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Does a BIM Requirement Stop You From Bidding?

Carol Hagen

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become an industry standard on complex construction projects. As more Construction owners reap the benefits of BIM, more projects add a modeling component. Get Educated on BIM. Consider Outsourcing while You’re Learning BIM. So what is a smaller subcontractor to do?

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NAWIC Block Kids: The Future of Construction

Carol Hagen

The Greater Phoenix Chapter recently held their Block Kids competition at the Encanto Elecmentary School with over 50 young builders creatively assembling project models (done without BIM) using 100 building blocks, 1 sheet of construction paper, a piece of tin foil, a rock and a string.

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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In traveling to Phoenix-based construction technology firm Nox Innovations, he explores firsthand how builders are constructing for extreme environments here and gleaning lessons about resilience that could be extended beyond planet Earth.

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Webinars & Construction Events in September 2022

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We also a three great webinars throughout the month covering Autodesk Build for general contractors, preconstruction and prefabrication workflows from customers successfully using BIM and Assemble, and unpacking how to get the most out of your cost management tech. Powering Preconstruction and Prefabrication Workflows with BIM and Assemble.

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Augmented Reality Now: How 3D Visualization is Changing the Construction Industry

Carol Hagen

I met James in Phoenix last year when he was the speaker for a construction association dinner meeting and we have been friends (and admirers of each other) ever since. The devices, combined with their data, allow the user to take a BIM ( [link] ) model and render it in 3D on top of real world images.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Chris Walker, VDC Project Manager at PENTA Building Group

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Our home base is in Las Vegas, where I am, though we also have offices in Phoenix, Arizona, and Southern California, where we’ve expanded. As for me, I’m in the VDC department, specializing in construction management, BIM, and construction technology. We’ve done arenas and ballparks, as well.

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E-Discovery in Construction Litigation

Carol Hagen

As a panelist for the Arizona Bar Association luncheon yesterday along with Kathy Kozen, Esq, Director of Discovery Services for D4 E-Discovery and Russell Yurk, Esq, Jennings Haug and Cunningham, a crowd of 80+ lawyers filled the room at the Phoenix Country Club. BIM files are exceedingly large.