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Bluebeam Revu Idea: The Ultimate HomeBuilder As-Built

Carol Hagen

Once you’ve completed building your customers dream home you hand over the keys and all the documentation. What if you delighted your home owner with an interactive As-built with the appliances, fixtures and all their documentation embedded on the plans? PDF icons open up underlying documentation for each appliance or fixture.

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Successful Construction Project Delivery Requirements

Job Order Contracting

Who can offer change ideas (informally and formally)? What documentation, forms are required? Who plans and prioritizes project considerations? Who assesses the impact of the proposed changes? Who reviews the proposed change and its impact for initial approval ? How is the change implemented? What information is used in the process?

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Construction Photography Best Practices

Carol Hagen

Using photos and videos of your project progress, documentation includes that of subcontractors, before work is hidden behind walls, buried in concrete or above ceiling tiles. Often documenting field events are part of the daily log process. General Contractors are also using milestone photos to reduce risk. Daily Log Photos.

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Innovative Approaches to Industrial Construction Project Management

Construction Marketing

All stakeholders have access to the same files, documents, drawing, and models. Sure, adding solar panels, PV windows, the best insulation for exterior walls , and water harvesting are all wonderful ideas for creating green buildings. Modern projects are incorporating building information management (BIM) software.

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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. 32″ Liquid Display with Stand.

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How Smart Subcontractors Spot Revisions on Plans

Carol Hagen

When conditions and ideas change, so do the plans. Whether you have a clean vector drawing or plans scanned to PDF you can use Bluebeam Revu’s compare documents to cloud the differences and get a side-by-side comparison, or overlay the plan sheets. Document comparison is just one way to save time and reduce risk.

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Putting Paper in Its Place

Viewpoint Construction Technology

There was a time when paper was the way to go for managing documents, RFIs, submittals and processes like payroll, time-off requests and job costing. You may have formerly used it to record time cards or print out documents , but you don’t have to anymore. But those days are over. Stress Relief Shredding. Let’s face it.