Lets Build

APRIL 3, 2020

Construction blueprints (also known as construction plans or construction drawings) are two-dimensional drawings that contain all the details that are needed for a project. Historically, blueprints were literally blueprints and were made to reproduce technical drawings through a contact print process on light-sensitive paper.

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Drawings Construction Plans Permits 139

Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 28, 2022

“Previously, we found ourselves wasting a lot of time and resources dealing with document approvals and managing the inputs of the many clients and subcontractors involved in our projects.” –Le This gives the team a single secure point of reference and way to coordinate data collection, photos, and follow-up documents.

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Lets Build

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The workflow that best represents that is the project communication, where managers still use printed drawings, handwritten journals. Physical documentation will always play a big role in construction for a reason, but that doesn’t mean companies shouldn’t adjust to changes and ease up their workflow through meaningful virtual solutions.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Site documentation images required hours of effort to manage and co-ordinate. Others such as Michael Stone have argued about the advantages of solid image documentation of your work projects. More immediately, the on-site documentation can help prevent conflicts and inconsistencies or at least help manage and control problems.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Typically, a team might track installations by highlighting a drawing in Bluebeam, entering numbers into a spreadsheet every day in the project office, or even using colored pencils on a hard-copy drawing. BCCI) and Leica Geosystems present how two industry partners go about providing BIM-to-field integration of concrete construction.

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BIM & Beam

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Model views combined with cameras help simplify the process of creating general arrangement drawings. Advance Steel 2018 now enables you to combine a model view with a camera and use it for drawing creation by assigning it a specific drawing style & scale. 4 – Call out on drawing. 4 – Call out on drawing.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

After identifying excess framing members, compare your notes with the construction drawings. A collaborative effort must be present from the initial stages of design. Remember to allow extra time in development for reviews at drawing milestones. Lean Design Construction Documents. Are the headers called off?

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Construction Specifier

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

They see trends toward integrating information better, both with building information modeling (BIM) and drawings, and between teammates. He sees reliance on the full-time specifier continuing, but bridges being built slowly between that person and the drawings. They imagine specifiers will be increasingly integrated with their teams.

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The Constructor

AUGUST 23, 2012

Green part in the drawing represent restraint fixing and blue part as load bearing fixing. These fixings generally take the form of concrete nibs or metal (usually stainless steel) angles. The metal should have good workability but also keep its strength during fabrication.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 29, 2021

Project cannot be expedited with a collaborative fast-track process; drawings and specs must be 100% complete to bid (though latter rarely occurs). While high set up costs required larger projects, project types must be relatively straightforward, where requirements can be fully documented at request for proposals (RFP) stage.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MAY 11, 2023

“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 Specifier

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Curtain wall systems are ever present in today’s commercial construction marketplace. In this case, a basis-of-design, commodity, stick-built curtain wall system can be shown on the architectural drawings and included in the performance specifications and can be competitively bid by the CM/GC after final construction documents are produced.

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Design Fabrication Consulting Bidding 93

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 15, 2017

In addition, the ability to review and interpret construction drawings, work with cost estimating formulas and technologies, communicate information to disparate disciplines and audiences, and attention to detail are all additional requirements. Documenting and associated presentation of the estimate.

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Fieldwire

AUGUST 7, 2023

As a tool, QC can be thought of as a corrective tool, typically carried out by a specific group of individuals on a job site; the inspectors and project engineers who walk and document items that need corrective action. The conditions that we are presented with simply overtax our currently used processes. It is an important process.

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Construction Drawings Products Management 98

DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In architecture, a section is a drawing that cuts through the building vertically. A bit of a tongue twister: As a designing/documenting architect regardless of the media you use to assist you conceptualise, interpret, resolve and document – do you clearly buy into one method or the other? Could be a self-test for BIM readiness.

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Drawings Documentation Modeling BIM 48

Revit OpEd

AUGUST 26, 2011

Congratulations to the following speakers who provided the top 10 presentations at the conference according to our respondents: Paul Aubin (Still Not Sharing Your Coordinates?). Techniques for Designing and Documenting Panelized Wall Systems in Revit). Brian Mackey (LAB: Nesting Families). Thomas Weir (LAB: BIM for Wood Structures).

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 5, 2022

models, documents, etc.). Additionally, the StructionSite Partner Card in the Autodesk Build dashboard allows for private & public viewing of StructionSite documentation and gives users the ability to access a StructionSite project directly within Autodesk Build. . “As

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 18, 2011

What I observe in the industry still backs my view, that project delivery where one party does the ‘thinking part’ and another the ‘documenting’ is risky. Just look at a typical ‘design team’: Most BIM presentations start with a picture of a round-table and various team-members gathered around the ‘project’. And costly.

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Documentation Drawings BIM Modeling 48

DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 15, 2011

The capture said, ‘this is the medium soon entire buildings will be documented on and handed to contractors to build from.’ I don’t think that was what Mark meant when he was referring to digitally documenting yet-to-be-built buildings. Picture book documenting tomorrow, today a common disclaimer.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 7, 2022

This growth and recent changes in the construction landscape present both challenges and opportunities for plumbing contractors. However, a strong technology toolkit can help today’s plumbing contractors automate workflows , create a single source of truth for important documents, mitigate risk, and win more bids. .

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Fieldwire

AUGUST 13, 2023

A punch list (also called a snag list, deficiency list, or punch out list), according to the online Business Dictionary , is “a document listing work that does not conform to contract specifications, usually attached to a certificate of substantial completion.” What is a punch list? It can become like a punch list checklist.

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Contractors Drawings Software Software 98

Contractor Magazine

JULY 9, 2014

It comes with a pressure sensitive digital pen for taking notes, drawing or marking up presentations, PDFs and documents in a similar way as on paper. The multi-touch tablet (supporting swipe, pinch and drag), has 5 MP front and rear facing cameras, a USB 3 jack, a video output jack, and a microSD card reader. Feldmans'

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 21, 2018

She speaks very little English but has lived with us for long enough and attended enough of my Serbian/Hungarian presentations to get the gist of what I am about. She loyally shares my blog announcements on Facebook and looks over Slideshows, YouTube movies, PP presentations I make. Mark up drawings on screen? It is radical.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

We propose to present the findings of the exercise to the audience of the conference. VICO and I have a quiet truce and Gehry Technologies’ work I admire from a distance. You be the judge!

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Autodesk ArchiCAD Conference Revit 48

Wolgast Corporation

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The contractor’s evaluation will likely save time and money, or provide good recommendations for a building that doesn’t initially present itself as suitable. Are there any As Built drawings or Architectural Plans? Your Architect can create As Built drawings for a fee. What is the age or condition of the building?

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BD+C

AUGUST 28, 2023

Rebekah Schranck, AIA Contractors Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Architects Building Owners Construction Administration presents its fair share of challenges in the architectural industry, from managing clients' change of heart in the midst of construction to dealing with contractors that are reluctant to revise their work.

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Construction AIA Architecture Contractors 81

Building Information Management

JUNE 25, 2012

More importantly, the information relates to the intended objects (components) and processes, rather than relating to the appearance and presentation of documents and drawings.More traditional 2D or 3D drawings may well be outputs of BIM, however, instead of generating in the conventional way ie. ” – RICS.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 23, 2023

For teams to extract value from data, they must first make sense of the information they have—which is where data visualization comes in. Construction projects involve massive amounts of information and documents, including BIM models, schedules, budgets, and performance reports. Unfortunately, around 95% of that information goes unused.

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Visualization Construction Autodesk Safety 119

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The following template is provide for sample purposes only and should not be used a legally bidding document without through review and modification by appropriate Owner legal counsel. Architect/Engineer’s Guidelines, Quality Control, and other related documents in effect at. JOB ORDER CONTRACT (JOC) EXECUTION GUIDE. the time of award.

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Contract Organization Change Orders Overhead 100

DebunkTheBIM

AUGUST 8, 2011

Presented with a design, they all like to pull it apart, analyse, balance and savour, praise or criticise but more than anything, interact with it. Scribbles of multicoloured pens over working drawings come to mind, perspective renders prepared with care and attacked with vivid pens also. Finally got around to trial Tekla’s BIMsight.

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Drawings BIM Documentation Modeling 48

Job Order Contracting

JULY 26, 2017

For example, are drawings given to the general contractor 50% of the time? Information should include a description of current conditions including access, materials, dimensions, and a drawing/PDF, as well as a description and drawing/PDF of requirements. indicating “Per JOC Cooperative Contract”, on the appropriate document.

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Bidding Contract Contractors Electrical 100

Construction Cost Estimating

APRIL 19, 2019

This civil engineering article sheds light on the inspection method of various civil works as well as necessary documents to carry out an inspection at construction project. Construction activities and consequent inspection standard should be based on job site specifications, methods and drawings.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 25, 2022

While humans have been engineering architectural feats for thousands of years, traditional drawings are often siloed, stagnant, and vulnerable to rapid obsolescence. . So, how does BIM impact construction currently, and what opportunities will it present for the future? Register today! REGISTER NOW. Internal Use Only . “We

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I believe, that no real progress in the overall construction industry will happen as long as we have ‘the’ paper present in and around our core processes. Someone else will print the drawing. (or Marked up (and outdated) drawings. Most will not do it, because they do not have to. Most will not do it, as ‘they get by’.

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BIM Drawings Modeling Claims 105

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Informal (shop) drawings, incidental to the job, reflecting the plan of action and the completed project, are anticipated under JOC. a) The facilities management and/or technical staff must document the decision and plan to use a JOC. (b) Engineering or architectural support services generally can not be acquired using JOC. Procedures.

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Contract Management Negotiation Estimating 100

DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Digital Platform based Shop-drawing assessment Construction Information Management has been an interest of mine for a good 30 years. Over this time I become a fairly competent BIM implementer and had been involved with some pretty large projects all over the world.

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Drawings BIM Modeling Management 48

Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Review drawings and designs one final time At the start of the meeting, all drawings and designs should exist in a state of approval. They’re the peanut butter and jelly of stakeholders, and it’s hard to make significant changes without them present. However, if there’s a problem, you want to catch it up front.

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