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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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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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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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How to Control Reinforcement Activities On-site

Construction Cost Estimating

Planning Phase : You need to study the documents concerning the project carefully as to divine the exact requirements. Arrange the required applicable codes,requirements and different related documents at the website for reference and study. Study the tender drawings without fail.

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Bring on digital, online building permits!

DebunkTheBIM

I mentioned before design consultants regularly and intentionally showing incomplete drawings with a lot of padding (irrelevant information) to keep the mental image of the proposed building as vague as possible for as long as possible. Assessing documents for permits seems to be another status quo that cannot be improved.

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Safety School: Emergency Response Plans for Permit Required Confined Spaces

Safety Services Company

Here are four basic questions to check that your emergency response plan for permit required confined spaces is complete. These four questions are just some of the emergency response variables that employers need to address before sending a worker down into a permit space, and the included documents help you ask them all.

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Over 275 Partners Now Integrate with Autodesk Construction Applications 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Billy streamlines the collection and verification of compliance documents, such as Certificates of Insurance, business licenses, and certified payroll. DataSeer allows construction professionals to identify, extract, and convert unstructured drawings and documents into standardized output formats, including CSV and CAD files automatically.

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