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Design-Build gets sweeter: Expanding a Hershey plant with a high-tech approach

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Over the next few months, Korte’s civil consultant TWM and Hershey’s in-house Building Information Modeling (BIM) team surveyed their existing structure, then shared these 3D point clouds with our team. Whenever a change order landed in Alex’s inbox, he would confer with Darlene. Here, we had both. And did both.

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Trends in Construction: 3 Ways Technology is Changing Commercial Construction

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We’re also seeing the impact of exciting new developments like BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology, which gives us a 3-D picture of everything going on in a job site to better anticipate construction conflicts and issues.

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iPhone and iPad Applications Best Suited for Construction Professionals

Construction Cost Estimating

GoBIM : With GOBIM application you can navigate 3D BIM models and their associated data easily as BIM applications are widely used in the construction industry today. The size of the model handled by GoBIM depends on three factors- number of parameters, number of triangles and number of materials.

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The Construction Software Toolbox Part 1: Why It Pays To Work With A Tech-Savvy Commercial Contractor

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Finally, using good accounting software allows commercial contractors to create and access historical data, which helps us provide accurate pricing models for just about anything we’ll run into on a commercial construction project. This data is crucial in providing conceptual construction budgets for clients.

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Some Best Construction Apps In Recent Times

Construction Cost Estimating

GOBIM application creates the scope to operate 3D BIM models and their related data on the basis of the factors like number of triangles, number of parameters, and number of materials. SmartBidNet will come up with available information to build bid projects easily and complete it in scheduled time.

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For Construction Technology Manager Alex Ayres, it’s not just about technology

The Korte Company

The Korte Company was already using modeling software, but Alex saw an opportunity to use new technologies for even better outcomes — especially when it came to scheduling and information sharing. “It But organization on a construction project is invaluable — and software like Procore, HoloBuilder, Navisworks and P6 make that possible.