By Josh Kanner, on May 10th, 2010
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 [...]
By Josh Kanner, on February 24th, 2010
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 [...]
By Adam Omansky A.M.ASCE, on February 17th, 2010
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 [...]
By Peter Billante, on January 22nd, 2010
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 [...]
By Adam Omansky A.M.ASCE, on January 19th, 2010
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, [...]
By Josh Kanner, on January 6th, 2010
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 [...]
By Josh Kanner, on December 28th, 2009
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 [...]