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The True Value of 3D Modeling for Home Builders

Pro Builder

The True Value of 3D Modeling for Home Builders. More than a marketing tool, 3D modeling can save time and money by providing greater accuracy. For an increasing number of them, this transition entails moving from two-dimensional (2D) drawings to three-dimensional (3D) digital modeling. The Path to 3D Modeling.

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What Are As Built Drawings?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

If a picture can speak a thousand words, in a project, as-built drawings can speak a thousand construction processes. But in all seriousness, with the hundreds and thousands of steps and documents needed to complete just one project, as-builts might be overlooked for their importance. Shop drawing changes. Key Takeaways.

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More about design drawings and model planning

Construction Cost Estimating

Plans are like a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams that are used to narrate a place or object or to communicate building or fabrication instructions which are drawn or printed on paper and can take the form of a digital file. So these design drawings can be categorized as: • Feasibility studies. Concept drawings.

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What’s the difference between RFIs, Submittals and Specifications?

Fieldwire

In construction, a Request For Information (RFI) seeks the clarification of plans, drawings, specifications, and agreements. The construction RFI is a formal written process in which parties, such as the contractor and designer, clarify information gaps in construction documents.

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Job Order Contract Facilities Management Software

Job Order Contracting

Locate your property using Google Maps and immediately obtain all the associated construction and operational information, documents, correspondences, drawings, etc. Any document type and all of the most common viewers for any type of browser can be handled. Building Information Modeling – BIM. Document Management.

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3 Ways Lean Design Can Help Home Builders Recover Margins

Pro Builder

Skyrocketing material and labor costs followed by sharp interest rate increases have worsened the current housing affordability crisis. To this day, I have yet to walk into a house that doesn’t have considerable excess lumber that can easily and safely be eliminated. Lean Design Construction Documents. Todd Hallett, AIA.

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Graham's post: BIM the Predefine2020 way

DebunkTheBIM

(even if your company is ‘BIM enabled’) If you work in construction, you are likely to waste a lot of time/money because how projects are documented. BIM, drawings and specs are hurting you and we’re here to help. Entire house documentation packaged in one model including drawings and specifications.

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