The Korte Company

DECEMBER 27, 2005

The Construction Management Department at University of Las Vegas recently announced its newly appointed Industry Advisory Board. The department offers a four-year program which merges Business, Engineering and Architectural programs into a single curriculum producing management-level employees to the burgeoning construction industry both in Las Vegas and nationally.

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CAD Shack

DECEMBER 27, 2005

Here’s a tool that probably is over looked by most people new to ABS. That tool is anchors. Anchors are pretty much self descriptive. They are used to anchor one object or entity to another. When an object is anchored a host object, movements of the host trigger identical movements in the object. This might come in real handy to keep switches anchored to doors that change their swing or hinge, or keeping light fixtures and diffusers within a referenced ceiling grid, or keeping receptacles on a w

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Construction Lawyer

DECEMBER 19, 2005

constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co

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The Korte Company

DECEMBER 26, 2005

The Korte Company recently finished the exterior portion of work on a 49,669 square foot retail facility for Whole Foods Market located at 100 S. Green Valley Parkway. Whole Foods is the world’s leading natural and organic foods supermarket, and in keeping with the Whole Food’s philosophy, most of the materials being used for the building are environmentally friendly.

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CAD Shack

DECEMBER 22, 2005

One of the most powerful tools in ABS is scheduling. Using a predefined schedule is easy, but figuring out how that schedule works and how to customize it is not. I hope to answer those questions in this article. How does it work? Objects in ABS possess sets of properties specific to that object. For example, a diffuser has a property for flow, a receptacle has a property for circuit number, and a sink has a property for fixture type.

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CAD Shack

DECEMBER 20, 2005

What’s so great about Autodesk Building Systems? Why should I walk away from a proven product like AutoCAD, when I have so much invested in it? These are very valid questions that many CAD Managers and Owners are asking themselves lately. Of course the answer can be different for everyone of them depending on individual needs and uses of the software, but I would like to offer up what I see as the big ticket items that make ABS so appealing.

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Construction Lawyer

DECEMBER 15, 2005

constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co

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