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Construction Estimating: Manual Counting Ends with Visual Search

Carol Hagen

Construction Estimators have been spending much of their estimating time counting electrical recepticals, sprinkler heads, and trees. The estimating take-off process has just been revolutionized with Bluebeam Revu 11′s Visual Search. Visual Search is just one piece of Revu’s measurement capabilities. Watch the video.

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Bluebeam Tip: Visualizing Project Percentage Completion with Your Project Owner

Carol Hagen

How to General Contractors help a project Owner Visualize the Project’s Percentage of Completion? The problem is most owners need visuals. electrical, drywall, etc) You may also want to change the opacity. Bluebeam Revu Bluebeam Revu Tips Custom Status Project Owner Visualizing Project Completion'

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Augmented Reality Now: How 3D Visualization is Changing the Construction Industry

Carol Hagen

With the advent of all of these technologies put together into portable devices like the iPhone and iPad, not to mention Android based solutions like the Galaxy class phones and new Galaxy Tab, data now meets visualization in a way never imagined.

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Illuminating your path to energy efficiency

BD+C

Visual + Biological cues Photo courtesy Design Collaborative Lighting provides us with both visual and biological cues, both the ability to visually navigate through a space and to take in our surrounding environment. Did you know that 11% of electricity use in the United States is from lighting? When is the right time?

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Will GFCI Revisions for Manufacturers Confuse the Trades?

Pro Builder

As with any electrical product, enhancements have been made by many reputable electrical manufacturers. In 2012, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) worked with UL and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to announce changes for GFCIs and revisions to UL 943.

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New Asset Features to Boost Progress Tracking on 2D Drawings

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With these new capabilities, you can visually markup 2D sheets and track asset progress to keep office teams updated while empowering folks in the field to forecast their productivity and quickly adjust to scheduling changes. The assets change color based on their status to visually show progress.

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Considerations for using aluminum-framed interior wall systems

Construction Specifier

Using interior aluminum framing systems with glazing inserts provides physical separation, while maintaining visual connections. Tinted and translucent glazing, or dynamic glazing that switches from clear to tinted, balances transparency with a degree of visual privacy. Interior entrance systems.