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Slow & Steady: State of the Concrete Industry

For Construction Pros

aboutmomentsimages - stock.adobe.com Marianna Kopsida, PhD, industry manager - IMF & Vertical Construction at Trimble, shares her insight into the state of the concrete industry and the challenges contractors are managing daily. Contractors have responded by accelerating the adoption of technology and optimizing project planning.

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Despite Help From Good Samaritan, Deadly Accident Brings Grief and a Father's Anger

ENR Construction

What unfolded that day is a an example of why equipment contact with overhead power lines, whether it is a crane, a concrete pump or a boom lift, can have lethally unpredictable consequences, which in this case can go beyond the project site. Researchers R.J. Cunitz and L.

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Is a BIM Mandate Coming to the US?

Viewpoint Construction Technology

As we discussed in a recent blog post , the JBKnowledge 2017 Construction Technology report found that building information modeling (BIM) adoption in the United States has been fairly slow, with only 27 percent of construction companies having a BIM department. So will the United States ever have a BIM mandate?

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A Guide to BIM

Viewpoint Construction Technology

If you work in construction, you can’t escape the buzz around business information modeling (BIM) , the 3D modeling method used to communicate information throughout the design, build and lifecycle of a project. What Is BIM? BIM lets your whole team work off the same models.

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BIM-in-The-Cloud Has New Competition With Newforma | ENR.

ENR Construction

Building Types. Project Delivery. Information Technology. White Papers. BIM-in-The-Cloud Has New Competition With Newforma. The VEO platform helps project teams work inside complex 3D models on project delivery. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Sustainability.

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Construction Classification Criticality – A Draft White Paper

Job Order Contracting

. – Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Facilities Management, & Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment. The combination of information related to all aspects of physical assets life-cycle is best called a physical asset model.

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Building Tall With BIM Brings Gains, Building Long with VDC is the.

ENR Construction

Building Types. Project Delivery. Information Technology. White Papers. Building Tall With BIM Brings Gains, Building Long with VDC is the Bigger Game. Description: Advantages of VDC: construction processes in vertical buildings are often repeatable—and repeated. Risk management.