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Behind the Build: Interview with Tim Kelleher, Operational Standards & Innovation Manager at Brinkman Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

BIM and VDC started as office-based specialty roles, but increasingly these tasks can take place outside the office on iPads, where work is actually occurring. We can go through it with our iPads and we’ve refined the process to the point that between 80 and 85 percent of our punch list is completed without typing.

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The ABCs of BYOD in Construction

Viewpoint Construction Technology

A couple of years ago, a colleague of mine lost his iPad after leaving it in a rental car while traveling. Fortunately, he had installed an app that cleared all of his personal information and locked down the iPad. If you anticipate potential problems and have a plan for how to address them, they’ll be smaller problems in the end.

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Empowering Project Management Professionals Through Technology—Part 2 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Here is a brief look at some technology advancements that are having a positive impact on collaborative project management: Online Plan Rooms —Technology has allowed contractors to avoid the hassle of taking plans and specs to reprographics providers and then dealing with keeping track of those paper plans—and any changes to them—during the project.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. We are at no loss for new technologies: iPads, tablets, netbooks, Droids, wireless everything, software, you name it! You have the right people on board; so now give them a solid game plan to make this new technology work. Tags accounting. accounting software. STRATEGY |.

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ProContractorProMX version 2.9 released in 2013

Construction Cost Estimating

This newly launched software provides complete solution towards equipment management to take off and estimating, payroll for reporting and analysis, project management, procurement management, job cost accounting and much more. A 3D rendering of your work also minimizes valuable mistakes in the planning phase of a job.

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BuildTools Provides the Solution for Managing Demanding Clients

Pro Builder

Because it’s all digital, you can see it on an iPad, you can put it up on the presentation screen. While other construction management software only allows for one client user account per project (with each additional user incurring the builder extra charges), BuildTools allows creation of unlimited user logins for any given project. .

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. At the time, we still couldn’t see plans or email pictures back and forth, but the fact that we could call in a change or talk to someone in the office took hours off of the work week. Is this future technology on an iPad? Tags accounting. accounting software. STRATEGY |.