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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 [...] On St. Patrick’s day in March, nine vendors presented to a live audience of 50 or so industry professionals as a part of the COBie2 Challenge at the NFMT conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The results of this challenge were recently posted to the COBie site. COBie Challenge participants ready to demonstrate compliance live. Why is [...] Greetings from Austin, Texas, site of the FIATECH conference. This is our fourth year in a row attending this well-run event. Approximately 250 construction technology enthusiasts have been here for 3 days attending various educational sessions and keynotes following the Fiatech “roadmap” for innovation in construction. Preliminary Survey Results on Barriers and Benefits to Field Mobility [...] The online and paper based publication Constructech describes itself as “the construction industry advocate focused on the technology needs of the construction professional dedicated to driving technology initiatives forward.” I’ve been spending some time on Constructech recently – so I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on that and why it’s been valuable. 1. [...] 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 [...] Here are five dynamics in healthcare construction today-- which may be readily apparent to design and construction professionals and healthcare owners and providers already well versed in healthcare construction. This broad sector of the commercial construction market includes a wide array of building and facility types: hospitals, medical centers, treatment centers, outpatient facilities, nursing facilities, [...] Entryway to Autodesk University 2009 Hard to believe it has been a few weeks since Autodesk University. Here were some of the takeaways I had from the conference: Conferences are down but not out: Attendance was down but not by as much as I’ve seen at other conferences – AU attendance went from 9,000 last year [...] |
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