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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. [...] Congratulations to Shawn Pressley of Hill International and Laura Handler of Tocci Building Corporation for their recent recognition in the Building Design and Construction (BD&C) Top 40 Under 40 list. We’ve worked extensively with both and congratulate them on some well deserved recognition in the industry! While they are both very different people (see the photos [...] Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Paper-based as-built documentation is insanity. The digital asset is here. Recently, leading owners, who put a high volume of construction in place on an annual basis, are leveraging the power of Enterprise Field Management solutions and structured Quality Programs, to [...] 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, [...] I’ve been thinking about the evolution of hardware technology and how Tablet PCs are changing the game in construction today. Especially in the area of construction project delivery out in the field – at the point of construction. Technology, in particular mobile communications and personal computing-related hardware, has been helping to streamline construction operations and project [...] I was recently given a research paper by our great partners at Motion Computing (makers of Tablet PCs). The VDC Research Paper called Mobile & Wireless Solutions In Construction: Driving Improved Decision Making, Speed And Scalability, provides an overview of the challenges and possibilities for mobile technologies in construction. It’s really worth a read and [...] 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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