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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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Bluebeam Tips: Interactive Plan Sets Best Practices

Carol Hagen

This works great for Bluebeamers but when sharing construction plan sets with subcontractors and other team members that might not own Bluebeam Revu, they don’t have a back button available with Acrobat or other PDF viewers. Here’s a best practice tip that will make it easier for everyone using the plans.

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

Carol Hagen

Mobile devices with the following components: - Gyroscope. 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. Precise 3D models. ?

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The Power of Augmented Reality (AR) in Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In healthcare, AR is being used to visualize organs or simulate procedures. Mixed reality combines virtual reality and augmented reality to immerse users in visual content while letting them remain aware of their physical surroundings. In construction, AR can be used in everything from project planning to communications.

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LIFE’S GOOD AWARD Winners Present Warm-Hearted Tech Solutions for a Better Future

Pro Builder

The company aimed to solicit ideas for environmental sustainability and accessibility, two key focuses of its long-term ESG initiative, the Better Life Plan 2030. developed an assistive information display device for the visually impaired composed of 2,400 braille pins – or ‘dots’ – which move up and down. ­­ .:

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Winning Projects with Interactive Construction Presentations

Carol Hagen

Here are a few ideas to convert your next presentation from drab to interactive: Make Your Information Visually Appealing. Hyperlinking Slide content to construction documents or real-time data collection that translates these field updates into easily understood moving visuals are recommended. Update Your Construction Visual Aides.

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Level Up Design and Coordination Workflows with Accessible Reality Capture 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

New mobile devices now have photogrammetry capabilities, so extracting 3D information from photos is much easier. . In addition, mobile BIM technology allows on-site teams to check installation details so they can effortlessly navigate 3D models that now include a reality capture component. Let’s go back to that project… .

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