HardHatChat
DECEMBER 15, 2009
At the beginning of 2009, I don’t think anyone, including a national commercial general contractor like Englewood Construction, was prepared for the twists and turns that would face the commercial construction industry. As this year draws to a close, let’s look back on some of the highs and lows of what was a challenging year. High – Green building.
Constructonomics
DECEMBER 8, 2009
This was probably the best global warming cartoon I’ve seen. I caught it in yesterday’s USA today which I only read while I’m in the airport for some reason. There should be another guy asking, “But what if it’s true and we don’t do anything.” And then they’ll have a guy on the stage with a list of catastrophic events like ramped disease, hightened natural disasters, and cities under water.
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Carol Hagen
OCTOBER 30, 2009
Here we are 40 years after the Internet was first used to send a message and business is repeating history with their adoption rates to new technologies. . From a Robert Half Technology Survey and mentioned in Stowe Boyd’s blog post Enterprises Block Social Networks , 54% of US companies with over 100 employees have completely blocked sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
Cassell Construction Estimating
AUGUST 24, 2009
I’ve been asked by one of my industry software provider friends to write a piece on the current state of Building Information Modeling (BIM), as it relates to estimating in the here and now. The topic has become increasingly relevant as the software driving the standard is evolving quickly. (Or is it the demand that’s drving the software, fueling the growth?
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Construction Dive
AUGUST 29, 2009
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Natural Building
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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.
Green Home Design Architect
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
We’re greening up our new office by replacing the incandescent light bulbs with Earthmate energy saving bulbs. By using Earthmate bulbs, we will use an average of 75% less electricity, help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For instance, we replaced our 45 watt overhead bulbs with Earthmate 8-watt Dimmable Reflector Bulbs, which will save us about $61 and last up to 7 times longer than our standard light bulbs.
PSMJ Resources
OCTOBER 10, 2009
Interesting thing happened this week at PSMJ.for the last several years we've used the same company to do our credit card transaction processing. Their services are behind the scenes and about as commoditized as you can get. Other than the transaction statements they send to our bank, we never hear from them. We were approached by another transaction processing outfit that is going to deliver this commodity service for lower fees and they demonstrated how they can save us a couple thousand dolla
Stok
MAY 1, 2009
We are starting this weekend off with a new series. 12 Steps to a Successful LEED Project. In an effort to get updated with LEED 2009 we are offering up a document we’ve compiled to educate building owners and developers on how to organize their LEED project. We’ll start with the basics and describe in [.].
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HardHatChat
DECEMBER 8, 2009
Have you seen the 2009 Green Building Survey? If not, take a look at the recent issue of National Real Estate Investor or Retail Traffic as each includes a special supplement called “Why sustainability endures in the face of recession.”. I found the section about embracing energy retrofits especially timely as Englewood Construction recently completed our latest commercial sustainable construction project at Sloan Valve, a plumbing systems manufacturer in Franklin Park, Ill.
Constructonomics
DECEMBER 20, 2009
I think about blogs kind of like that pain in the ass cousin that always wants to go out and throw the baseball, but while you’d rather sit inside and throw back a few stiff ones, you also don’t want to ignore the kid and look like a jerk. Blogs have gotten to the point where, as much as some would like to discard them as amateur and hokey, they cannot be ignored.
Carol Hagen
DECEMBER 8, 2009
I finally found a definitive study from Business.com that devotes a portion of their research to my niche…the construction industry. In the 2009 B2B Social Media Benchmarking study published in November discussed such things as ” What do people consider to be the most useful social media resources for business information?” and ” How do B2B companies judge social media success?
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Cassell Construction Estimating
AUGUST 2, 2009
With the hot summer weather and long daylight hours here in the Pacific Northwest, the livin’ is easy. For those with overhead under control, it’s a good time to enjoy some outdoor activities and vacation time with family and friends. Between the slumping economy and the enticing lure of summer, we took some time off in July. Just before heading back East for a 4th of July break, I attended the AACE conference in Seattle, whose membership is mostly engineering-industrial firms.
Construction Dive
MARCH 4, 2009
Virtuous Code. "The three virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris" -- Larry Wall. Search. Skip to content. Home. About. Store. RubyTapas Screencasts. RubyTapas Info. Free Episodes. Episode List. RubyTapas FAQ. Subscriber Site. Pair-Program with Avdi. Contact. Writing Facades on Legacy Code. Posted on March 4, 2009 by Avdi Grimm.
Help Everybody Everyday
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
It’s not what you know it’s who you know. But very few people feel comfortable talking to strangers. In fact I remember mom and dad telling me something about strangers…not to talk to them. But over time, that tune changes. In business we are told to schmooze to network. But do you find networking at an event or conference terribly uncomfortable?
Natural Building
OCTOBER 21, 2009
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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Green Home Design Architect
MAY 18, 2009
One of our clients is building a lakefront cottage on their property in southern New Hampshire for their visiting children and grandchildren to use during the summer months. Some of their requirements included: Large porch for entertaining and to capture lake views Plenty of bedrooms for extended family A first-floor bedroom to address any future accessibility issues Plenty of storage for seasonal items Large enough common areas (including kitchen, dining, and living areas) for guests to feel co
PSMJ Resources
JUNE 16, 2009
I have been interviewing Circle of Excellence firms this month and asking the question, “where do you see the A/E industry headed over the next 3-5 years and beyond?” The first couple of COE firm execs I queried went directly to “there will be more design-build projects”. The opinion of these top execs is that a design firm has two choices: 1) develop a strategy to lead D-B projects that includes things like changing firm culture to accept the risks and educating clients on the merits of D-B pro
Julian Construction
DECEMBER 28, 2009
Julian Construction Blog. Shawn Kyles. Partner, Julian Construction. Contact Info. Our Services. Foundation Repair. Foundation Replacement. House Leveling. Earthquake Retrofitting or House Bolting. Social Media Links. Facebook. Twitter. « Julian Construction Offers House Leveling | Main. | 16 Year Anniversary of Northridge Earthquake - Preparing for the Future, Ensures a Safer Tomorrow » 12/28/2009.
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HardHatChat
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
With the shuttering of stores like Circuit City and Linens N’ Things, big box retailers looking to gain market share certainly have their choice of vacant store locations in prime markets and shopping centers. And depending on the condition of their new stores, the savings on retail construction costs to retrofit the space could be huge… if owners do their due diligence.
Constructonomics
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
I attended a pre-bid conference on Thursday November 19, 2009 at Towson University for a CM-at risk project for the r emodel of two residence halls on campus. The proposal will be for pre-construction and construction services. The design has not been completed, but there is a budget of $13.5 million for the construction of the project and they are pursuing LEED silver certification.
Carol Hagen
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
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.
Cassell Construction Estimating
JUNE 4, 2009
We’re fast-approaching the half-year point in the worst economy in nearly 80 years. Most of our clientele is doing better than the economy. We’ve had only one of our customers go out of business, not bad out of the roughly 50 companies we work with. (The one that didn’t make it was an anomaly- the president skipped the country, which really had nothing to do with the viability of the business.
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Construction Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Find this. Tyler Oderkirk's Blog. "Scared money don't[sic] make money" Home. Creating a local mirror of Ubuntu’s most popular packages. Posted by Tyler. November 4, 2009. The problem. You want to create local mirrors of the apt repositories that you use but you don’t have enough hard drive space to mirror every package.
Help Everybody Everyday
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Each RFP you see will give you instruction on what is to be in your proposal. Sometimes it will ask for what’s called a “management plan.” This can sometimes trip technical writers up, but writing a management plan isn’t really that hard. In fact, once you get used to writing them, you may end up feeling like a management plan should appear in all your proposals.
Natural Building
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
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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