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Documenting Architecture

BD+C

So you're sitting at your desk, you’ve got your project up on the monitor and you are in the zone and crushing it, but what does that even look like? The process of preparing drawings has evolved from “What do we need to do?” to “What can’t we do?”

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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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Bullied by BIM? Fight back! Go paperfree!

DebunkTheBIM

I am referring here to the ‘real paper’, in its physical representation, not documents that ‘look like paper documents’ but can just as well function in purely digital forms (letters, contracts, drawings etc); I have an issue with the ‘medium’ and not the content. (in Someone else will print the drawing. (or

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Questions Commercial Buyers Should Ask When Shopping for a New Building

Wolgast Corporation

Are there any As Built drawings or Architectural Plans? Your Architect can create As Built drawings for a fee. Does the current zoning of the space/building permit your intended business use? Additionally, if you plan to sell your building and have any of these documents/answers, keep them to pass on to the new buyer.

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Construction Plan and 3D Model Markups will Never Be the Same

Carol Hagen

The flexible interface is designed to provide the necessary tools for accessing and managing the documents that you need, when you need them, especially Construction Plans and drawings. update hyperlinked documents, and create zone awareness for markups with Spaces. Use Links to easily create and.

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Bluebeam Studio: The Most Powerful, Overlooked Feature in Revu

Carol Hagen

Studio Projects lets you share project files and folders including Word documents, Excel Spreadsheets, images, PDFs, DWGs, etc. You can check out documents from Studio Project, make revisions and check them back in or in the case of PDFs, collaborate on these documents in a Studio Session.

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“Innovation is purposeful”: How Skanska’s Sr. Precon Technologist Drives Change

Autodesk Construction Cloud

When solutions are simple to use, it takes less motivation to get people to step out of their comfort zone and try new things. In general, people have a hard time visualizing a mental picture of 2D construction documents. You have digital 2D documents that can be marked up virtually. Training should also be simple and intuitive.