Your iPad app for construction just got better

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
Hundreds of people in the construction industry interested [...]

Did you buy an iPad or iPad 3G for your construction project?

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 [...]

Balanced Scorecard Approach to Enterprise Quality Management

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 [...]

Project Engineer Video Testimonial from Dallas Stadium

As mentioned in an earlier post, I was recently at Dallas Stadium to gather information and conduct field interviews for an upcoming case study with customer Manhattan Construction.  In the process, I captured some great jobsite video footage and testimonial. A big thanks to Andrew Reese, Project Engineer at Manhattan Construction for his contributions.

In this [...]

What I learned in Vegas (at Autodesk University 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 [...]

New Vela Systems Blog for Enterprise Construction Field Management

Welcome to our construction field mobility blog where we'll share our perspectives on construction field software trends, ideas and best practices. We’re a team with extensive experience in software and construction and we’re passionate about fundamentally improving how construction is executed in the field and managed in the back office.

There is constant innovation in field [...]