Digital COM
One of the biggest challenges facing project teams today is
determining how to effectively communicate and collaborate across
disciplines, entities and project phases while maintaining a single
source of truth. This blog will bring together voices from throughout
the industry and start conversations about how project teams can
better collaborate now. Follow Sasha Reed as she writes about real
world examples of collaboration-related issues that various AEC firms
are encountering and how they are using technology to solve them. Stay
informed as Sasha shares ways to continually improve on best
practices, project policies and technology usage in the future. If you
would like to have your project featured on this blog, please contact
Sasha at sasha@bluebeamsoftware.com.
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I had the opportunity to travel to Denmark and London to participate in two separate BIM conferences last month. In Denmark I spoke at a regional conference, sharing information on leveraging PDF to facilitate digital workflows downstream. Then I traveled onto London to attend BIM Show Live...
With all of the buzz surrounding mobility and connectivity in the tech world, it’s no surprise the construction industry is looking for ways to capitalize on these emerging technologies.
Today we are seeing more and more mobile devices on jobsites. Superintendents are swapping out clipboards for...
As you are well aware, BIM is steadily gaining momentum here in the US and abroad. In fact just this week I read a press release about a major city agency standardizing their BIM practices. You know as well as I do that when a city or municipality starts talking about standardizing on "future...
During a recent customer visit with a strategic customer, I had the pleasure of solving a challenge on the spot. Nothing is better as a software solution provider than to have a customer articulate a critical need and be able to say, “We have an answer for that!”
To better understand this customer’...
It seems you can’t browse an industry website today without hearing about some new app, software, or hardware package that is going to push the bounds on the traditional ways in which design and construction are done. Case in point, a recent BD+C article about Google Glass asked the question, “will...
It’s not every day I get to speak with a project owner and gain valuable insight from the top of the chain. However, this past week, I was able to do just that during the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) Southern California Chapter’s Awards Banquet. Some of the top project...
Over the last week and a half I’ve been on the road attending two technology conferences: Launch Festival and South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW). Both of these conferences are platforms for startups and established companies to launch their new products. At Launch SF, I was able to speak with...
A commenter posed an interesting question to a recent post of mine: “Would you rather work with a facilitator or manager?” It is his observation that in our process to manage communication and interactions on projects we often times are more concerned with control than keeping everyone informed....
While browsing through some magazines on a recent flight, I read a cautionary tale about one of the first BIM-related lawsuits. The parties involved in this university building project kept their identities private, but it’s been reported that they settled out of court for millions of dollars. The...
Last week we discussed the importance of taking a step back to fully understand your processes prior to making productivity improvements. Just as critical to the process—and perhaps more critical to your success—is the pilot group. Who better to put new software or hardware to the test than your in...
