Construction Dive
MARCH 6, 2007
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Natural Building
MARCH 16, 2007
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.
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C-School
MARCH 31, 2007
If you follow this blog, you know that I post frequently on the ACE Mentor program – this program matches high school students with architecture, construction, and engineering professionals. I volunteer with the ACE Mentoring Program’s San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. Their are several groups within the SF Chapter and I specifically participate in the Peninsula Group.
CAD Shack
MARCH 30, 2007
Kyle B. has created a Revit MEP Wish List. There is not a lot of action on it yet, but I see one of my current favorites "Riser Diagrams" seems well represented. Take the first step in getting what you want from Revit MEP by. ah asking for it. I'll also add this link to my side bar. All of my sidebar links to Autodesk pages have been updated in consideration of Autodesk's web site reorganization.
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Do
MARCH 17, 2007
As part of the new Philadelphia Revit Users Group we will be hosting a presentation by the makers of E-Specs on Monday evening April 9th. This will not be a sales presentation by any resellers, rather it is meant to be an informational gathering. I encourage all Revit users (arch/struct/MEP) to come out. Also anyone interested in Revit and some of the powerful uses of the BIM model should come too.
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Revit OpEd
MARCH 5, 2007
When working in a Central or Local file you will find that you cannot finish a stair sketch if you sketch Risers first then Boundaries. This assumes you used the Riser and Boundary tools instead of the Run tool. Strange but it makes no difference in a stand alone project but seems to matter a great deal in a central/local file. The workaround at this time is to sketch your stair Boundary completely first then add the Risers.
Natural Building
MARCH 12, 2007
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.
C-School
MARCH 24, 2007
The following clips are taken from the article, “Firms get more family friendly” from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Keith Myers of the Young Group was in a jam. His St. Louis-based company had a $3 million subcontracting job on two 615-megawatt coal-fired power plants that Bechtel Corp. is building in Racine, Wis. — and no one to ramrod it. —-.
CAD Shack
MARCH 19, 2007
Last month Autodesk and IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions) issued a press release announcing that they are ".working together to provide robust building performance analysis capabilities to the Revit platform through a work flow between Autodesk Revit Systems, Autodesk ’s BIM design and documentation software for mechanical/electrical/plumbing ( MEP ) engineering, and the IES software suite. " This partnership will give Revit MEP the ability to perform "thermal analysis, load calculations,
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Do
MARCH 13, 2007
Recently (well in the last 2 months) I had the opportunity to go to a one day conference in New York City titled: Smart Geometry 2007. The conference was partially sponsored by Bentley Systems, makers of Microstation and other products. (Now I know my blog's title uses Revit, but really I'm interested in all things BIM). The conference was focused on the use of some relatively new software that has been built on top of Bentley's Microstation platform: "Smart Geometry".
Revit Beginners
MARCH 23, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Friday, March 23, 2007. The Data Manager. With the implementation of Revit we, like many offices, have had to assign people to develop Revit standards and content that is specific to our office.
C-School
MARCH 18, 2007
Check out this article entitled, “Building Trades to Engage ACE Mentor Program” Article can found below: The Building & Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO has partnered with the ACE Mentor Program in an effort to encourage high school students to consider a career in the construction industry. The ACE Mentor Program serves high school youth who are exploring careers in Architecture, Construction, or Engineering.
C-School
MARCH 17, 2007
According to this the article below, Florida International University has been selected to provide its vision of the house of the future. A brief excerpt from the article follows: “Miami, FL (February 27, 2007) – Florida International University announced today its distinct honor of representing the United States as part of the Future House Community project in Beijing, China, to be located near the site of the 2008 Olympic Summer Games.
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C-School
MARCH 17, 2007
The following summary from CMAA Newsbriefs highlights a Wall Street Journal article which points out an important fact – many skills that are difficult to measure, so-called “soft skills”, such as listening, leadership, communication, and teamwork, are critical to ones career growth. Many college-level construction programs do a great job teaching technical skills such as construction scheduling, estimating, and contracting.
C-School
MARCH 17, 2007
Check out the video below from “A Student Project for ACE Mentor Cumberland Chapter New Jersey 2006″
C-School
MARCH 11, 2007
I use a feed reader to keep up to date with several blogs on my favorite topics. A feed reader notifies you when one of your favorite blogs has a new posting. Below you will find a post from the folks at Lifehacker which leads you to a great introductory video on feed readers (specifically Google’s version of this tool): Have you been curious about Google Reader but weren’t sure how to get started?
C-School
MARCH 11, 2007
The main readers of the C-School Blog are construction management students and construction industry professionals that are looking for construction management opportunities in academia – both of these groups can benefit from the the following post on resume writing. This post is from “Rands in Repose” and is geared towards the tech field; but, many of the observations hold true for the construction industry.
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C-School
MARCH 10, 2007
The article entitled, “ Construction management students take home awards” highlights Chico State’s performance at the recent ASC Student Construction Competition held in Reno, NV. According to the article: During the competition, students are given 16 hours to map out the process a construction firm would go through — work schedules, bids and other tasks — on an actual construction project, then present their solution to a team of expert judges.
C-School
MARCH 10, 2007
Per the article entitled, “ BYU Construction Management Wins in East and West” BYU’s CM Program has had a busy and productive student competition season. A portion of the article can be found below: Construction management students went to two competitions this month: The Associate School of Construction [ASC] regional student competition in Reno, Nev., and the International Home Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla.
Do
MARCH 9, 2007
Yes I know, I've been AWOL for quite sometime. quite busy here are my firm, so that is how life goes sometimes. Recently I've been working on several project, news doors, re-visiting standardized casework and updating our project template. Today I want to focus on a very minor change I've made to our project template. I've added two shared parameters, one called "view classification" to which it is assinged views, and the other "sheet classification".
C-School
MARCH 4, 2007
Below you will find a draft article that I am writing for Construction Management Association of America’s (CMAA) Northern California Chapter Newsletter. I wanted to share it here and request any feedback that the readers of this blog might want to offer up. The article is a little lengthy when compared to the other posts; but, I hope you can give it a read: Where Will We Find The Next Generation of Construction Managers?
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C-School
MARCH 3, 2007
If you follow this blog, you will notice that my posting frequency has fallen off quite a bit recently. Instead of posting to the blog, I have been spending my free time studying for the LEED V2.2 AP Test. From what I hear, the test was revised over the past few months and the new test is pretty difficult to pass. To date, my studying has consisted of reading the LEED-NC V2.2 Reference Guide.
Natural Building
MARCH 6, 2007
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.
Revit Beginners
MARCH 6, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Tuesday, March 06, 2007. Open, Sesame. When you place an existing door or window in an existing wall and then demo the door or window in the new construction phase Revit automatically places an infill wall to replace the door or window.
Revit Beginners
MARCH 5, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Monday, March 05, 2007. Filtering View Specific Content. Do you want to know if Text Backgrounds used in a view are opaque or transparent?
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Revit Beginners
MARCH 23, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Friday, March 23, 2007. Revit API Development. Matt Mason of Avatech Solutions has been actively posting new developments in the next Revit API release.
Revit Beginners
MARCH 21, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Evolution News. Take a look around and youll find that Revit model data is being exported to other applications for many uses.
Revit Beginners
MARCH 4, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Sunday, March 04, 2007. SpecifiCAD beta for Revit 9.1 released. CADalytic Media has released a beta version of SpecifiCAD.
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