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Autodesk Build Brings Multi-Currency to Cost Management 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Managing the procurement process and properly tracking costs with international suppliers is critical to help mitigate risk. Imagine you are a USA based General Contractor who purchased material steel from Canada for $55K CAD due to steel shortages in the US. This process isn’t always easy. Real World Impact of This Feature .

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Construction Management and Quickbooks

Carol Hagen

They were the first to embrace the API’s available with Intuit and have managed to address everything but BIM and CAD needs for the small to mid-sized construction company. If integration is important, and you really want to avoid silos between finance, estimating and operations you’ll want to look at Corecon.

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Construction Scheduling Techniques

Construction Cost Estimating

This also helps in procuring necessary materials timely and thus providing assistance in completing the project within the stipulated time frame. Construction cost estimator should create project scheduling to assign dates to project activities and to match the resources of materials, equipment and labour for organized project procedure.

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BIM for FM

Job Order Contracting

Information and asset inventory can be viewed in a wide variety of ways depending upon user needs: displaying all the premises using pictures, 3D models, 2D CAD, detailed line items in list view, etc. In addition, many JOC contracts employ a negotiated source selection based upon best value procurement.

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Where will BIM / Efficient Life-cycle Management Supported by Digital Technology Be in Five Years

Building Information Management

As one might expect topics encompassed; design, procurement, policy and standards, technology, education and culture, success to date, areas for innovation, challenges, and barriers to adoption. A workshop with member from the BIM Academy, NBS, and various other was recently held to postulate on this topic.

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The chicken and the egg.Are software developers supposed to lead an industry or just serve it?

DebunkTheBIM

I state with conviction that the people I worked with in the late eighties and early nineties who operated early CAD packages (including DOS based AutoCAD) used the tools to better effect than the ones nowadays sitting in front of hispec-gaming machines armed with smart software. Expectations and budgets got scarily out of synch.

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Talent and Tech: The Keys to Unlocking Prefabrication Success 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection The Autodesk AEC Collection equips your prefab team with BIM and CAD tools backed by a cloud-based, common data environment. STRATUS STRATUS is a construction procurement, manufacturing, and coordination solution that integrates with Autodesk Build, Autodesk Docs, and BIM 360.