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Three Easy Steps to Building a Commercial Building

Wolgast Corporation

Three-Phases to Design-Build Construction: Preliminary Design and Estimating Detailed Construction Drawings and Bidding Construction Step One/Phase I – Preliminary Design and Estimating In this First Step or Phase our Architect develops plans based on a needs analysis meeting with the building owner and representatives for a nominal fee.

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Paper vs. Clunky Software vs. Integrated Construction Solution

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Communication and information sharing across the entire organization is vital for staying productive and completing projects on time and under-budget with minimal mistakes. Equipment and materials cost that is written on paper often doesn’t reach a system that is tracking job costs — leading to over budgeting and spending.

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The Latest from Autodesk Build: 28 Product Updates 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Cost Management | Grouped Summary Level Budget Report* . Meeting Minutes | Mobile Enhancements . Members on mobile now see two improved workflows, Location tab and QR scanner, for accessing data on Locations. . Web and Mobile users can ‘@’ mention a specific user in the comment field of forms. Project Management

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Alternative Project Delivery for Construction – Benefits, Tools, and Resources

Job Order Contracting

Additionally, the knowledge of contractors is leveraged in design phase, drawing on their experiences to improve the proposed solution. These methods allow for greater team-based solution exploration on an early and ongoing basis and create added efficiencies. Benefits of Alternative Project Delivery.

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What’s New with Autodesk Construction Cloud? 35+ Releases You Should Know  

Autodesk Construction Cloud

When creating or updating an issue from the Issues log, web and mobile users can now place that issue on an existing model, sheet, or file – or – remove its placement. Cost Management | Grouped Summary Level Budget Report* . Web and Mobile users can ‘@’ mention a specific user in the comment field of forms.

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GenieBelt: Updated and Ready for the Next Challenge

Lets Build

Budget Portfolio. Budget Portfolio is a great tool when you want to see budget across all your projects. It has the same function with Drilldown , but for Budget. If users enter budget data into the project (by putting it for each task), then they will be able to get a month-by-month breakdown of how much is due.

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Residential projects: 5 mistakes project managers don’t know they are making

Lets Build

As shown by recent surveys, if you manage to deliver small tasks at least 80% on schedule and without compromising quality, you will most likely deliver both on time and on budget. . The same way you currently do it with your drawings and Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive. However, the truth is much different.