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Why You Should Make 4D Construction Sequencing ‘Business as Usual’ – and How To Do It

Autodesk Construction Cloud

You create fancy animations and visualisations of the built assets coming to life, ultimately presenting a relatively low-fidelity model of the asset you’re creating. Tools that are easy to use will aid in the adoption and mean that the early work needed to set up 4D models will not get deprioritised. But it can be so much more.

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How Much Does Rework Really Cost Your Job and What Can You Do to Stop It?

Construction Junkie

Unsatisfied with stopping at direct cost, the researches at Navigant then turned their attention to overhead costs, which include managerial, supervisor, and site safety costs. Review of Constructability Hiring an independent contractor or consultant is recommended to review all construction documents prior to start of construction.

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DebunkTheBIM: Breaking down the doors to construction modelling.

DebunkTheBIM

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Sunday, November 27, 2011. Breaking down the doors to construction modelling. You need to be smarter to document buildings in 2D. at 9:20 AM.

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4BT’s Best Value Job Order Contracting Solution

Job Order Contracting

For example, a UPB should reflect the local cost of construction minus contractor profit and overhead. That said, our construction cost data is organized using CSI MasterFormat and therefore could be easily integrated within appropriate technology applications. A partial listing of 4BT’s support services includes: JOC Program Development.

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Advancing Healthcare: Medical Office Buildings at the Forefront of Access and Safety

BD+C

The healthcare facilities landscape is shifting to resemble mixed-use and retail environments more than the traditional hospital model. MOBs present an opportunity to achieve these goals, simultaneously producing new efficiencies and trimming overhead expenses.

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“Why are bids so different?” and why your proposal document is most important when it least seems so.

Construction Marketing Ideas

A good business also adds overhead and profit to allow them to earn a decent living and the funds to service their clients. Some provided their documentation in handwritten scrawl on estimate forms. Proposal quality documentation can reach incredible extremes if you have the resources to invest in sophisticated systems.

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Autodesk and AWS are Helping Construction Firms Gain Useful Insights from Their Data 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In addition to documents, photos, and videos, project data also includes Computer-Aided-Design files (CAD), Building Information Models (BIM), and spatial data captured using various 3D scanning methods. To accomplish this, construction professionals need the ability to access the necessary information quickly and easily.