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Hilti Unveils Semi-Autonomous Overhead Drilling Robot, Called Jaibot

Construction Junkie

Hilti , known for its wide selection of power tools and fastening applications for the commercial construction industry, recently took a step outside the box when they announced the release of an exoskeleton to help relieve the bodily toll overhead work takes on workers. courtesy of Hilti.

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Construction in the Metaverse – Is the Future Closer Than We Think?: Overhead in the Big Room

Autodesk Construction Cloud

People like to see things before they are real to give them a sense of certainty in what they are looking to invest in.” – Steve Rollo, National BIM/VDC Manager at Graham Construction & Engineering LP . a BIM/VDC manager. Overhead in the Big Room appeared first on Digital Builder. A slow build .

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Why You Should Make 4D Construction Sequencing ‘Business as Usual’ – and How To Do It

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Most of the time, 4D BIM is seen as an early stakeholder engagement tool. You create fancy animations and visualisations of the built assets coming to life, ultimately presenting a relatively low-fidelity model of the asset you’re creating. Your solution must accommodate technically-minded BIM users, managers, and ground teams.

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DebunkTheBIM: Breaking down the doors to construction modelling.

DebunkTheBIM

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Sunday, November 27, 2011. Breaking down the doors to construction modelling. Breaking down the doors to construction modelling.

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How Much Does Rework Really Cost Your Job and What Can You Do to Stop It?

Construction Junkie

Unsatisfied with stopping at direct cost, the researches at Navigant then turned their attention to overhead costs, which include managerial, supervisor, and site safety costs. With both the direct and indirect factors combined, it was determined that the median cost rework accounts for is 9% of the total project cost!

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Autodesk and AWS are Helping Construction Firms Gain Useful Insights from Their Data 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

They can also embed Amazon’s QuickSight tool in Partner Cards in Autodesk Build and BIM 360. In addition to documents, photos, and videos, project data also includes Computer-Aided-Design files (CAD), Building Information Models (BIM), and spatial data captured using various 3D scanning methods. The best part?

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4BT’s Best Value Job Order Contracting Solution

Job Order Contracting

For example, a UPB should reflect the local cost of construction minus contractor profit and overhead. That said, our construction cost data is organized using CSI MasterFormat and therefore could be easily integrated within appropriate technology applications. A partial listing of 4BT’s support services includes: JOC Program Development.

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