Revit OpEd
AUGUST 12, 2008
Several years ago, as part of a task I was given by a team at WATG , I created six concrete baluster families and mocked one of them up in a stair that I posted in a THREAD at AUGI. I thought I'd dig them up and post them so that others might either use them or reverse engineer how I built them. The balusters are comprised of a Generic Model Solid Revolve derived from the profiles available from CDI.
Construction Dive
AUGUST 23, 2008
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Confessions of a Java Programmer. A guide on solving common programming problems using Java, Groovy, Grails, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, Spring, and other technologies. Saturday, August 23, 2008. The often unappreciated MINUS SQL query. There are times when you need to verify that a given record is associated with all of a given type of records.
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PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 31, 2008
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recently required a local transit authority to return over $900,000 in federal grant funds that were used to pay an A/E firm for the design of a new facility. The Lackawanna County (NY) Transit Authority must return the full federal grant applied to the hiring of an A/E firm to perform design services for a proposed intermodal transportation center.
Constructor Marketing that Works
AUGUST 29, 2008
'Oops, I did it again. (Apologies to Ms. Spears, perhaps the only one she’s gotten in awhile.) But I – well, “we” since my wife is an accomplice – bought another project. It’s an old, dilapidated, run-down house, exactly the condition we like. Seems to be a theme with me: “HEY LOOK! There’s a project where I’ll need contractors in my work life AND nonexistent spare time!
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AUGUST 28, 2008
I wanted to draw everyone's attention to this important post on Steve's blog. No need to re-hash, but this is a pretty big deal. I haven't thoroughly checked to see if any of my stuff has been re-posted. Though I don't tend to write tutorials or such. Read all about it!
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CAD Shack
AUGUST 20, 2008
Autodesk has released AutoCAD Revit MEP Suite 2009 Product Update 1. To download it click here. This seems to only address issues with AutoCAD and AutoCAD MEP. For a full list of problems addressed (in English) click here.
C-School
AUGUST 11, 2008
I ran across this blog posting with study tips for the LEED AP exam. The blogger reported a score of 197 out of 200. This is the highest score I have heard of on this exam, so I thought the readers of this blog would like to know how this person studied. Be sure to check out my study tips at: How I Passed the LEED AP V2.2 Exam.
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 28, 2008
When times are tough, such as they are right now for some of you in the AEC industry, there's a mentality that often creeps up among firm leaders that "we need to get back to doing what got us here." Sounds like a good idea on the surface, but you have to keep up with the times. What got you from a $1 million firm to a $10 million firm will not get you from $10 million to $100 million.
Constructor Marketing that Works
AUGUST 14, 2008
'Woe is me. Seems my last editorial about a laparoscopy which was really a “colonoscopy” but who cares?) didn’t go over that well with some of the more “delicate” readers, one of whom simply wrote “GROSS!” on her re-faxed copy. How’d I know it was from a female? Because guys think burping and making noises with their armpits is hilarious; we don’t gauge gross…. we ARE gross!
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AUGUST 6, 2008
No it is not me. 4 years of experience in Architecture, preparing to take ARE tests. Looking for work in Philadelphia or suburbs. Has worked on master planning, dormitories, student centers and classroom buildings, other previous experience too. Familiar with all aspects of Revit including 2009. Comments are moderated through me either contact me that way or by e-mail.
Natural Building
AUGUST 12, 2008
Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart, webmaster of the popular website www.greenhomebuilding.com, posts text and photos featuring what he discovers from around the world.
CAD Shack
AUGUST 5, 2008
Working in 3D can be e real challenge at times when you are used to only worrying about 2 dimensions. One tool I have found to be very handy is the ability to orient a 3D view of a multiple story building to show just one floor at a time. To do this go to the View menu and select Orient and then To Other View. This will bring up a dialog that allows you to select the floor you want to view.
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 28, 2008
Last month, we wrote that McGraw -Hill (which publishes Engineering News-Record and Architectural Record , among many other publications) is interested in buying Reed Business Information (which publishes Building Design + Construction , among many other publications). According to a Folio magazine article published earlier today, Reed Elsevier is said to have allowed first-round bidders for RBI to resubmit their bids last week.
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PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 28, 2008
The managers of Kansas City-based HOK Sport Venue Event, the world's leading sports architecture firm, and the board of its St. Louis-based parent company, HOK Group Inc., have agreed to a transfer in ownership of HOK Sport Venue Event to the leaders of that practice, according to a Kansas City Business Journal article published Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed, according to the article, which said that HOK Group shareholders approved the transaction at a meeting on Thursday.
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 27, 2008
The realities of the economic marketplace are causing Las Vegas, Nevada-based Trevi Architectural to close on Friday, according to an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The firm has provided custom fountains, statuary, sculptures, columns and moldings to resorts including Wynn Las Vegas, Wynn Macau, The Venetian, and Caesars Palace, but company founder Scott Acton told the newspaper that a combination of factors led the to the business' closing, including a series of unpaid bills and a dec
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 26, 2008
In case you missed it, URS Corp. and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced three acquisitions in the past week. Two firms, three acquisitions? Yes, you read that correctly as URS, the 50,000-person engineering, construction, and technical services firm based in San Francisco, bought LopezGarcia Group Inc., a 250-person infrastructure firm based in Dallas, Texas., and acquired most of the assets of Tryck Nyman Hayes Inc., a 60-person engineering, landscape architecture, and surveying firm based
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 20, 2008
The American Institute of Architects' Architecture Billings Index (ABI) posted its highest score since January, but the numbers announced earlier today represented the sixth consecutive month with negative scores, indicating that the economic outlook for U.S. architecture firms remains bleak. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI shows an approximate 9- to 12-month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending.
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PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 19, 2008
Here in Massachusetts, the K-12 market has become a lightning rod for controversy. Prodigious cost overruns on certain high-profile school projects have left the local K-12 design community with some significant challenges and some outstanding opportunities. First, let’s discuss the challenges. Boston’s Big Dig is the national poster child for what can happen when there is shoddy oversight on publicly-funded projects.
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 14, 2008
For the past 20 years, my wife has worked for a firm that provides financial software products to the structured finance industry. It’s a great story – a couple of MIT guys working out of modest digs in 1985 are in 2008 the undisputed leaders in the cashflow modeling industry – managing a firm of over 100 people on three continents. So what’s their secret?
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 13, 2008
I heard a story today on National Public Radio about a handful of companies that are infiltrating the multibillion-dollar 411 market. As we all know, the phone companies today make a fortune on 411 calls (a service, by the way, that used to be free). These new directory assistance companies don’t charge users a fee. Rather, they charge advertisers to run short ads through the information retrieval process.
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 12, 2008
A couple of points of clarification on one of our posts last week from the Society for Marketing Professional Services Build Business conference in Denver: The remarks about former SMPS national president Ron Garikes did not come from current president Donna Corlew. They were part of Bruce Lea's acceptance speech for the Marketing Achievement Award.
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PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 8, 2008
Hello again from rainy Denver. We're about to head over to the big networking event at the Hard Rock Cafe, but we wanted to wrap up the 2008 Society for Marketing Professional Services Build Business national conference. Here's a quick look at last night's Awards Gala and today's happenings: * For the first time in my five trips to Build Business, last night's Awards Gala went off without even a hiccup.
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 8, 2008
Finally, we sat in on this afternoon's panel of industry magazine editors. The panel, which consisted of Building Design and Construction's Rob Cassidy, Architectural Record's Jane Kolleeny, Architecture magazine's Ned Cramer, and Engineering News-Record's Jan Tuchman, talked about what they looked for in deciding what to publish. For the most part, everything was fine, but there were a few things that stood out. * Cassidy took a shot at both AIA and the Associated General Contractors of America
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 7, 2008
Hello, everyone, from Denver, site of the 2008 Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Build Business national conference! We made it in successfully yesterday afternoon, although some of the folks flying in from Boston had their flights delayed late into the night and are likely going to be quite bleary-eyed this morning. The early buzz here is quite positive.
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 7, 2008
Interesting presentation this morning from opening keynote speaker and best-selling author Frans Johansson (The Medici Effect). We only caught the last portion of Johansson's talk, "The Medici Effect: Groundbreaking Innovation at the Intersection of Disciplines and Cultures," but we liked what we heard. Among Johansson's points: "Diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams quickly.
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PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 7, 2008
After Johansson's keynote, we listened to the first half of the "Economic Outlook and Hot Markets" breakout session. The highlight for us was hearing the numbers and statistics from McGraw-Hill Construction's Rusty Sherwood. Sherwood's presentation of McGraw-Hill Construction data on the AEC industry was clearly the reason many of those filled the room, as when he was done, people started leaving slowly.
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 7, 2008
Had an interesting chat this morning with an executive vice president from a very well-known A/E firm whose job it is to find possible acquisition targets and bring them to the president/CEO for the greenlight to close the deal. He says that while he has brought many deals to the table, his firm has not closed any deals in 2008. One of the problems facing many possible buyers, as the EVP told me, is that buyers see firm valuations dropping and are waiting for them to hit the floor before making
PSMJ Resources
AUGUST 5, 2008
My friend Anne Mullaney from Cutter Consortium sent me a blog item today titled 10 most outrageous lies on resumes. The article reports that while only 8% of employees admit to stretching the truth on their resumes, 49% of hiring managers have caught applicants in lies about their experience or qualifications, according to CareerBuilder.com. Some of the more outrageous claims included being a Mensa member and a professional baseball player.
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