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The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build -- Oracle's Pre-built Analytic Applications Versus Building a Custom Warehouse
Read about the pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse. (Oracle)...
Sponsored by: Oracle
Date: September 2007 |
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Selling In The Construction Industry
The U.S. construction industry is very vast and diverse. It includes a cross section of activities and people who ranges from electricians, plumbers etc. working all by t...
Company: Associated Content
Date: November 2006 |
Associated Content |
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Guidelines on Project Safety and Health
The construction industry, by its inherent nature, is susceptible to potentially dangerous conditions that affect safety of all personnel working on construction projects...
Company: Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America
Date: October 2005 |
Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America |
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Track Maintenance Management
The railway infrastructure itself is the largest investment in Railroads, and any improvement in focusing maintenance tasks can have a substantial influence on revenue, s...
Company: Bentley Systems
Date: August 2005 |
Bentley Systems |
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Terrorism, Security and the Proposed Brooklyn Atlantic Yards High Rise and Arena Development Project
This paper provides an overview of terrorism concerns with regard to Forest City Ratner's proposed Brooklyn Atlantic Yards (BAY) Development in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn...
Company: United States Department of Defense
Date: July 2005 |
United States Department of Defense |
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BIM's Return on Investment
With the advent of building information modeling (BIM), the building industry is coming to appreciate that technology can radically transform the process by which a build...
Company: Autodesk
Date: June 2005 |
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Transitioning to BIM
A formal implementation strategy is an essential component of any successful BIM deployment and must go well beyond a simple training & rollout schedule. It should addres...
Company: Autodesk
Date: June 2005 |
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Parametric Building Modeling: BIM's Foundation
This paper presents a brief explanation of parametric building modeling, providing several tests you can apply to determine if a building information modeling (BIM) solut...
Company: Autodesk
Date: June 2005 |
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Tapping BIM Using ODBC
The rapid adoption and success of building information modeling (BIM) has led to heightened interest in moving information from tools that support building information mo...
Company: Autodesk
Date: June 2005 |
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BIM Concept to Completion
The bulk of the time spent on a design project is in the detailed design and construction document phases of a project, but the building's general appearance and cost are...
Company: Autodesk
Date: June 2005 |
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Web Based Project Management Systems
The main reason why the construction sector has entered in Internet is the own potential of this market. In fact, the proportion of GNP of the construction market is one ...
Company: Centre de Supercomputacio de Catalunya
Date: May 2005 |
Centre de Supercomputacio de Catalunya |
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Is There a Person Missing From Your Building Project Team - The Interoperability Consultant?
This paper discusses the importance of an interoperability consultant in a building project team. An interoperability consultant can 'glue' together the fragmented roles,...
Company: Newforma
Date: May 2005 |
Newforma |
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Building Information Modeling Two Years Later - Huge Potential, Some Success and Several Limitations
Since the great Building Information Modeling (BIM) debate facilitated by Jerry Laiserin in April 2003 much has transpired with regard to building information modeling. P...
Company: Newforma
Date: May 2005 |
Newforma |
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Managing the Front-End: How Project Managers Shape Business Strategy and Manage Project Definition
There has long been lots of evidence that the front-end of projects is where things can go badly wrong and, conversely, where there is the best chance of positively influ...
Company: University College London
Date: April 2005 |
University College London |
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Facilitating Interoperability in the Building Industry - A Different Approach to Using IFCs
The International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) has pioneered an international technical effort by industry leaders in 19 countries to define a single building info...
Company: Newforma
Date: April 2005 |
Newforma |
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On Site With Form-a-Drain
Form-A-Drain works much like the dimensional lumber and metal footing forms. But unlike traditional lumber or metal forms, which must be stripped once the footings are po...
Company: Hanley Wood
Date: March 2005 |
Hanley Wood |
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Repairing Fire Damage
The paper states that like any remodeling project, the first step in fire reconstruction involves selective demolition. It start out by sorting through rooms full of char...
Company: Hanley Wood
Date: March 2005 |
Hanley Wood |
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The Industry Needs a Common Langauge
The need for the construction industry to share a common vocabulary is essential to start capturing best practices at an industry-wide level. Information technology will ...
Company: McGraw-Hill Companies
Date: February 2005 |
McGraw-Hill Companies |
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Narrow Wall Bracing Without Hold-Downs for Use in a Fully Sheathed House
Tests show Narrow Wall Bracing Method (a portal-frame structure) performs comparably to existing code permitted bracing for residential structures when built on rigid fou...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: February 2005 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Choosing Laminate Flooring
The paper highlights that in order to avoid callbacks, use the right grade and protect it against wetting. The paper in general informs about laminate flooring. There are...
Company: Hanley Wood
Date: February 2005 |
Hanley Wood |
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Pro?t Maximization Through Schedule Integration
To maximize project profits, managers need to have knowledge of jobsite activities that may cause a project to be late or cost more than planned. This information needs t...
Company: Associated Builders And Contractors
Date: February 2005 |
Associated Builders And Contractors |
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Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study: Project Management Plan
This paper) describes the overall management structure for the conduct of the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) at the Ashland/NSP Lakefront Superfund site...
Company: URS
Date: February 2005 |
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In the Open: How Design Can Protect Privacy
This paper, examines acoustic, visual and data privacy in all sorts of nonresidential settings. With its combination of overview, interview insights, case studies and too...
Company: American Society of Interior Designers
Date: January 2005 |
American Society of Interior Designers |
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Introduction to GenerativeComponents: A Parametric and Associative Design System for Architecture, Building Engineering and Digital Fabrication
This white paper describes a parametric and associative design system for architecture, building engineering, and digital fabrication. Parametric design is equally applic...
Company: Bentley Systems
Date: January 2005 |
Bentley Systems |
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Corus Construction & Industrial: The Design of Steel Footbridges
Footbridges are needed where a separate pathway has to be provided for people to cross traffic flows or some physical obstacle, such as a river. The loads they carry are,...
Company: Corus Group
Date: January 2005 |
Corus Group |
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The Changing Structure of the Home Remodeling Industry: Improving America's Housing 2005
The home improvement industry has not seen a major downturn since the early 1990s. Remodeling expenditures by homeowners and rental property owners totaled $233 billion i...
Company: Harvard University
Date: January 2005 |
Harvard University |
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Fire-Rated Systems: Design/Construction Guide
Planning and designing buildings that provide good fire protection, don't cost too much to build or insure, meet the codes, make the best use of materials, and strike a b...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: January 2005 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Construction Firms Are Managing Insurance Risks and Reducing Costs With Their Own Captive Insurance Companies
Purchasing insurance continues to be difficult and expensive for construction firms. While the risks contractors face every day in their businesses may not have changed m...
Company: Innovative Captive Strategies
Date: January 2005 |
Innovative Captive Strategies |
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Fortified Builders Guide
Fortified, for Safer Living is a program designed to help bring deserved recognition to builders who know the value of a practical, yet strongly built and disaster resist...
Company: Institute for Business & Home Safety
Date: January 2005 |
Institute for Business & Home Safety |
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A Skyline Air Bridge
Simplicity requires greater imagination in the modern world of advanced technologies. The air bridge at Gatwick Airport satisfies the requirements of the airport, the air...
Company: The Royal Academy of Engineering
Date: January 2005 |
The Royal Academy of Engineering |
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Minimize Nail Pops
Nail "pop" or "backout" describes the protrusion of nail heads above the surface some time after they were originally driven into the wood. This sometimes happens when gr...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: January 2005 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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County of Riverside Community Health Agency Department of Environmental Health: Accepted Flooring Materials
This paper elaborates and provides information on improvement in home flooring. When determining what type of flooring to install in a food facility, one needs to think a...
Company: Department of Environmental Health
Date: January 2005 |
Department of Environmental Health |
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Construction and Real Estate
The results of a survey with regard to fixed costs show that there is still considerable potential for optimization. In interior fitting, in particular, the differences a...
Company: UBS
Date: January 2005 |
UBS |
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A Portal Frame With Hold Downs for Wall Bracing or Engineered Applications
Conventional light-frame construction provisions in the model codes are explicitly prescribed for "conventional" construction as defined therein. There is no engineering ...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: January 2005 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Oil Paints: Going, Going, Gone?
New regulations that significantly reduce the allowable content of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in most paints and stains took effect on January 1 in the states of N...
Company: Hanley Wood
Date: January 2005 |
Hanley Wood |
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The Strategic Impact of Web-Based Communication on Costs, Schedule, Scope and Quality Across the Design and Construction Life Cycle
Recent industry studies show conclusively that poor communication between companies is the root cause of risk in the design and construction process, which results in cos...
Company: Emerging Solutions
Date: January 2005 |
Emerging Solutions |
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Build as One: A Practice Methodology for the Building Industry
The building industry has long delivered projects in a very fragmented value chain. This fragmentation divides the various project stakeholders, which include multiple de...
Company: Bentley Systems
Date: January 2005 |
Bentley Systems |
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Proper Installation of APA Rated Sheathing for Roof Applications
Like all construction materials, APA Rated Sheathing panels must be installed correctly to insure best performance. Nearly all roof sheathing complaints are due to incorr...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: December 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Glulam Design Properties and Lay-up Combinations
Glued laminated timbers (glulam) are manufactured by end joining individual pieces of dimension lumber or boards together with structural adhesives to create long length ...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: December 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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A Control Architecture for Robotic Excavation in Construction
This article presents a hybrid control architecture developed for robotic excavation. The lower-level controllers are designed using a combination of sliding mode control...
Company: University of Sydney
Date: December 2004 |
University of Sydney |
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Diaphragms and Shear Walls: Design/Construction Guide
Wood is the right choice for a host of construction applications. It is the earth's natural, energy efficient and renewable building material. Engineered wood is a better...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: December 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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