Construction Dive

JUNE 26, 2019

A virtual design approach saved more than 30% on labor costs and cut 50% from the schedule on a complex, fast-turnaround piping project.

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Schedule Kansas BIM Design 122

Lets Build

JULY 15, 2022

Construction design software is a necessity in today’s digital landscape, giving industry professionals an easier way to create blueprints and drawings of new designs. However, the construction design software market is overflowing with options—what works for one company might not be ideal for yours.

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Software Software Design AutoCAD 148

HardHatChat

MARCH 19, 2012

While the construction best practices we shared might be common knowledge with our experienced Chicago restaurant construction clients, I realize novice restaurant owners or entrepreneurs opening fast-casual franchise restaurants may not know how to create a successful restaurant construction schedule. Simple, right? Chuck Taylor.

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Construction Specifier

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Regan, PE Providing a comfortable and attractive interior space for the building’s inhabitants is a primary concern of the design team. Submittals process During construction, the first place the design team will review information for the project is during the submittal process.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 31, 2021

A all stakeholders to determine the schedule, cost, schedule and outcome. ATTN: Facilities Owners, Builders AEs, and Designers appeared first on 4BT. I’d like to learn the details! AN open, transparent, and integrated environment enables teams to leverage expertise, recognize, prioritize and solve problems.

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Civil Lead

JANUARY 23, 2020

What is Bar Bending Schedule (BBS)? Bar bending schedule is a list of reinforcement bars in a tabular form giving the particulars of bars, the shape of bending with sketches, length of each, total length and total weight. Usually, for each type of RCC work a schedule of bars is usually prepared. Lintel, Slab - 0.7 Beams - 1.0

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Schedule Drawings Site Estimating 95

Lean Construction

MAY 24, 2021

That's the phrase I most often hear when architects and engineers respond to how long some design deliverable will take to complete. When pushed, you may get a response, but it won't be accurate. Contractors have a go-to answer, too, "about two weeks."

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Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Design Structure Matrix (DSM). Design Workshop or Big Room. Pull Scheduling/Planning. Target Value Design (TVD). Virtual Design Construction (VDC). Work Structuring and Scheduling. Benchmarking. Concurrent Engineering (CE). Conference Management (CM). Daily clustering/huddle meeting. Detailed Briefing.

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Construction Visualization Schedule Contract 222

The Constructor

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The bar bending schedule(BBS) of an R.C.C footing provides the reinforcement details and the total steel quantity required for the footing.

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Schedule Estimating Foundation Concrete 100

Construction Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Discover how the emergence of design-build project delivery has led to shorter project delivery times and reduced scheduling costs.

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Design Contract Schedule 119

CivilJungle

MARCH 30, 2020

What Is Bar Bending Schedule? Bar bending is calculating steel quantity that calls bar bending schedule. The preparation of bar bending schedules is one of the final stages in any concrete design following the preparation and detailing of the working drawings.

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Schedule Drawings Concrete Design 59

Wolgast Corporation

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Whether it is a healthcare practice, manufacturing facility, office building, auto dealership, or restaurant, or if it is new construction or a remodel, we use the steps or phases of Design-Build construction to break down the commercial construction process most efficiently for our clients.

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Commercial Drawings Bidding Budgeting 127

ENR Construction

MAY 2, 2022

Conversations with executives of ENR’s 2022 Top 500 Design Firms reveal inflation, staffing, supply shortages and schedule delays are top of mind.

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Design Schedule 69

BD+C

MARCH 17, 2024

5 criteria to optimize medical office design 0 rcassidy Sun, 03/17/2024 - 09:30 Healthcare Facilities Healthcare designers need to consider privacy, separate areas for practitioners, natural light, outdoor spaces, and thoughtful selection of materials for medical office buildings.

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Office Design AIA Visualization 59

Construction Equipment

MARCH 21, 2018

The Associated Press reports the FIU pedestrian bridge that collapsed and killed six people was behind schedule and $2.6 million over budget, in part because of a key change in the design and placement of one of its support towers.

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Schedule Miami Budgeting Budget 62

Construction Cost Estimating

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

In simple words, a project schedule is a kind of document that gathers all the important works so that project can be delivered on time. Besides that, it also provides automated email alerts so that team members can be aware about their scheduled tasks’ time and manager will know when someone’s availability has changed.

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BD+C

JANUARY 2, 2024

5 ways mass timber will reshape the design of life sciences facilities Here are five reasons why it has become increasingly evident that mass timber is ready to shape the future of laboratory spaces. Here are five reasons why. The market-ready prototyp[es consider an urban sigte in one of Boston's leading life sciences clusters.

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Design Sustainability Materials Boston 113

ENR Construction

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD.

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Schedule Engineering Safety Design 90

Wolgast Corporation

MARCH 19, 2024

We typically suggest scheduling a Treasury appointment nine months (or no less than six months) prior to the intended election date. The goal with the Treasury date is to fit within regular Board of Education meeting dates so that special Board meetings do not need to be scheduled. Constructability What Does Constructability Mean?

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These components include schedule, cost, operations, and more. Essentially, 3D BIM lets you create and visualize the building's design. Scheduling 4D BIM adds the dimension of time to the 3D BIM model. Let's take a look at each of these dimensions more closely. What is 3D BIM?: What is 4D BIM?: What is 5D BIM?: What is 7D BIM?:

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BIM Modeling Schedule Visualization 98

Cassell Construction Estimating

AUGUST 25, 2012

She was scheduled to attend a seminar in Honolulu entitled P6 Scheduling Requirements for NAVFAC projects. Saito provided some excellent perspective on his department’s scheduling requirements. In other words, keep the schedule reasonably concise, and expand within this particular report instead. It makes sense.

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The Korte Company

JANUARY 19, 2024

Multi-phased Design-Build. To manage the complexity of the project, we relied on a phased work schedule over two years. We also needed to adapt to shifting project parameters without blowing the budget or schedule. When the design phase kicked off in January 2022, Alex first focused on keeping key components clash-free.

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Design Modeling BIM Consulting 52

Lean Construction

MAY 27, 2020

By nature, the design process is complex; it often involves thousands of decisions, sometimes over a period of many years, with numerous interdependencies, and under a highly uncertain environment.

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Design Budgeting Budget Schedule 52

BD+C

AUGUST 16, 2019

The process of designing and constructing buildings can be an overwhelmingly complex task. Add to that a client’s need for faster design solutions and architects must continually look to remove friction points that limit the potential of the owner’s design intent—with blazing speed.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 5, 2021

JOC Programs can provide significant benefit when designed and managed properly. JOC, when properly used, is an integrated LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery method in which the owner provides leadership and oversight within a collaborative, mutually beneficial relationship with design/builders.

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Contract Consulting Schedule Procurement 157

The Korte Company

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Innovation in the ways these critical spaces are designed and built has been just as explosive as demand for new capacity of the structures themselves. Construction schedules have always been tight, and that trend will continue. Construction schedules have always been tight, and that trend will continue. The successful builders?

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Design Construction Los Angeles Inventory 52

ENR Construction

MARCH 31, 2018

Most transmission projects of any significance face risks to schedules and budgets at every step—from feasibility, siting, permitting and design to construction and operation.

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Budgeting Budget Schedule Risk 61

Construction Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Architects Design and plan construction projects, considering both aesthetic and functional aspects. Engineers (Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical) Civil engineers focus on the design and maintenance of infrastructure. Structural engineers design and analyze structures for stability and safety.

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Construction Project Management Electrical Safety 331

Stok

JUNE 27, 2018

That foundation is a detailed schedule and budget, created and owned by the Project Manager, with input from consultants and contractors, and approved by the Client. To start, here are key considerations to take when creating the Master Schedule, prioritized by stok’s Project Managers : 1. This consideration is too often overlooked.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 30, 2020

More than six months after design work was halted on its signature cable-stayed main spans, construction of the new Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi, Texas, has pressed ahead, even as uncertainties shroud its ultimate cost and completion schedule.

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Design Texas Maine Schedule 69

Construction Cost Estimating

JULY 29, 2013

Some key players within the construction community like architects, engineers, public and private owners, construction managers, contractors , subcontractors, and designers will find the event very useful for them to get acquainted with various “tips and tricks” which can be applied to scheduling their construction projects.

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Schedule Construction Change Orders Estimating 69

Construction Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

The system provides total design freedom and greater certainty in cost, schedule, and outcomes… Source The post How DIRTT creates dynamic spaces that adapt and evolve in response to changing needs appeared first on Construction Today.

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Schedule Innovation Design Construction 97

CivilJungle

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What Is Bar Bending Schedule? Bar bending is calculating of steel quantity that calls bar bending schedule. The preparation of bar bending schedules is one of the final stages in any concrete design following the preparation and detailing of the working drawings.

Schedule 52

Schedule Drawings Concrete Design 52

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 14, 2019

Any real property owner and their service providers can leverage collaborative project delivery to increase efficiency and reduce design, construction, and life-cycle costs. Traditional construction project delivery methods, such as design-bid-build, are inefficient, antagonistic, and the cause of waste and generally poor outcomes.

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Construction Dive

APRIL 2, 2015

In the March 20 issue of ConstructionPro Week, we reported on changes in the February 2015 update of the “Project Schedule” clause of The Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS). THis week we look at the first of two other schedule specification updates - UFGS-01 32 16.00

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a recent BioPhorum report on modular design in biopharmaceutical manufacturing points out, one of the drawbacks of establishing a new production facility—particularly for a brand new product — is the time it takes to go from design to operation. BioPhorm highlights the importance of standardisation in any modular design.

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Design Products BIM Forecasting 52

Construction Cost Estimating

JANUARY 8, 2014

Construction cost estimator should create project scheduling to assign dates to project activities and to match the resources of materials, equipment and labour for organized project procedure. Proper scheduling eliminates problems that can arise due to production limitation.

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