DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF A CAD MANAGER

Supervises a group of CADD Operators by directing technical engineering assignments and coordinating project staffing assignments. Schedule the activities of Drafting section.

Standardizing the daily activities and ensuring the implementation of Quality Procedures in the CADD section.

Improvement in the quality of work produced by CADD Operators. Monitors productivity and technical proficiency of the assigned personnel. Maintain the latest drafting standards and provide necessary training to CADD personnel.

Provide feedback to Management regarding requirement of new software or modification of existing software.

Complete all drafting assignments on schedule and within man-hour and cost budgets.

Completes the most complex and difficult designs and layouts for complete systems and components of a project. Assignments typically involve design elements for which there may be no clearly established precedents and require anticipation of problems at the outset in order to provide appropriate solutions.

Performs front-end layout and design of complex systems and equipment applicable to the respective discipline.

Ensures compliance with required specifications, tolerances, safety factors, and client requirements.

Performs specialized design computations and analysis within a given discipline.

Performs interdisciplinary reviews and provides coordination of data to ensure a compatible design.

Understands and applies commonly used company design standards and methods. May assist in the establishment or revision of guidelines and standards.

Reviews supplier data and supplier/manufacturer drawings, as required.

May provide direction to a team of checking personnel, ensuring the mathematical accuracy of the drawings produced.

Collaborates with Engineers and other engineering disciplines to ensure quality of design.

Assists in training lower-level Designers in various procedures.

India's top most 50 Architects who involved them in quality of design!!!

Michael Schumacher Gifted $7M Island By Crown Prince Of Dubai At Dubai World


As if his very public bromance with former Formula 1 driver, Michael Schumacher, wasn’t awkward enough already, Dubai’s crown prince Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has taken it up a notch. Apparently, after Schumacher completed his final Grand Prix at Interlagos, Sheik Makotoum presented Michael Schumacher with his own $7 million dollar private island. Located off the coast of Jumeirah, Dubai, Schumi’s plot of land is located on one of the many small, private island’s situated in a cluster known as “The World”. Created by real estate group, Al Nakheel Properties, all 300 of The World’s island’s have been specifically placed to resemble a map of the world when viewed from above. As indicated the photos below, Michael Schumacher’s little home-away-from-home rests in the balmy southern hemisphere atop of “Antarctica.”
So, I guess that $50 Auto Zone gift card the local track gave you for winning the amateur division two months ago is looking pretty lame right about now, huh?

May God bless the Japanese people!!!

ARCHITECTURAL FEE GUIDELINES FOR INDIA


Construction Cost:   The cost of construction includes the cost of the construction of the building, site improvements, and all fixed and installed equipment. It does not include Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E), testing, surveys, permits, land cost, studies, contingencies, or A&E fees.

PROJECT TYPES:
Group A  -  MORE THAN AVERAGE COMPLEXITY PROJECTS: New complex stand-alone facilities such as residential,commercial,special purpose classrooms, laboratory classrooms, libraries, auditoriums,  and food service facilities.
Group B - AVERAGE COMPLEXITY PROJECTS: Total facilities such as new elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, or large additions to existing facilities.
Group C - LESS THAN AVERAGE COMPLEXITY PROJECTS: New less complex stand-alone facilities such as warehouses, maintenance facilities, bus barns, offices, and storage facilities or any repetitive design use of a facility.
Group D - REPAIRS AND RENOVATIONS: Miscellaneous repairs and renovations, alterations to facilities, code corrective work or upgrades, system replacements, etc.

FEE GUIDELINE MULTIPLIER
Construction Cost:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Rs 0 to  Rs 10,00,000
8.8%
7.9%
7.2%
8.9%
Rs 10,00,000 to  Rs 40,00,000
7.8% - 8.8%
7.2% - 7.9%
6.6% - 7.2%
8.3% - 8.9%
Rs 40,00,000 to  Rs 1,00,00,000
7.2% - 7.8%
6.7% - 7.2%
6.2% - 6.6%
7.8% - 8.3%
Rs 1,00,00,000 to Rs 4,00,00,000
6.3% - 7.2%
6.0% - 6.7%
5.7% - 6.2%
7.2% - 7.8%
Rs 4,00,00,000 to Rs 10,00,00,000
6.0% - 6.3%
5.5% - 6.0%
5.3% - 5.7%
6.8% - 7.2%
Rs 10,00,00,000 to Rs 20,00,00,000
5.5% - 6.0%
5.5% - 6.0%
5.0% - 5.3%
5.7% - 6.8%
Rs 20,00,00,000 and above
5.5% - 6.0%
5.5% - 6.0%
4.3% to 5.0%
Up to 6.0%

FEE FORMULA:

Estimated Construction Cost _____________  x  Multiplier  ______ %  =  Fee

Oscar Winners 2011 List


Best Original Song


Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey

Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater

Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong

Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Best Film Editing


Andrew Weisblum

Pamela Martin

Jon Harris

Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter

Best Visual Effects


Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas & Sean Phillips

Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz & Nicolas Aithadi

Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski & Joe Farrell

Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley & Peter Bebb

Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright & Daniel Sudick

Best Costume Design


Colleen Atwood

Antonella Cannarozzi

Jenny Beavan

Sandy Powell

Mary Zophres

Best Makeup


Adrien Morot

Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk & Yolanda Toussieng

Rick Baker & Dave Elsey

Best Sound Editing


Richard King

Tom Myers & Michael Silvers

Gwendolyn Yates Whittle & Addison Teague

Skip Lievsay & Craig Berkey

Mark P. Stoeckinger

Best Sound Mixing


Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo & Ed Novick

Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen & John Midgley

Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan & William Sarokin

Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick & Mark Weingarten

Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff & Peter F. Kurland

Best Foreign Language Film


Mexico

Greece

Best Cinematography


Matthew Libatique

Wally Pfister

Jeff Cronenweth

Roger Deakins

Best Art Direction


Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara

Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan

Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat

Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr