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What Is a Change Order?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As Construction Law Today explains, “a Change Order is a bilateral agreement between parties to the contract–an owner and prime contractor, prime contractor and subcontractor, two or more subcontractors–to change the contract. A change order represents a mutual agreement to change the work, schedule, price, or other term of the contract.

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What’s the difference between RFIs, Submittals and Specifications?

Fieldwire

In construction, a Request For Information (RFI) seeks the clarification of plans, drawings, specifications, and agreements. The construction RFI is a formal written process in which parties, such as the contractor and designer, clarify information gaps in construction documents.

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Moving from Design-Build, DB, to Integrated Project Delivery, IPD

Building Information Management

The biggest problem with this model is that when you have an architect prepare bridging documents, you’ve just made all the big decisions without the input of the building team. Through downstream agreements, the major team players can also agree to waive certain liabilities against each other. Owners, this is bad for you.

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Autodesk Construction Champions 2023: 25 People Powering the Future of Construction 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

His leadership helped Messer adopt and roll out Autodesk products, fundamentally enhancing their business model. Emmanuel has also led the integration between VDC and other departments through VDC education, with the goal of improving the understanding of a project’s complexity through model utilization and additional VDC services.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Building information modeling (BIM) is beginning to fundamentally change the building industry in a very positive way. Dee Cramer is an industry leader in 3D CAD and Building Information Modeling. Steve received his Certificate of Management – Building Information Modeling from the AGC in 2011. Brittany Giel is a Ph.D.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Building information modeling (BIM) is beginning to fundamentally change the building industry in a very positive way. Dee Cramer is an industry leader in 3D CAD and Building Information Modeling. Steve received his Certificate of Management – Building Information Modeling from the AGC in 2011. Brittany Giel is a Ph.D.

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AU 2023 Day 2 Recap: Key Highlights from the Construction Industry Forum

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Lalith then introduced Autodesk Construction Cloud’s new Model Viewer for mobile devices, now in private beta. Lalith then shared some exciting new features being added to Autodesk Construction Cloud, such as advanced filters for models and 3D progress tracking. “Simplicity. Performance. Reliability.