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What's new in Contractor Cost Estimating Software?
Al De Wachter, President of ICS
(Independent Control Specialists Inc)
This will be the third major estimating software package release for Facility Automation Contractors in our 12+ years of existence. And while we have other programs, Concerto Suite is undeniably our flagship. All the 'good things' in SOCC were retained.
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BuilConn™
2003 Update
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc.
Almost all of the integrators, contractors and dealers we have spoken to feel that an event focused on the integration of all of the systems found in buildings is desperately needed.
On-line
Training - The Key to Understanding Internet Digital Control - November
John J. "Jack" Mc Gowan, CEM
Newsweek Magazine did a feature article two years ago and predicted that 90% of all four year Universities would offer Online course by 2002. By all accounts that prediction is true, and just one example of the demand for this approach is that the University of Phoenix has 130,000 students enrolled in Online coursework!
Web vs Face-to-Face Education - November
Thomas M. Kenna, P.E.,
Director, TAC Learning Americas
The fundamentals of education have not changed that much, but the tools we use have. In particular, the delivery method has changed very significantly, especially with the advent of the web and other digital means. By the way, most educator's refer to web-based training as "distance learning", and face-to-face education, as you have called it, as live, or instructor-based education.
Research and Development in the Controls Industry - November
Anno Scholten, eStuctures, Inc
Unlike many other industries, there are currently no forums or independent channels to which researchers working in the building systems industry can present their latest work. This typically means that, at best, research engineers' only opportunity is to present their initiatives to internal members of the corporation for which they work.
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