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Bluebeam Tip: Visualizing Project Percentage Completion with Your Project Owner

Carol Hagen

How to General Contractors help a project Owner Visualize the Project’s Percentage of Completion? I’ve seen many spreadsheets, reports, thousands of photos and AIA Schedule of Values all attempting to convey to the owner just how far along their project is. The problem is most owners need visuals.

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Drones take site assessments to new heights

BD+C

discusses strategies for using visualization and reality capture. While photos and drawings can offer a small glimpse of an overall site, it can be challenging to visualize and understand how all elements relate to one another. Our presentation, “ Enhanced Visualization & Reality Capture from a Bird’s Eye View ” will be at 4 p.m.

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Transforming the entry experience with biophilic design

BD+C

Transforming the entry experience with biophilic design 0 qpurcell Wed, 10/04/2023 - 13:44 Biophilic Design Vessel Architecture & Design's Cassandra Wallace, AIA, NCARB, explores how incorporating biophilic design elements and dynamic lighting can transform a seemingly cavernous entry space into a warm and inviting focal point.

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Payment Applications 101: A Guide to Pay Apps in Construction

Fieldwire

It’s also known as AIA billing since the American Institute of Architects (AIA) produces one of the most commonly used pay applications. If using an AIA pay application form, their continuation sheet takes the place of the SOV. Receipts : If you’ve purchased materials and already paid the invoices, include the receipts.

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Connecting it all: Role of joints as a primary component

Construction Specifier

Off, AIA and Robert Fraguada, Associate AIA Buildings are often perceived to be static objects, existing rigidly within the space of their own footprints. They have a ubiquitous presence within a building’s visual language and physical fabric, yet are often overlooked or even fundamentally misunderstood. By Richard W.

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New toolkit helps architect achieve high-performance buildings

BD+C

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) is releasing a new tool that can help architecture firms design high-performance building. . Additionally, it can help start a dialogue that facilitates a more deeply integrated, visually rich design solution.

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Shadow box design: To vent or not to vent [AIA course]

BD+C

Shadow boxes are generally used for one of two aesthetic reasons: to maintain the visual continuity of a curtain wall system as it crosses from vision glass to spandrel areas; or to give the spandrels the quality of having visual depth. .

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