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Advance Steel Tips, Tricks, and Workflows You’ll Want to Try at the Office

BIM & Beam

For this post, I’m going to summarize some of the Advance Steel tips and tricks that I described in my class “Advance Steel Tips, Tricks, and Workflows You’ll Want to Try at the Office” during the Autodesk University MEP & Structural Fabricators Forum 2017. Using specific colors for parts on drawings. Center of Gravity.

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Curtain wall design-assist: Navigating the process for success

Construction Specifier

Technological advancements in curtain wall design tools, materials, prototyping, and fabrication techniques offer new avenues for achieving these lofty design and performance goals. The architectural design of curtain walls must be developed alongside increasing demand for high-performing, energy-efficient solutions.

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What Are As Built Drawings?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

If a picture can speak a thousand words, in a project, as-built drawings can speak a thousand construction processes. Nonetheless, as-built drawings remain an essential process in a project, especially to maintain a project’s lifecycle after construction has ended. . Shop drawing changes. Key Takeaways. What Is an “As-Built?” .

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The Interconnected Construction Organization — Part 2: The Benefits of Integrated Construction Software in the Cloud

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Integrated software can make workflows easier for contractors in both the office and the field. Collaborative tools that pull together entire project teams with the same set of real-time data replace reliance on email, faxes, phone calls and multiple trips between the office and field. This improves collaboration and keeps work moving.

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The 8 wastes of lean construction

Fieldwire

Keeping everyone from the office to the field on the same page reduces the number of unnecessary trips, and reduces the first of our 8 wastes of lean. This includes material being stored on-site or at the fabrication yard, work in progress, and unused tools or parts.

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With BIM, steel detailing can be delivered fast. See how Autodesk customer TSI Structures did it.

BIM & Beam

We’re excited to share this great customer story from UK based fabricator TSI Structures. They used BIM-based workflows between Autodesk Revit and Advance Steel to reduce their anticipated schedule time by approximately 20 percent.

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How Boustead Cut Reporting Time From Days to Minutes with Autodesk Build

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Adding Autodesk Build to their construction solution stack enables Boustead to implement an effective IDD framework process with a single source of truth for the entire building lifecycle to ensure that Revit BIM models, drawings, RFIs, and document submissions by different stakeholders are shared effectively. to 1.5hrs).