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The New Preconstruction Advantage: Connected Quantification & Model Coordination in a Common Data Environment

Construction Business Owner

The New Preconstruction Advantage: Connected Quantification & Model Coordination in a Common Data Environment. This enables teams to recover margins when rework is reduced and improve the quality of construction models — all before breaking ground. Perform 2D/3D takeoffs & BIM coordination in a single software solution. Greg Ragsdale.

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New Sustainable Projects Exhibit in 2017 AIA Contract Documents

Green Building Law Update

Last week the American Institute of Architects released the 2017 edition of the A201 family of contract documents, including updated versions of the AIA’s documents developed for the design-bid-build delivery model. The previous version of the design-bid-build contract documents included a Sustainable Project version.

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6 Reasons Your Document Management is Slipping

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Teams need to work together to move a project forward—and construction document management plays a significant role here. Stakeholders must get their hands on various documents (including plans, models, and documents) at any given time. This is why mobility is essential in document management.

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Changing the Safety Conversation

Construction Business Owner

Safety professionals are often tasked with creating a safety plan based on 2-D documents with little to no input into the design and construction process. Building information modeling (BIM), however, provides a significant opportunity to improve the safety planning process.'

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How Much is Poor Construction Document Management Costing You? 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As teams get larger and construction projects become more complex, proper document management needs to be an integral part of your workflow. Poor document management is detrimental to a project and can lead to delays, budget overruns , and rework. trillion in 2020.

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Building in Cloud – Collaborative Construction and FM Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery

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Document Management within Building in Cloud allows you to manage all the information connected to it (metadata), not just the document content, including version, status, upload date, etc., Building in Cloud allows authorized team members to access and share documents, manage tasks, or troubleshoot.

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The Evolution of Information

Construction Business Owner

Even when the information is provided via printed plans and documents, it is often transferred to a digital form or via models created using building information modeling (BIM) applications. This transfer of intelligent information is a critical point in the construction process and is vital to a project’s overall success.'

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