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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. Nonetheless, as-built drawings remain an essential process in a project, especially to maintain a project’s lifecycle after construction has ended. . Shop drawing changes. Key Takeaways. What Is an “As-Built?” .

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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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Classes for Field Teams at AU 2023

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Typically, a team might track installations by highlighting a drawing in Bluebeam, entering numbers into a spreadsheet every day in the project office, or even using colored pencils on a hard-copy drawing. BCCI) and Leica Geosystems present how two industry partners go about providing BIM-to-field integration of concrete construction.

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The Construction Office Imperative: Digitize, Go Paperless and Mobile

Carol Hagen

Correspondence, contracts and RFIs, change orders, and drawings are frequently emailed. Review and approval on a iPad, signature capture on a form and granting access from a mobile device can return big dividends. Making the process fully electronic saves time, eliminates filing and makes document retrieval almost instant.

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Travel lighter: tablet performs like a laptop, mobile app

Contractor Magazine

It comes with a pressure sensitive digital pen for taking notes, drawing or marking up presentations, PDFs and documents in a similar way as on paper. The multi-touch tablet (supporting swipe, pinch and drag), has 5 MP front and rear facing cameras, a USB 3 jack, a video output jack, and a microSD card reader. Feldmans'

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Overheard in the Big Room: The Future of BIM Across the Lifecycle   

Autodesk Construction Cloud

While humans have been engineering architectural feats for thousands of years, traditional drawings are often siloed, stagnant, and vulnerable to rapid obsolescence. . So, how does BIM impact construction currently, and what opportunities will it present for the future? Mobile Viewing on the Go . Register today! REGISTER NOW.

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How to Use Safety Signs So That They’re Effective

Construction Marketing

The sign should be easily read from a distance so that people can prepare to enter (or avoid) the area that presents the hazard. Draw new workers’ attention to the signs, ask that they read them and know what, if any, preparations they need to take to enter the area, operate the machinery or perform the tasks.

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