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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In traveling to Phoenix-based construction technology firm Nox Innovations, he explores firsthand how builders are constructing for extreme environments here and gleaning lessons about resilience that could be extended beyond planet Earth. Make It Resilient 2024 is now open, and the deadline to submit is June 24, 2024.

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New Study Reveals Cost Effectiveness of Solar Panels

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Home Innovation Research Labs’ new study looks at the cost effectiveness of solar panels across five markets across the country: Phoenix, Tampa, Boston, Kansas City, and Seattle. Home Innovation completed the report by using software from the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, says the National Association of Home Builders.

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Webinars & Construction Events in September 2022

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Choosing the right software vendor and how to partner with them. Learn how the team at Flint Builders leverages leading technologies including BIM and Assemble for model checking and identifying changes between design iterations to quickly track impact on cost and procurement. The Next-Gen Project Delivery Conference (Phoenix, AZ).

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Two-Day US Workshop Series for Efficient design of post-tensioned buildings

Construction Cost Estimating

This workshop series is purposely designed for those who get interested in availing practical training & in detail training in 3D-FEM concrete software , modeling processes and methods used for the design and evaluation of post-tensioned buildings. construction estimating 3d concrete software concrete estimating'

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

Carol Hagen

I met James in Phoenix last year when he was the speaker for a construction association dinner meeting and we have been friends (and admirers of each other) ever since. Precise 3D models. ? The devices, combined with their data, allow the user to take a BIM ( [link] ) model and render it in 3D on top of real world images.

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Does a BIM Requirement Stop You From Bidding?

Carol Hagen

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become an industry standard on complex construction projects. As more Construction owners reap the benefits of BIM, more projects add a modeling component. Then you can mold your own model of a BIM professional without any “bad habit” baggage.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Chris Walker, VDC Project Manager at PENTA Building Group

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Our home base is in Las Vegas, where I am, though we also have offices in Phoenix, Arizona, and Southern California, where we’ve expanded. RFIs, drawings, and models are easily accessible thanks to technology. With Autodesk, I can access drawings, models, submittals, RFIs, and even photos in one location.