Skanska USA Building & Vela Systems Win Fiatech CETI Award!

Congratulations to our friends and colleagues at Skanska USA Building and to the Vela Systems team for winning a coveted 2011 Fiatech CETI: Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation Award in the Intelligent and Automated Construction Job Site category for the James B. Hunt Jr. Library project.

The uniting goal at Fiatech is to “…make step [...]

10 Tips to Create Construction Videos on a Jobsite

Over the years, we’ve put together many videos of our customers using our construction software on the jobsite with iPads and other devices.  And, like I mentioned in my last blog post about how customers are now creating and submitting their own construction YouTube videos, I thought I’d provide some tips and the top 10 [...]

Skanska’s Metlife Stadium Wins AGC Aon Build America Award

I would like to extend my sincerest congratulations to Skanska and the project stakeholders for winning The Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America/Aon Build America Award 2011, in the Design-Build New category, for the New Meadowlands Stadium project, now called Metlife Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Skanska leveraged a Field BIM solution on the New [...]

Construction Firms Come to YouTube: Videos for Construction

Since 2006, we've been creating and videos showing our construction field software in action with customers and then posting them to YouTube.  And it's obvious that we’re not alone. According to a survey, 100 million video clips are viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours.  At [...]

The Best Picture of an iPad on a Construction Jobsite

…is going to be on the Vela Systems Facebook Wall page soon!

We’re asking all of our users and anyone else using an iPad on a construction jobsite to post their best picture to our wall. Each month (for the next three months) we will choose two winners who will each get a brand new Otterbox® [...]