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Build It: Blueprinter Redux - Follow Up

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. Laquo; Blueprinter Redux. Sound and Its Affect on the Built Environment ». June 22, 2011. Blueprinter Redux - Follow Up. As a follow-up to yesterdays post about making the word blueprint cool again, I saw this article in the San Francisco Chronicle talking about how the public much prefers the word hospital over the marketing-speak term medical center which is so in use these days.  Here are some excerpts:. The survey.found that U&#46...

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Build It: Reprographics

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. March 07, 2016. What goes around, comes around. There was a mountain of disparate and disconnected documents, cabinets and binders full of paper, no true organization, various forms of media between paper, blueprints, sepias, plans, and digital documents.  It was a true needle in a stack of needles moment for me. Fast forward 7 years, and I am now in the Owner position, wishing I had called that Salesperson 7 years ago to get to work scan...

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Build It: Development

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. November 03, 2014. Death by a Thousand Cuts. For example, a seemingly simple wall demo requires (usually) the services of an electrician, demo company, drywaller, painter, flooring, acoustical tiling, and perhaps HVAC or fire alarm.  What you saw as a few hours of some dudes knocking down a wall just got more complicated and thereby more expensive. I have also tried to take this into account as I look at new jobs.  I try to be v...If I wa...

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Build It: A change

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. Laquo; A Tribute to Japanese Engineering. The Doctor is in.or at least should be ». March 27, 2011. For those of you who are fairly regular viewers of this blog, youll have noticed that I changed up the overall style of the blog. I updated the style to reflect a more Real Estate Development-centric theme, because that coincides with another change. Thanks very much for sticking with me through the first part of this journey, and I hope yo...

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Build It: The Intertubes

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. Laquo; Are you an Architect? A Tribute to Japanese Engineering ». March 07, 2011. Yet another comic from the Joy of Tech folks.  Cloud is such a buzzword these days and I think this is a great take on the trend. Posted at 10:03 AM. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed. It should work if it isnt to windy. Posted by: Dale Carlin March 18, 2011 at 09:03 AM. The comments to this entry are closed. On Value of time.

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Build It: Archives

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. Subscribe to this blog's feed. On Awesome Hoover Dam Construction Project. Built on your lot homes. On Efficiency in Construction = more construction. On Deadly data overload in Reprographics. On Deadly data overload in Reprographics. On Poor Jobsite Communication May Have Caused Death. On Value of time. Patrick Renvoisé: Neuromarketing: Is There a 'Buy Button' in the Brain? Selling to the Old Brain for Instant Success.

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Build It: General

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. October 23, 2012. Architect Barbie: Poorly designed. I am apparently a little behind on this, but last year, Mattel came out with a new Barbie doll in their series of I Can Be. Barbies showcasing different career paths for Barbie.  The specific doll in question here is Architect Barbie. . For a different purpose like putting its clothes on a different Barbie doll and forgetting about it. Its also been noted by some that Barbies footwear i...

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Build It

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. Hello and welcome to the Build It blog.  I am a former Reprographics (aka blueprinting) salesperson turned Development and Construction Project Manager. . I write about Development and Construction, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. I hope you enjoy the content and please feel free to leave comments or email me using the link to the right. Thanks for stopping by! Posted at 08:34 AM. March 07, 2016. What goes around, comes around.

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Build It: Construction

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. November 03, 2014. Death by a Thousand Cuts. For example, a seemingly simple wall demo requires (usually) the services of an electrician, demo company, drywaller, painter, flooring, acoustical tiling, and perhaps HVAC or fire alarm.  What you saw as a few hours of some dudes knocking down a wall just got more complicated and thereby more expensive. I have also tried to take this into account as I look at new jobs.  I try to be v...If I wa...

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Build It: Death by a Thousand Cuts

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News and thoughts on the Real Estate Development and Construction. Laquo; Architect Barbie: Poorly designed. What goes around, comes around ». November 03, 2014. Death by a Thousand Cuts. For example, a seemingly simple wall demo requires (usually) the services of an electrician, demo company, drywaller, painter, flooring, acoustical tiling, and perhaps HVAC or fire alarm.  What you saw as a few hours of some dudes knocking down a wall just got more complicated and thereby more expensive. I have also tri...