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6 Barriers to BIM Adoption in the Housing Industry

Pro Builder

BIM software yields several benefits, such as automating some aspects of the design process, enhancing collaboration, and delivering modern digital visualization features. . Some construction sectors are adopting BIM but relying on CAD tools, which isn’t a universal practice. Cost Cutting and Risk Avoidance . Limited Expertise.

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Construction Management and Quickbooks

Carol Hagen

Whether you are a residential or commercial general contractor, Quickbooks is the most popular accounting software serving the construction industry in the United States. There’s even handy charts to visually see your construction project’s financial health.

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Level Up Design and Coordination Workflows with Accessible Reality Capture 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

For starters, you’re dealing with an old structure without CAD files and limited documentation. Being able to track progress on-site provides a visual account of what was done in each phase of the project using laser scan snapshots. It’s an exciting project, but it also comes with a host of challenges.

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BIM and the Estimator

Cassell Construction Estimating

Because you need to own the drawings to have sufficient access to the CAD objects, or be on a truly team-oriented project that shares its resources openly among all project players. Sage Timberline requires a third-party interface, such as Innovaya’s Visual Estimating to import the data. Why Design-Build?

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Top 5 Amazing Free Measurement App

Civil Engi

If the mm ruler app scale is visually shrunken/stretched. Even taking the curvature of the earth’s surface into account when measuring. However, The payable features, Import and Export from/to text/zip file, Dxf (cad file) with Local Coordinate System. Moreover, The length of the measured object is shown on the Ruler app screen.

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How to plan your warehouse layout

The Korte Company

Whether you make crude plans in pencil on graph paper or use digital floor planning tools like CAD Pro , SmartDraw or LucidChart , turning ideas into visual assets you can share and discuss with stakeholders will help you (and us) hit the ground running. It may help to do some floorplan sketching of your own.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

Pro Builder

Alexis Udine , 37, Account Supervisor, Group Two Advertising, Philadelphia. Account Supervisor. Accomplishments • Worked her way up from account manager to senior account manager and then account supervisor for customer relationships. Karla Tuten, 29. Owner, Creative Director. Tuten Creative. Philadelphia. .