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How The Cloud Is Enabling Smarter Project Management—Part 4 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Or as one contractor recently put it, “I reviewed draw requests from 35,000 feet in the air on WiFi on a flight to China over Siberia.” Accuracy, especially with the data used to generate WIP reports, true job costing projections, change order status and the like, is key to projects’ ultimate success.

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Project Management Technology Tools Helping Contractors Modernize, Streamline Operations—Part 3 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Effective project management means controlling the data flow and staying on top of transmittals, submittals, RFIs, email communications, change orders, materials, inventory, job cost and WIP reports, labor hours and wages, union rules, safety regulations, insurance and bonding, compliance data and a whole lot more.

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Autodesk Build Powers Success for Tetris across an International Design and Build Business

Autodesk Construction Cloud

“We used email and other tools for drawings, RFIs, approvals and other issues. It was a really manual process, where we were downloading documents, making notes manually, re-uploading them and then sending them for approval.” It was a similar story for design teams, recalls Rachel Andrews, BIM Manager for Design at Tétris.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Personally, I’m pretty sure I’m downloading more apps for my mobile devices than complete software applications for my computer. Download an app for your phone or tablet and chances are it will perform one primary function. change orders. It seems like there truly is an app for everything today. Apps are for single tasks.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

To begin a discussion of cloud computing, let’s draw some analogies from the world of public utilities. To draw an analogy, imagine a situation in which individuals connected their own personal power generators to create a shared power grid. With the Internet becoming an application utility, this model is changing. January 2009.

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30+ New Updates for Autodesk Build

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Collaborative Potential Change Order Workflow* . Previously, it could only be used by the “For the Field” folder with the permissioned actions of “View” and “View + Download. ”. Cost Management | Collaborative Potential Change Order Workflow* . Cost Management . Executive Level Cross Project Budget Report .

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The Complete Guide to Project Commissioning

Autodesk Construction Cloud

According to Whole Building Design Guide, “Buildings that are properly commissioned typically have fewer change orders , tend to be more energy-efficient, and have lower operation and maintenance cost.” With effective commisioning comes a smooth handover, less change orders, and repeat clients.