Mounting Volume of Junk Defies Filters, Delete Keys
Many Monty Python fans rank the Spam Skit, where a waitress recites a litany of breakfast options featuring spam, among their favorite sketches from the troupe's 1970s heyday. Somewhere along the way a cun
Publication Date: 25 February , 2002
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Handhelds Hold up Well For Variety of Site Uses
As hardware vendors continue to cram more computing power into smaller packages, design and construction firms are beginning to realize tangible benefits. Once novelties, handheld devices are becoming more
Publication Date: 05 November , 2001
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Protecting Electronic Data Becomes A Burning Issue
The range of threats to business data has sharply increased in recent months, pushed by the increasing sophistication of hackers and thieves, and now by the specter of terrorism and cyber warfare.
Publication Date: 05 November , 2001
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Web 'Shopping Carts' Speed Construction Permitting
Call it amazon.com meets construction. More and more municipalities are linking with online vendors to develop a Web-based "shopping cart" approach for those needing to obtain required constructi
Publication Date: 05 November , 2001
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High-End Software has Low-Cost Alternatives
When searching for affordable information technology solutions, architecture engineering and construction firms often find bargains in niche products, such as general computer utilities or shareware progra
Publication Date: 13 August , 2001
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Industry Firms Cash In on the Value of Their Expertise
We tend to picture the software and information technology tools in the industry as coming from the superfarms–big software companies that sell planning and design programs, estimating, scheduling an
Publication Date: 13 August , 2001
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Learning to Share is Tougher Than Anyone Anticipated
In the quest for smoother digital data sharing and exchange between various architecture, engineering and construction software platforms, most stakeholders are eyeing the same target: interoperability. Th
Publication Date: 13 August , 2001
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School Officials Learn Lesson in Managing Booming Work
Keeping track of nearly 6,000 school improvement projects at once was a tough assignment for education officials in Arizona. So they turned to a handy educational resource–a large Web-based extranet
Publication Date: 13 August , 2001
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A Whirlwind of Change is Transforming Plan Rooms
Technology is converging that promises to sharply reduce construction’s endless printing, scanning, copying and transmitting of paper plans, specifications and documents.
Publication Date: 11 June , 2001
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Broadband Casts Broad Net Over Construction Jobsites
Electronic communication is here to stay, but reliability and cost issues continue to plague jobsite managers when it comes to high-speed or broadband access. Many are still shopping around for the best tr
Publication Date: 11 June , 2001
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Free or Low-Cost Tools Increase High-Tech Return
When discussing investment in information technology, owners of architecture, engineering and construction firms often cringe. IT spending is up and systems and tools can cost a bundle.
Publication Date: 11 June , 2001
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Industry Dot-Coms March to Slower, Steadier Pace
The numbers are impressive but not flattering. Three of the industry’s Internet project management and collaboration companies, Bricsnet, Buzzsaw. com and Citadon, together lost almost $200 million l
Publication Date: 11 June , 2001
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Subcontractor Customizes IT Upgrades to Push Growth
One Florida specialty contractor has seen firsthand the challenges in making information technology management a corporate priority. But executives say that the gain has been well worth the pain.
Publication Date: 11 June , 2001
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Liability Disclaimers Lead Way As Digital Age Issues Weigh In
Publication Date: 26 February , 2001
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New Laws, Technologies Push Signing on The Dotted Screen Offer Important Safeguards
Publication Date: 26 February , 2001
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States Turn Onto Web For Highway Bidding
Late one night last year, a Kentucky specialty contractor bidding a $2-million guardrail job in Georgia learned that one of its suppliers had dropped a key price. The bids were scheduled to be opened in ju
Publication Date: 26 February , 2001
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