Technology Is Key to Bright Energy Sector Prospects - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Oil and gas sector owners and operators, E/P/C contractors and the hardware and software vendors who support them, left a conclave in Houston at the end of January with upbeat predictions for the sector.
Publication Date: 30 January , 2008
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Publication Date: 04 December , 2007
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BIM Survey Delves Into Users' Desires and Expectations - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A new report takes a read on what the emerging class of users and would-be-users of Building Information Modeling want from BIM software, based on a survey of more than 650 subscribers to an online constru
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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New Services and Gadgets Show There's Still Life in IT - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 10 October , 2007
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$250-Million Project Plans To Link Africa to Internet - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Funding delays may add two months to the schedule for a program to link eastern African countries to the rest of the world via fiber-optic cable. Crews from Alcatel-Lucent are in a holding pattern on the $
Publication Date: 05 September, 2007
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New Analysis Tool Zips Through Site Development Alternatives - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Like a spy-gadget that speeds through thousands of electronic code combinations before triumphantly unlocking a door, new software and services review tens of thousands of site planning options to recommen
Publication Date: 23 May , 2007
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Capital Construction Program Commits to Unified Data System - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
As enterprises go, states are up there with the big ones, so Ohio’s deployment of a statewide capital project management system integrated with its enterprise resource planning system is significant.
Publication Date: 02 May , 2007
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Tiny Scanner Has Light Touch - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 02 May , 2007
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E-Construction Hampered By Inability To Share 3-D Models - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Boosters of collaborative, virtual design and construction at the American Institute of Steel Construction Inc. are seriously concerned that the industry is focusing too much on building information modeli
Publication Date: 25 April , 2007
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FIATECH Raises Hand for Technology Adoption - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 25 April , 2007
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Location, Location, Location: Service Firm Sees Opportunity - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A business-information provider, whose services include monitoring real estate for lenders, announced on April 16 that it will begin selling access to its vast database of exceedingly accurate parcel infor
Publication Date: 18 April , 2007
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3D Designer Cuts Tools Loose - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 11 April , 2007
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Service Delivers Superfund Maps - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A San Francisco-based environmental information management service has recently expanded its Web-based, map-referenced products to serve up U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund data referenced on
Publication Date: 11 April , 2007
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Washington State DOT Uses Popular Video Website To Explain Risk - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 11 April , 2007
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Building Groups Seek Unity on Interoperability and BIM - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
As more industry sectors weigh in on the future of Building Information Modeling and other interoperability issues, the International Alliance for Interoperability and the National Institute of Building Sc
Publication Date: 02 April , 2007
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Cell Phone Has All the Bells and Whistles In a Case as Hard as Nails - ENR.com | McGraw-Hill Construction
Cell phones take a beating on the jobsite, getting dropped, banged, dunked and exposed to all kinds of abuse in the course of a day's work.
Publication Date: 11 December , 2006
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Document Sharing Jumps Out of the Box with Instant Meeting Tool - ENR.com | McGraw-Hill Construction
Adobe Systems has poured out inventions with the new release of its Adobe Acrobat product line, a toolbox brimming with an impressive array of potential for business collaboration.
Publication Date: 11 December , 2006
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Federal Agencies Look for Speedy BIM Implementation -ENR.com | McGraw-Hill Construction
The continually evolving concept of building information modeling is gaining a bit more definition in the eyes of federal agencies. The U.S. General Services Administration Nov. 1 released a provisional ve
Publication Date: 13 November , 2006
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New Tool Translates on the Fly - ENR.com | McGraw-Hill Construction
In mid-October, IBM Corp. shipped to U.S. forces in Iraq the first 35 units of a new product that turns spoken Arabic to spoken English, and English to Arabic, back and forth, on the fly. First testers are
Publication Date: 06 November , 2006
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System Automatically Captures Handwritten Notes as Digital Files - ENR.com | McGraw-Hill Construction
Add a ballpoint pen to the list of handheld computers for capturing data in the field…or at least a digital pen with a camera in the tip, dedicated paper and software to acquaint them with each other.
Publication Date: 06 November , 2006
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AGC Unveils New Building Information Modeling Guide -ENR.com | McGraw-Hill Construction
Building information modeling is sweeping through the industry and a new guide for contractors from the Associated General Contractors of America is designed to help them keep up.
Publication Date: 09 October , 2006
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Airborne Geologic Survey Tool Is Fast, Accurate - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A treasure hunter is on the prowl, seeking oil and minerals with a flying divining rod that he says can map the earth's secrets with great accuracy 20,000 feet-and further-underground. The device detects,
Publication Date: 07 August , 2006
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Good Advice On Tough Choices - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Finding the right business software is as easy as pouring time and money into a hole. Or, you can try a new Web service for free and cut to the chase.
Publication Date: 07 August , 2006
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Collection System Links All - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 08 May , 2006
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Project and Portfolio Management Vendor Takes on New Partners - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The founders of a project and portfolio management system whose scheduling products have become standard tools for many industry firms announced on May 1 that they have taken in two venture capital partner
Publication Date: 08 May , 2006
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Water Issues To Be Studied from Space - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The European Space Agency, a group funded by 15 European countries to promote space exploration and research, has commissioned a $300,000 project using satellite imagery to assess the responses of bays in
Publication Date: 24 April , 2006
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New Export Tool Puts Ideas on the Map for All To See - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
No matter how difficult the construction of a project turns out to be, most planners would agree that getting non-technical stakeholders to understand the design in the first place may be one of the hardes
Publication Date: 27 March , 2006
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Cuts Construction Noise But Allows Conversion - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Noise cancellation headphones have found a comfort zone among air travelers and music afficionados, but now they may also be finding a sweet spot as a piece of construction equipment.
Publication Date: 30 January , 2006
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Laser Templator Could Go Far - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At just under $9,750, it's not exactly a poor man's laser scanner. But the LT55 "Laser Templator," which is engineered for a narrow function, has a niche that is only defined by its users' imagin
Publication Date: 30 January , 2006
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New version of document software gives viewers access to 3-D - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
If you feel cut off and excluded from projects that use 3-D drawings because you can't view them, or if others on a project can't view your 3-D files because they don't have the CAD software that created t
Publication Date: 30 January , 2006
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Survey Finds Readers Bullish on Technology - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Almost 80% of ENR's readers involved in purchasing information technology tools feel improving project communication and collaboration is the most important contribution technology will make to their compa
Publication Date: 23 January , 2006
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Technology Show Opens Softly - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Information technology seekers kicked off the World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas Jan. 16 with quiet seminars. Speakers at the Technology for Construction event claimed incremental progress on Build
Publication Date: 23 January , 2006
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Goal Is To Make the Tools Easier To Buy, Deploy, Use and Maintain - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
After 22-years developing a tribe of scheduling and execution products, Primavera Systems is blending them into a single construction management tool. Simply called "Primavera," the product is sc
Publication Date: 08 August , 2005
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Smart Filters for Respirators May Lead to Security Applications - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In research with narrow purpose but broad potential, scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have teamed with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to develop a chemical sensor to fit
Publication Date: 05 August , 2005
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Finnish Scheduler Aims To Balance Resources and Crews - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The advancement of 3-D and 4-D construction modeling is opening new scheduling possibilities, and vendors are reaching for them. Graphisoft, the maker of the object-based design modeler ArchiCAD, which cam
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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Standards Database Created - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The American National Standards Institute has launched a Homeland Security Standards Database to air new standards being devised for everything from first response to building code revision, data managemen
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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Surveillance System Finds Optimum Vantage To See It All - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A young Israeli company is selling Israel’s defense ministry a tool that can show the view from an imaginary platform above any point on a digital terrain model and automatically determine the optimum
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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Apostles of Open Data Share Vision of Frictionless Future
Satisfaction ruled at the Kongressenter in Oslo, Norway, as 15 software developers networked their laptops and performed a miracle before 300 true-believers of open data exchange.
Publication Date: 13 June , 2005
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Security Tops Worry List, But Few Use Protection
The research firm Harris Interactive, Rochester, N.Y., conducted the Document Exchange Study for the AEC Industry for Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif. Adobe was not identified as the sponsor to the 965 architecture, engineering and construct
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Publication Date: 06 June , 2005
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Hydraulics Tools Test Water Delivery —Large and Small
Software developers are refining tools to simulate pressure and flow scenarios that affect the design of water systems in networks as large as cities and as small as individual buildings.
Publication Date: 09 May , 2005
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Monitors in Reno Report Wirelessly
In Reno, Nev., where "tilt" usually refers to out-of-control poker players, the issue of tilting has taken on a whole new meaning and spawned a wireless monitoring innovation as contractors dig a
Publication Date: 09 May , 2005
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Service Eliminates Guessing
Many companies have bidding and pricing down to a science–and then the fudge-factors of "overhead," are trundled in.
Publication Date: 09 May , 2005
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Building Codes Made Simple
Online clearinghouses for building codes are trying to make ease-of-use a hallmark of code research.
Publication Date: 11 April , 2005
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Laptop Puts Security First
If you are serious about security and want a magnesium-block notebook thieves can’t even boot, much less hack into without an encrypted key, one California-based manufacturer has a device you should s
Publication Date: 11 April , 2005
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Technology Group Uses Millions as Lure
An industry consortium working to promulgate new technology in construction is hosting an online auction in which participants get $1 million to invest via sealed bids among 15 categories of new technology
Publication Date: 11 April , 2005
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Operators of London Underground Also Create Asset Systems
One of the spin-offs of privatizing London’s vast subway network has been the creation of a cutting-edge asset-management system, says an IT project manager with one of the operators.
Publication Date: 04 April , 2005
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Web Service for Contractors
A company that has reviewed and evaluated software for construction-industry clients since 1986 has launched a free Website to match products to contractors’ needs.
Publication Date: 04 April , 2005
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Little Trailers Packed with Tech Take CAD to Worksite
The trailers have proven so useful that St. Louis-based Payne already has five and is planning to start number six this spring. "We used to pick everything up and put it in a truck, take it out and set it up in the main job trailer," h
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Publication Date: 14 February , 2005
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Safety of Wastewater Treatment Systems at Issue
A national water quality research foundation is asking software developers to devise a tool to help wastewater treatment managers analyze hazardous materials release scenarios. The Water Environment Resear
Publication Date: 14 February , 2005
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CAD for the Mac Makes Its Return
The developers of some early CAD software for Macintosh, DOS and UNIX machines are proving, once again, that you can’t keep good ideas down. Their products have been sold, shuffled, reconstituted and
Publication Date: 07 February , 2005
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Laser Links to CAD in the Field
Gabriel Delisle stands beside a Leica Total Station. A laptop PC fitted to its tripod displays a 3D CAD model. Delisle clicks a point at the top of a column on screen and the surveying device instantly rot
Publication Date: 07 February , 2005
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GSA to Require Building Information Models by FY 2006
The event, chaired by ENR consulting editor and event moderator Scott Shuster, began with a nine-person panel discussion mining the realities and challenges of BIM–the 3 and 4D building models embedded with detailed specific information abo
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Publication Date: 21 January , 2005
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Data Is Clue To The Future
For the past 6 years a St. Paul, Minn., company has gathered scraps left by National Weather Service forecasters, the stream of hour-by-hour observations of atmospheric conditions over North America which
Publication Date: 20 September, 2004
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Model-based Design Hits Road
Like continental drift, some fundamental shifts come gradually. The expanding use of three-dimensional, intelligent, model-based design is an example. Autodesk’s Civil 3D 2005 is its newest wrinkle.
Publication Date: 20 September, 2004
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Speeding Test Report Along
Seeking increased efficiency for itself and its customers, a Florida engineering services firm has built a system to automate distribution of its construction materials testing reports electronically.
Publication Date: 20 September, 2004
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Evacuation Management System Is Whirlpool of Data
"It just takes seconds now to get the data," says Donald McElveen, SCDOT’s manager of geographic information systems and mapping. He says the tool lets officials compare evacuation traffic to normal, watch for slow-downs and decid
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Publication Date: 13 September, 2004
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Five Stars For Museum's Building Show Website
There is a bonus feature to a new museum show about engineers’ and architects’ inventive use of powerful computers and modeling technology to design extraordinarily tall structures: a landmark Website that allows anyone interested to s
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Publication Date: 16 August , 2004
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Software Juggles Materials
Engineers concerned with differential creep and shrinkage stress during the construction of pre- and post-tensioned concrete and cable-stayed bridges will find improved analysis tools in a new version of Bridge Designer II, released July 19.
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Publication Date: 16 August , 2004
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Utility Gets The Joints Too
Designers planning for efficient construction may find a new product called DelphiCad an interesting and inexpensive utility.
Publication Date: 16 August , 2004
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Water Planner Goes With Flow
Bentley Systems Inc. has bought Haestad Methods Inc., a 25-year-old developer of water resource planning soft-ware.
Publication Date: 16 August , 2004
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