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

Construction Business Owner

A CDE provides a single source of truth that users can rely on, and team members can reduce costly errors knowing that they are working from the right information at the right time. Easily move existing takeoff to newer versions of the drawings without the need to perform the takeoff again. Collaboration With Autodesk Takeoff.

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

Viewpoint Construction Technology

While having the best people in place, working together well and using the latest tools is critical, the construction project can still suffer if the data being tracked and reviewed is days or even weeks old. That outdated project information can make it hard to accurately gauge current job costs or work in progress.

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Revit Concrete Layout and Detailing Creation from SOFiSTiK

BIM & Beam

The tool helps layout concrete reinforcement and then generate the 2D detailing drawings. Even though it is still a work in progress it already does quite a bit. One of the solutions that I think is quite interesting is "SOFiSTiK Reinforcement for Autodesk® Revit®”. It is something that has been under development for some time.

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Sharing the Advance Steel Roadmap

BIM & Beam

There’s a lot more work going on behind the scenes and this roadmap doesn’t reflect everything the development teams are working on. When we can, we’ll also share videos that illustrate some of the work-in-progress software. Roadmaps are plans, not promises.

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Unique QuickBooks Setup For Contractors

Contractor Bookkeeping

Chart of Accounts Work-In-Progress For Land Developers. Chart of Accounts Work-In-Progress For Land Development Into Lots. Chart of Accounts Work-In-Progress For Spec Builders. Chart of Accounts Work-In-Progress For Spec Home Into Rentals. Item List Work-In-Progress Costs For Land Developers.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Or have you done extra work that wasn’t covered by a change order? In addition to monitoring your work in progress, study your estimating and profit histories. Review some of your profitable jobs and some that didn’t work out so well to determine where the jobs didn’t meet budgets and whether expenses were allocated properly.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Project cannot be expedited with a collaborative fast-track process; drawings and specs must be 100% complete to bid (though latter rarely occurs). IPD or LEAN Job Order Contracting) of design process, with the A/E typically working for the contractor. Disagreements related to intended quality of work are not uncommon.

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