$1-Billion Jigsaw Puzzle Has Builder Modeling Supply Chains - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The virtual heart of the $1-billion project, whose lead contractor is Skanska USA Buildings Inc., Boston, is a Web-browser-accessible, color-coded, 4D building information model that tells the team at a glance the status of 3,200 precast risers
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Publication Date: 23 April , 2008
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South Korean Research in Electronic Tagging Is Forging Ahead - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The DoallTech Corp. is com-mercializing technology developed in conjunction with Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Suwon, South Korea, for an RFID-based project management system for daily labor control. It has been implemented at about 400 cons
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Publication Date: 23 April , 2008
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GLOBAL SOURCEBOOK 2007: Growing Global Telecommunications Market Reaching Developing World - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 19 December , 2007
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Demands for Better Access Propel Telecom Market Forward - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
As customers demand better access and government regulators require increased reliability, companies in the telecommunications market are dishing out billions of dollars in new projects to contractors.
Publication Date: 19 September, 2007
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Chicago's Permitting Overhaul Opens Door to Going Paperless- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
When it came time for Chicago to overhaul its permitting system four years ago, city officials thought that giving different-sized projects dedicated express lanes might clear up some of the gridlock. The
Publication Date: 02 May , 2007
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Louisiana Gears Up To Enforce New Statewide Building Code - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Gearing up to enforce the historic Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code, passed in the wake of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, has been no easy task. Of the state’s 64 parishes, 57 didn’t even have a code office when the storm h
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Publication Date: 02 May , 2007
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Digital Tools Make Possible An E-Permitting Utopia - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The year was 1982. The place was New Orleans. The meeting was convened by the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards Inc. The problem—the need for regulatory reform—was l
Publication Date: 02 May , 2007
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New Linear Accelerator Project Is Giving Science X-Ray Vision - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Science’s most brilliant breakthroughs today happen on a scale so small that researchers can study them only with light wavelengths short enough to catch individual atoms in their beam. The internati
Publication Date: 16 April , 2007
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Innovative Tools Help Companies Cut the Data Beast Down to Size - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Suffering high costs and deep frustration used to be a rite of passage when growing companies decided it was time to integrate data systems to improve enterprise operations. But things have changed. Nowada
Publication Date: 26 February , 2007
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Digital Cameras' Dirty Little Secret: Images Multiply Like Rabbits - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Digital images are becoming more and more valuable to the companies whose work they record, and to the photographers to whom they, at least initially, belong. But they are also multiplying by the thousand
Publication Date: 25 December , 2006
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Research and Design Is Changing the Shape of the Material World - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Concrete—that gray, monolithic building material—is getting a face-lift. Inventors are reshaping it to do more, last longer and show off. A new kind of “translucent” concrete uses f
Publication Date: 09 October , 2006
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The 'Reading Room' for New Materials - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Running late on a project and short on inspiration? At Material ConneXion, designers can jump onto the Internet or visit one of four international libraries showcasing 3,000 of the most intriguing substanc
Publication Date: 09 October , 2006
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Early Adopters Find the Best Models Are Digital Virtuosos - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Power-users rolling more and more data into digital design and construction models are finding that getting the right data, at the right level of detail, and presenting it well-purposed for the task at han
Publication Date: 02 October , 2006
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Talking Shop With An Astronaut: Construction in Space - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
ENR spoke with NASA astronaut, Col. William Surles (Bill) McArthur, Jr., on Aug. 8, the day the Atlantis Crew left the training facility at the Johnson Space Center to head to the launch pad at the Kennedy
Publication Date: 14 August , 2006
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The Next Shuttle Launch Restarts Space Construction - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 14 August , 2006
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Nuts for the Stars: Specialized Tools and Fasteners for Construction In Space - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
When the astronauts operating the robot arms of the space shuttle lift the big modules into place to be fastened to the space station, motor-driven bolts will spin into captive nuts to make the structural
Publication Date: 11 August , 2006
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Safeguarding Data Has Companies Locking Digital Files - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
When executives want the ultimate in secure communications, they close the door, pull out a pen, write key words on a scrap of paper and expose it to the other party. Then they destroy the paper. That&rsqu
Publication Date: 03 June , 2006
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Demand Drives Homebuilders to Build Fast And Innovate - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A powerful housing market is driving homebuilders to consolidate and invest in technology for prefabrication and supply chain integration. The boom has big companies, with their leverage and capital, growi
Publication Date: 09 January , 2006
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Soaring into the Virtual World - Build It First Digitally - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
"It’s a breakthrough change in the way we do business," smiles August Olivier, GM’s director of capital projects. He was talking about two automotive plants under construction in Michigan that take the idea of virtual design
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Publication Date: 10 October , 2005
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Soaring into the Virtual World - Build It First Digitally - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
"It’s a breakthrough change in the way we do business," smiles August Olivier, GM’s director of capital projects. He was talking about two automotive plants under construction in Michigan that take the idea of virtual design
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Publication Date: 10 October , 2005
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Making Calls Over the Internet May Be The Next Big Thing
Talk is cheap–and powerfully interconnected, geographically indifferent, resource-filled, data-enriched and inexpensively managed by in-house staff when company phone systems fling voices across the I
Publication Date: 02 May , 2005
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Data Demand Sparks Race to Bring Fiber Optics Homem
The fiber-optic revolution is at the door. Two decades of cable-running have laid the bones of a national high-speed data network. Now, an explosive drive is under way to bring the long-awaited, last-mile
Publication Date: 07 March , 2005
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Sensor-Laced Concrete Promises To Be Strong And Smart Savings
Sensor technology is riding high on a decade of heady advances in electronics, computers and communications. As sure as concrete, sensors embedded into highways, bridges and buildings are rising stars of construction.
Publication Date: 17 January , 2005
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Researchers Are Getting Serious About Electronic Tracking Tags
Even if all you are trying to do is keep up with small tools or boxes of materials on a construction job, it still comes down to the same problem: keeping track of your stuff.
Publication Date: 13 December , 2004
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Online Management Tools Excel At Empowering Project Teams
Web-based project collaboration software has come of age. Although many first-generation products vanished with the dot-com bust, a core of vendors and users continued to refine the tools, experiment and l
Publication Date: 11 October , 2004
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10 Electronic Technologies That Changed Construction
Trace the roots of just about any useful device or capability derived from electronic technology and you will find yourself wading in research and development dipping back generations, even centuries.
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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CAD Pioneers Gave Desktop PCs A Full Range of Electronic Drafting
Examining company notes from the birth of Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif., and its design software, AutoCAD, reminds us of the original dreams behind computer-assisted design.
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Calculators Built on Microchips Doomed Slide Rules
In 1972 microprocessors hit the market as the key components of the first handheld electronic calculator. The nameplate read simply "Hewlett Packard" and the device could perform logarithmic and
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Collaboration Is Evolving From Sharing to Managing
In early 1995, it was big news when Winter Park Construction, Maitland, Fla., launched a home page on the World Wide Web. E-mail already proliferated in most big companies but was primarily for internal co
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Contractors Were Early Adopters of Mobile Comms
"Construction people have to see a real return on investment before they adopt, but when they do, they adopt quickly," says Dick Farris, a co-founder of Primavera Systems Inc., Bala Cynwyd, Pa. "The construction people were among
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Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Lasers Have Become Common Element in Industry’s Toolbox
Originally an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, lasers were first conceived by Albert Einstein, who theorized in 1916 that light could pass through a substance to create more light. Following research in later
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Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Location-Based Technologies Track Construction Operations
A large part of the human experience is trying to answer the interminable questions "Where are we?" and "Why?" Perhaps the highly intuitive nature of global positioning systems in pinpo
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Network Logic Was Aided By Mainframe Power
Two organizations were the spawning grounds for the new technology. In 1956, E.I. du Pont de Nemours Co., Wilmington, Del., started studying the application of new techniques to run its mammoth engineering and construction projects. The company&
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Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Personal Computers Empowered Users and Launched a New Age
The advent of personal computing tools in the early 1980s began to slowly awaken millions of business users to the advantages of working in digital data.
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Speed and Power of Computation Opens Doors to New Possibilities
The migration of powerful computing technology from the labs to the desktops brought construction a stream of analysis software –spawned from spreadsheets and calculation programs capable of swiftly p
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Speeding the Pace of Business and Shrinking the Globe
Next to the telephone, the fax machine is the lowest common denominator of electronic communications in business. If you have nothing else, chances are you have a fax, and that is enough to tuck documents
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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What’s Next?
Looking forward, industry deep-thinkers say the near term holds useful tools ready for work that need only be appreciated, adapted and applied. The future holds inventions yet to be defined.
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Complicated New Work Trucks Are Testing Many Mechanics' Skill
Many people familiar with the dramatic changes taking place in work trucks powered by diesel engines are groaning, grumbling and complaining about what those changes are doing to their businesses. Federal
Publication Date: 01 March , 2004
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Delivering On Promises
It has taken years, but mountains of geospatial information have been raised by the forces of time, thought and money. Infrastructure data and topographic features–anything with x-y-z coordinates
Publication Date: 16 February , 2004
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Publication Date: 01 January , 2004
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Project Teams Use Digital Cameras To Shoot It, Then Share It
A digital camera is a powerful construction tool. Being able to capture a meaningful image and e-mail it to colleagues is an ideal combination for project managers. It allows architects, engineers, contrac
Publication Date: 29 December , 2003
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Top Managers See It All With Products that Prowl For Performance Data
Challenges in the construction business often come into focus around issues of individual projects and their execu
Publication Date: 08 December , 2003
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Digital Tools Called In To Communicate Sensitive Bypass Plans
As final design work nears completion and construction of approach roads begins, planners are saluting the contributions of laser mapping and three-dimensional modeling. The technologies helped them steer
Publication Date: 11 August , 2003
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Fast Lasers Poised for Iraq May Be New Fix For Old Plants
Contractors taking on the reconstruction of Iraq will step into a world of unknowns as they start rebuilding the land's dilapidated, damaged and poorly documented infrastructure. Some firms angling for the
Publication Date: 14 July , 2003
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Firms Are Using Tool Tracking for Smarter Asset Management
It is no wonder that firms operating many large, expensive machines on a daily basis sometimes tend to overlook small items such as reciprocating saws and battery-powered drills, which can slip through the
Publication Date: 07 July , 2003
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Taking Job Data To The Air
The idea of cutting the communication cord is appealing. Vendors are gathering like bees to nectar to offer tools to enhance wireless exchanges between field crews and project data.
Publication Date: 23 June , 2003
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Stadium Engineer Drives Toward ‘Paperless' Project
Shoehorning a football field and seating bowl, complete with suites, into the horseshoe-shaped perimeter bay of a narrow venue built 80 years ago for track and field was enough to drive many toward distrac
Publication Date: 14 April , 2003
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Business Methods Change By Tapping the Internet
Publication Date: 03 March , 2003
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Electric Utilities Dip Toes Into Emerging Technology
Several systems designed to piggyback high-speed data transmissions over power lines are in field trials around the country and, paradoxically, if they are successful they could breathe new life into the f
Publication Date: 09 December , 2002
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Keeping Tabs on Software Yields Efficiency and Savings
Buy what you use and use what you buy. This sounds like a pretty simple and sound policy, but it is tough to execute when it comes to software.
Publication Date: 09 December , 2002
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Special Report - High-tech Protection Moves From Lab to Marketplace
"What Sept. 11 has done is accelerate development and deployment for projects with security applications," says Duane Lindner, deputy director of chemical and biological programs for Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia, N.M. Because t
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Publication Date: 23 September, 2002
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Coal Mining Region Needs Better Maps Underground
Two recent coal mine accidents in Appalachia have led to calls for establishment of national standards for documentation of underground mines and for a reassessment of the state of technologies, such as re
Publication Date: 16 September, 2002
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Lasers Go Into Overdrive, Pushed by Technology Gains
It may be that the only thing faster than a laser scanner these days is the pace of change in the laser
Publication Date: 16 September, 2002
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New Players Push Project Management to the Web
The emerging electronic bidding process for construction projects is gaining new players. A Pennsylvania vendor has rolled out a system adaptable for public and private owners and a New York firm is taking
Publication Date: 16 September, 2002
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Personal Workspace Control Is Not Yet a Home Run
People working in office buildings, especially in the increasingly common open-space, cubicle-filled architecture, gripe most often about being too hot or too cold and having too much noise around them. Bu
Publication Date: 03 June , 2002
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Researchers Challenged to Improve Construction
It's an exciting time to be involved in construction and building technology, says James T. Garret, a civil and environmental engineering professor and lab director at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsbu
Publication Date: 03 June , 2002
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The Corps' Doctor Will Make House Calls to Check Design
While not typically considered a software developer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is turning some heads with a Web-based product developed in-house to improve the design review process. The Corps and s
Publication Date: 03 June , 2002
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Web-based System Tracks Work and Keeps It on Track Projects
Officials in Jacksonville, Fla., had two concerns when the city embarked on a $1-billion construction program when another $3 billion of work from other agencies also was getting under way: Would there be
Publication Date: 03 June , 2002
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Building Digitally Provides Schedule, Cost Efficiencies
In the ongoing quest to improve project planning and anticipate field problems before they occur, a growing number of construction professionals are using computer technology to build projects digitally be
Publication Date: 25 February , 2002
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High-Tech Tools and Hard, Hard Work At FOB Rhino
Long before the first U.S. soldiers hit the ground in Afghanistan, military construction specialists began studying, analyzing, calculating and planning for the support the troops would need. Military engi
Publication Date: 25 February , 2002
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