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It’s been less than three weeks since, in a past article, I introduced the first construction application for the iPad. So much has changed already in that short time, such as: Over 3 million iPads have been sold, making it by far the most popular device of its kind In the book Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business, Philip B. Crosby presents the following ten true-or-false statements, to test the reader’s understanding of the concept of Zero Defects or “ZD.” As Crosby wittingly remarks, as [...] Point-of-construction data feeds quality management metrics. In The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action, authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton assert that measuring business strategy needs to be an integrated balance of both financial and non-financial measures. Generally, it is the finanicial measures that are the well-established and well-adopted metrics, relatively easy to [...] Vela Mobile: iPad is here! Its official! The first construction application optimized for the iPad is now available on the App Store and ready for download. It's designed for use on the jobsite of virtually any kind of construction project. Read more about the capabilities and download it to your iPad now. Check [...] Both the iPad and iPad 3G work great for lots of things you need to do on your construction project like tracking issues, accessing documents or running a QA/QC checklist. For $629.00, I bought the iPad 3G + WiFi. Here’s what happened when I opened the box containing my iPad last week: The box (left) is [...] In the seminal book The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action, authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton emphasize a critical, but in many cases overlooked, point from the internal business process perspective. Kaplan and Norton highlight that “…the process of deriving objectives and measures for the internal-business-process represents one of the sharpest distinctions [...] Today, I’m blogging about part 1 in a new series on data ownership in the collaborative and cooperative environment of database-driven construction management for the field, at the point of construction… As Vela software customers all share a synchronized and centralized hosted database, structured by role-based access and permissions, from time to time, design and [...] At Vela Systems, we’ve been working with contractors and owners to move from ad-hoc “project-by-project” approaches to quality, to putting cross-project quality systems in place. One recent example is with customer Turner Construction. You can read today’s press release or case study for the full story and details. When talking about this with other customers and [...] The presentations at January’s AGC’s Winter 2010 BIMForum “Model-Based Buildings: A model’s life both during and after the project” in Phoenix covered the real-world use of BIM (Building Information Models) from the design phase through fabrication. They included CNC and an owner’s use of BIM for ongoing maintenance. There was one particularly interesting presentation that [...] |
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