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The Digital Builder's Guide to Preconstruction Collaboration

Construction Business Owner

Challenges With Traditional Delivery Models. Delivery models. Traditional delivery models just don’t encourage teams to work together from the get-go. It uses a multiparty agreement to define responsibilities, roles, compensation and rights. One of the biggest challenges to preconstruction collaboration?

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With Inflation, How Can We Help Construction Costs Stay Down?

Fieldwire

Building Information Modeling Building information modeling (BIM) can be your saving grace. The technology’s three-dimensional building models are full of valuable information about the structure’s geometry, allowing you to identify the smallest mistakes. BIM can help you reduce that number to zero for all your projects.

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6 Ways the COVID-19 crisis will reshape the construction industry

Lets Build

It is now apparent how critical it is to provide compensation and support to employees as strict community quarantines are placed. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments had to issue new guidelines on compensation, including new filing deadlines, work-time reductions, and rules on employee leaves, to account for the lockdown.

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Approaching Concrete Longevity in Corrosive Water Environments

Construction Specifier

Service life predictions using modeling software. Designers of two large desalination plants in Israel had to compensate for this high salinity level when constructing jack-pipes to feed seawater into the plant and discharge brine back to the sea. Corrosive concrete water handling environments.

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How to Recession-Proof Your Firm: Best Practices for Construction Business Leaders

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The right software simplifies design processes and improves communication while giving teams access to accurate project data in real time. Standardize your procedures and ensure everyone uses the same methodologies, templates, and software. Enter construction technology. To that end, see that you have a solid estimation process.

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20 construction industry trends to watch in 2020

Building Radar

Project management software: smart tools for fast teams 4. Forecasts: How the construction industry in Germany will develop in 2020 Software in the construction industry 1. CRM software is designed to increase sales and retain customers, while ERP systems are designed to reduce costs. IoT: building with wireless intelligence 5.

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2024 Construction Trends: 30+ Experts Share Insight

Autodesk Construction Cloud

By leveraging 3D models in the field, teams can walk the projects, and ensure constructability and maintainability without having to wait for a designer to be brought on site. It is a must that we rapidly invest in continued automation and robotic technologies to compensate for the labor shortage.