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The Distaste for Toll Roads in the U.S. | ENR: Engineering News.

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The Distaste for Toll Roads in the U.S. Toll roads—just those two words bring out extreme reactions. The cumulative investment in toll roads from 1800 to 1830 was $25.5 The cumulative investment in toll roads from 1800 to 1830 was $25.5 The great toll-road eras were of particular interest to de Tocqueville.

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Data Analytics vs Gut Feeling – A Discussion

Viewpoint Construction Technology

In other words, not only planning what’s going to come down the road but having the software and the technology there that helps you and prompts you — almost like Siri, or your autonomous driving cars that say, “Okay, here are all these scenarios that make sense.” Preyss summed up his response with the following: Data analytics, good.

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New Construction Technology Worth Contractors’ Attention

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They’re helping designers who need to survey an area and visualize structures, since images from drones can help with the creation of building information models (BIM). Augmented reality is enabling field measurements and visualization of models. What should contractors have an eye toward implementing down the road?

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don't think: Do Revit: Taking Revit Server "off-road"

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Taking Revit Server "off-road". So as long as they cut a local before leaving the main office, and SWC when they get back, it could work very well (as long it does not hold up other people attempting to work on the model at the same time). The other thing to keep in mind is that RS only caches the model data to the Local Servers.

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Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

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There are several types of machine learning models that consist of machine learning from certain data sets. For example, the self-driving car AI machines are only fed data sets that deal with driving, like road conditions, mapping, traffic laws, driving situations, etc. or daylighting models, or generative models.

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don't think: Do Revit: Fun Tech

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What he is featuring is a an Augmented Reality (AR) demo that simply uses your webcam, a free player software and model. Taking Revit Server "off-road" ► April. (11). The comments and blog entries on this site represent the viewpoints of the author only. ► July. (2). ► June. (3). ▼ May. (4).

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State of the Construction Industry: February Roundup

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As construction continues to navigate at a Jekyll and Hyde sort of landscape — business models are changing, industry challenges still remain, yet project opportunities show no signs of slowing down and innovation is leading to expansion — keeping tabs of key trends is more important than ever. Mixed-use developments, featuring retail.,