanks a recent survey (AN ONTOLOGY OF THE USES OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING, A Dissertation in Architectural Engineering By. Kreider) that defined BIM uses and looked a actual project, we now have a much better picture of the “BIM State of the Union” BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment.

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“Mitbestimmung” in Tennessee

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

A showdown between the United Auto Workers and Volkswagen at VW’s $1-billion assembly plant in Chattanooga, TN could have profound implications for the future of the union, the plant and labor relations in the U.S. to offer a compromise to the autoworkers union. Now, buoyed by a brisk recovery in the U.S.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Jake Lester, VDC Manager at Rogers-O’Brien and Andrew???? Schluterman, VP at HKS

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Of course, while a prime location can put a venue on the map, it's really the experiences that draw people in and keep them coming back. My dad's been in construction, and so I went into the carpenters' union out of high school. For example, when we worked on SoFi, 20+ models needed to be coordinated and designed.

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AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems

CAD Shack

As a kid I remember when the President’s State of the Union address would come on. “Oh Parametric Modeling Revit Systems and Autodesk’s other Revit based programs take a giant step ahead of digital drafting and object oriented technologies by creating a relational model that can be queried for any type of view, schedule or detail.

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