Autodesk Teams With Leading Building Industry Publishers: Sweet's/McGraw-Hill, R.S. Means, MSA/Southam And Wiley; Providing comprehensive digital information to the largest sector of the U.S. economy.SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1995--Reshaping the definition of electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. to streamline doing business in the $470-billion(a) building design and construction industry, Autodesk, Inc., the leading supplier of design software to that industry, today announced it has entered into relationships with four major North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. publishers to create a single, electronic resource for building components, equipment and construction materials, comprehensive references and cost information. The publishers working with Autodesk's Data Publishing group on titles for the new Design and Construction Library are: o Sweet's Group, a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, New York; o R.S. Means Co., Inc., Kingston, Mass., a unit of the Southam Construction Information Network; o Manufacturers' Survey Associates, Inc. (MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. ), Atlanta, and its affiliate, Southam Construction Information Network; and o John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (Please see attached profiles.) These industry-leading publishers, competitors in many ways, have chosen to work with Autodesk to produce intelligent electronic libraries, linked to AutoCAD, that will not only provide manufacturers and distributors a new way to communicate with prospective customers, but also give architects and designers a new way to manipulate the mountains of data critical to the design process and integrate it into their designs. "Autodesk led the software industry when it published the first intelligent digital content last March with our Mechanical Library. Based on that success, we are now focusing on what we believe is the world's largest untapped market for electronic information and commerce -- the building design and construction industry," said James D. D'Arezzo, vice president of the Autodesk Data Management Market Group. "Because architects and designers already have much of their data in electronic format, being able to integrate cost data and manufacturers' information directly into their drawings and documents will be a great boost in their productivity. Only in the financial industry do you find a similar critical mass of electronic tools and complexity of relationships," said Blair B. LaCorte, director and general manager of the Autodesk Data Publishing group. "The larger opportunity of bringing together buyers and sellers is why we have joined with the major publishers in the industry to produce the Autodesk Design and Construction Library," LaCorte added. Unlike most electronic publishing ventures, the new titles will not be static references filled with data merely to be looked-up and read. The new titles will include intelligent representations of objects, such as windows from specific manufacturers or lifecycle cost-estimating data, that will include information about the actual products. The intelligent information can be inserted into the drawings and documents and be carried through the life of the design, saving hundreds of work-hours and possible liability risks. (Intelligent information carries with it supplementary data that describe pertinent details about the item, such as manufacturer, specifications, dimensions, costs or building code and standard compliance.) The first titles in the library will focus on manufacturers' product information, construction cost data, and other design decision support content that will help architects, engineers, and building contractors building contractor n → contratista m/f de obras building contractor n → entrepreneur m (en bâtiment) building contractor deliver more cost-efficient buildings on time and within budget. The information will be delivered with an easy-to-use common user-interface. The Autodesk Design and Construction Library titles are the third series of titles in Autodesk's thriving six-month-old data publishing business which has been chartered to develop CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and online channels for electronic information. The titles will be available as subscriptions, with initial release planned for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. in mid-1996. About the company Autodesk's Data Management Market Group develops and markets software products that allow customers to organize, access, share and revise design-related information. The Group's products include Autodesk WorkCenter, the company's design team solution for technical document and workflow management; AutoCAD Data Extension, which provides decision support capabilities by enabling users to manipulate data within technical drawings; Autodesk View, a document viewing and redlining Identifying text that has been changed in a word processing document by displaying it in a special color, for example. It allows the original author of the text or other users to see ongoing revisions. The term comes from manual editing where a red pen is used to mark up the pages. tool; and Autodesk Data Publishing, the company's provider of electronic libraries of design information. Autodesk is the world's leading supplier of PC and UNIX-based design software and PC multimedia tools. The company's 2D and 3D products and data management tools are used in many industries for architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , mechanical design, film-making, videography vid·e·og·ra·phy n. The art or practice of using a video camera. vid  e·og and geographic information systems geographic information system (GIS)Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to . The fourth largest PC software company in the world, Autodesk has three million customers in 118 countries. Autodesk products are sold through Autodesk Systems Centers, Dealers and Distributors worldwide. For more information on Autodesk, please call 415-507-5000, type GO ADESK on CompuServe, or visit the World Wide Web site at http://www.autodesk.com. -0- Autodesk Design and Construction Library Sweet's Group, a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies Editorial Contact: Craig Soderstrom, Sweet's Group, 616-454-0000 Sweet's Group is the building-product information division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a leading information services See Information Systems. organization serving worldwide markets in education, business, industry, the professions, and government. Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies provides information and analysis in multiple media through its rich portfolio of valuable brands. Sweet's Group provides architectural, contracting, engineering, and owner offices worldwide with complete product information for selection and specification of building products. Sweet's is part of The McGraw-Hill Companies Construction Information Group, which includes F.W. Dodge, Architectural Record, and Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies. , and the Construction News Publishing Network. The Sweet's Group can be accessed on the Internet at http://www.sweets.com. R.S. Means Co., Inc. Editorial Contact: Greg Wurtz, R.S. Means, 617-585-7880, x655 or Perry Sells, R.S. Means, 617-585-7880, x601 For over fifty years, R.S. Means has been the leading publisher of current, comprehensive information on construction material, labor and equipment costs in the U.S. and Canada. R.S. Means is the standard resource for construction cost information. The company's cost publications, professional reference books, seminars and consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" are used by 250,000 design, construction and facility management professionals each year. Means is a member of the Southam Construction Information Network companies whose proficiencies combine to allow for a powerful, expense-saving information source in the construction industry. For more information about R.S. Means, visit the World Wide Web site at http://www.rsmeans.com. MSA/Southam Editorial Contact: Durwood Snead, MSA, Inc., 770-903-1028 MSA, Inc. (Manufacturers' Survey Associates, Inc.), as well as the other Southam Construction Information Network affiliates -- Architects' First Source, Construction Market Data and R.S. Means (see above) -- are recognized information leaders in the commercial construction industry. With their highly skilled technical analysts, MSA examines thousands of commercial building plans each month and provides detailed information from them to manufacturers of building products, their representatives and distributors. John Wiley & Sons Media Contact: Susan Spilka, John Wiley & Sons, 212-850-6147 Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is an independent, global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in professional and consumer books and subscription services, scientific and technical books and journals, and textbooks and educational materials for colleges and universities. Wiley's distinguished architecture publishing programs is known worldwide for its classics like Ramsey and Sleeper's "Architectural Graphics Standards," "The Parker-Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides," and Edward Allen's "Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods." The company has publishing, marketing and distribution centers in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. Wiley can also be accessed on the Internet at http://www.wiley.com. -0- Note to Editors: (a) Source: New construction alone was valued at $470 billion or about 9% of GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. in 1993, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. U.S. Census Bureau Noun 1. Census Bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Bureau of the Census statistics. Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, AutoCAD Data Extension and AutoCAD are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk WorkCenter is a trademark of Autodesk, Inc. CompuServe is a registered trademark of H & R Block. All other brand names, products names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. CONTACT: Autodesk Inc., San Rafael Julie Brown
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