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  • Re: Inviting / contacting specialty contractors and vendors

    I've always been partial to building my own form from Excel, or Access, to develop the invitation to bid, and connecting it to my contact list in Outlook. Most of the project management software systems that I've looked at (and I've looked at quite a few over the years) work in this manner, and do the grunt work for you at a price. Since...
  • Re: Exotic steel stud shapes

    Hello Bud, Thanks for taking the time to read the Oak Ridge report. That is pretty dense information. How we break it down for architects is that the test showed up to a 16% improvement in r-value for that wall assembly by simply using our 1/2" deep stud design --and we would like to point out that we used high-performance framing of 24" oc...
    Posted to Division 9 - Finishes (Forum) by ThermaChannel on 07-02-2009
  • Inviting / contacting specialty contractors and vendors

    I was looking for a place to try to start this conversation and I don't blog so I figured division 1 would have to do. Several of us here have been asked to find out about recent developments in software used to solicit specialty contractors and vendors. It seems that our software which generates faxes is failing. I was always a proponent of our...
    Posted to Division 1 - General Requirements (Forum) by budmay on 07-02-2009
  • Re: Exotic steel stud shapes

    I received your information and I do appreciate it. I forwarded it to one of several Architects that I am working with in the area. I have been to the Oak Ridge site and read their information on the tests that they performed. If I was an engineer I could probably decipher and use some of the information that they provide. Most of the Architects (at...
    Posted to Division 9 - Finishes (Forum) by budmay on 07-02-2009

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