NoteVault Launches Free NoteVault Accounts for Subcontractors

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NoteVault recently launched One Team. One Report, a new program designed to increase transparency, while reducing administration costs of managing subcontractor reports on large, complicated building or engineering projects. This program enables construction companies to invite subcontractors to contribute project documentation to any project within their account at no cost to either the contractor or the subcontractor. Each subcontractor is allocated an individual NoteVault account, which includes daily reporting platform; Notes! app for Android or iOS; activities labor, materials and equipment app; immediate notification of incidents/accidents; collaboration with colleagues using comment feature and professional human transcription (additional charge). The NoteVault … Read more

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Three Steps to Enhancing the Crew’s Safety

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By Jenna Avitabile There has been a dramatic increase in urban development across the country. Parking lots, underused commercial properties and former industrial sites are more frequently being replaced by condominiums, apartments, townhouses and small-lot, single-family homes, as well as retail/mixed-use projects —including a rise in repurposing project sites in order to optimize usable space. With urban construction becoming much more dense — building against buildings and streets on all edges — innovative technologies, such as 3-D modeling and new cloud-based mobile safety methods, as well as ongoing corporate training, are being utilized more frequently and in tandem to enhance … Read more

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Upgraded Asta Powerproject BIM Enables 5-D Digital Construction Planning

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The latest version of Elecosoft’s Asta Powerproject BIM brings improvements in 4-D planning to help customers improve efficiency. This third iteration of the BIM product also boasts enriched cost estimation capabilities—working more closely with cost estimation systems to enable contractors to build a 5-D integrated project view. Asta Powerproject BIM enables users to drag and drop objects into the 3-D view, as well as split 3-D elements related to new sub-tasks, to meet changing demands on individual construction projects. It also allows for quick comparisons with planned and actual schedule plans, detailing the complete visual impact in 3-D. Among the … Read more

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Tech-Savvy Teamwork

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How superintendents can lead the charge with technology By Jake Bowron Introducing new technologies in the workplace can produce bumpy rides even in the best circumstances. Integrating techno-tools into construction operations offers its own challenges. Here’s an unusual proposition: superintendents should volunteer for a bigger leadership role in helping project teams make the adjustment. I’m not suggesting that superintendents turn into gluttons for punishment. However, as a superintendent who recently accepted a position as director of field technology, I’m convinced that greater involvement by superintendents in introducing technology can produce big benefits. In the field, there’s no questioning technology’s ability … Read more

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