article thumbnail

TN Named Best Business Climate, NC No. 1 In Growth Potential

Business Facilities

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An They’re always ahead of the curve.”.

article thumbnail

Saudi Arabia Aims to Construct World's Tallest Building

Construction Cost Estimating

Phase one, will start being completely taking shape in 2018 because the tower will hopefully finish in 2018. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Published By Arka Roy www.quantity-takeoff.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

iPad 45
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Empowering Project Management Professionals Through Technology—Part 2 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The Associated General Contractors of America noted in a May 2018 report that construction employment is at its highest level in a decade , with more than 250,000 jobs added over the past year. According to the Commercial Construction Index, compiled for the first quarter of 2018 by the USG Corporation and the U.S.

article thumbnail

Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An Louisiana, no. million over the next five years. territories.

article thumbnail

Behind the Build: Interview with Justin Lipsey, VDC Technical Leader, SSOE

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Justin started his construction career as a plumbing engineer, and in 2018, proactively made the transition to a more tech-focused role in VDC. I purchased an iPad app, watched a few YouTube videos, and was able to create over 20 customized training videos for BIM 360.

BIM 52
article thumbnail

Get the Full, Behind the Scenes Interview with 2018 Viewpoint Technology Award Winner Hatzel & Buehler

Viewpoint Construction Technology

We can get that service ticket signed in the field on an iPad and we can get that bill out the same day or the next as opposed to the lag time that we had coming through waiting for the paperwork to be signed and come into the office. Then it had to get to somebody’s billing desk and they had to enter it all into the system.

Viewpoint 169
article thumbnail

Technology Increases Productivity by a Quarter on UK Rail Projects

Autodesk Construction Cloud

They were equipped with five iPads to use on-site and from January 2018 and the project moved to an entirely digital way of working using BIM 360. I could look it up on the iPad and say with complete confidence, ‘It’s two meters from that manhole.’ If I went on-site and someone asked me, ‘Where’s that water main?’