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Engineers Rise to Challenge to Deliver Ideas for Infrastructure Innovation

ENR Construction

The American Society of Civil Engineers Innovation Contest addresses the ASCE’s Grand Challenge, which tasks civil engineers to significantly enhance the performance and life-cycle value of infrastructure by 2025.

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Digital Builder Ep 60: How Innovation and Technology Intersect

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Digital twins at Massport Digital twin technology is always an exciting topic, particularly when discussing construction innovations. Our digital twin is a virtual representation of physical assets across the life cycle that is meant to develop and announce processes and technologies to improve decision-making," Luciana explains.

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BIM, Big Data, and Efficient Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

Building Information Management

Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment comes down to analyzing large data sets— big data—from several knowledge domains. Next generation cloud-computing and knowledge-based solutions will enable new levels of innovation, productivity, collaboration, transparency, competition, and growth. Collaboration.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges. INTRODUCTION.

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New Methods and Materials in Bridgebuilding Gain Acceptance

ENR Construction

Fiber-reinforced polymer composites, high-performance concrete and other innovative materials and technologies appear to be fulfilling their promise to reduce infrastructure maintenance and life-cycle costs, and cut construction time, according to a recently released Transportation Research Board consensus study.

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Everything you need for building and project management

Job Order Contracting

The innovative and proven way to more efficiently manage. Building in Cloud utilizes the benefits of BIM (Building Information Modelling), to increase levels of efficiency and collaboration between team members involved in the design, construction and operational phases of the building life-cycle. Building Information Modeling.

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Integrated project delivery method

Job Order Contracting

These benefits are largely derived through the use of a common data environment, CDE, which dramatically improves communication and collaboration throughout the project life-cycle. Finally, complementing and adding the information is in the life-cycle physical asset model is simplified using a CDE. CDE Players.