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According to an MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research Study, the average firm spends 71% of their IT budget on running current systems and some blow as much as 80% of their budget keeping the status quo. What if you could reduce this to 50-60% of the IT budget? . That’s what can be achieved over time according to “ IT Savvy ” by Peter Weill & Jeanne W.
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The Korte Company has begun construction on a $40.1 million multi-aircraft hanger for the 76th Aircraft Maintenance Group at Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The 164,443 square foot facility, when completed, will perform programmed depot maintenance for a variety of aircraft. The hangar includes open and private offices, administration areas, break room, latrine/shower areas, open bay work area, technical order library, and building utility rooms.
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My Friend Tom Davanaugh is more enthusiastic about his iPhone than any other tech gadget he’s ever had. That’s significant since Tom has lived and breathed IT for decades and is dedicated to educating the construction industry on ECM solutions. Whenever we chat he mentions new apps he’s using. The latest excitement has come from JotNot and Evernote since document imaging and mobility are required in the construction business today.
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Anyone planning to build a new energy efficient home, addition, or remodel their existing home is encouraged to attend a Free Green Home Seminar and Timberpeg® Green Open House Tour on Sunday, October 11, 2009. Here are the important details: Free Seminar on Building a Green Home: Best Western Sunapee Lake Lodge, Newbury, NH 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (registration starts at 8:30) Timberpeg® Open House Tour: Lot 22, Summit Road, Sutton, NH (green home under construction) 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM You'll have p
The first time I received email was truly a “wow” experience. Staring at a black and white screen at my college computer lab, I exchanged messages instantly to my friends who had traveled to other far off universities. Email was exciting. Every couple of days you would get a new email and it felt like your friends and family had sent you a little hug.
Maybe it is common knowledge, but for those of you looking for tricks when Revit goes unresponsive, I have something that has worked for me. Folks have been talking about minimizing Revit to free up virtual memory. Others are saying nothing really happens. For me I have noticed that if Revit gives me a ' Memory Low or Out of memory ' error and it seems to be unresponsive, minimizing the Revit application then immediately bringing it back up seems to wake Revit up long enough to save to local and
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The American Institute of Architects' Architecture Billings Index gave back some of the increase it registered in July as its August ABI rating was 41.7, down slightly from 43.1 in July. That July number was a six-point increase over June, so while things were a bit sluggish in August, they are still above what they had been in June. That said, the August numbers represent the continuation of an up-and-down pattern that has plagued the ABI all summer and is indicative of the changing nature of t
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