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[APP] View Project Documents, Designs on the Go with Autodesk Constructware Field App

Autodesk’s Constructware Field mobile app provides Constructware users a place to securely view, download and upload AEC project documents and designs from anywhere

Use the device’s built-in camera to take and upload site photos directly to the Constructware cloud for later review or linking to project workflows.

Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other

How New Drone Rules are Changing the Path of Construction UAVs

The FAA’s rules for drone use don’t allow everything on advocates' wish list, but represent a major step toward adoption and more creative uses of drones in construction

Drone on Construction Site

Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other

Caterpillar Offers Tech Support to Build Your Profit with Smart Construction

The dawning age of smart iron has inspired equipment makers to offer services that help their customers quickly climb the technology learning curve to build more efficiently

Improvements in construction efficiency at the other end of the technology learning curve has inspired equipment manufacturers such as Caterpillar to create service programs that help contractors climb that curve. Engaging with them should lift both businesses.

[APP] Access Your Desktop from Your Mobile Device with Citrix Receiver

The Citrix Receiver mobile app lets users access enterprise files, applications and desktops while on the go

If your company uses Citrix, you have the freedom to work on your favorite device from wherever you are.

[APP] PENTA Mobile Field Service App Works Regardless of Network Availability

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The app provides technician users a list of assignments, details about each assignment, the associated customer, service history, customer equipment details and history, parts lists, task lists and more

Field technicians can also use the app to record customer equipment information, labor, materials, parts, tools, field notes and more.

[APP] Access Over 100 Construction Calculators with the Android Handyman App

The Handyman Calculator is a complete construction calculator with simple inputs for construction professionals or DIY

The Android Handyman Calculator app helps calculate materials, track time spent, manage to-do lists and saves calculations to notepad.

Construction Technology

ASCEND Conference Highlights Commercial Drone Use

Inspection and construction professionals will find advice and immediate applications for using drones in their work

Financing, Insurance & Leasing

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Market Worth $7.64 Billion by 2022

North American construction is expected to take the largest BIM market share; the report anticipates a significant rise in industrial application of BIM

Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other

[VIDEO] Retooling Doubles Robotic Mason's Production

Best suited for flat wall sections, the SAM100 OS 2.0 Robotic Mason is meant to augment human masons’ work while attracting younger, more technologically oriented workers

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Business Services

Install Proactive Field ‘Must Do’ Systems to Keep Your Construction Business Operating the Way You Want

‘Must-Do’ field systems and standards get everyone doing business the same way, building your bottom-line while your stress level drops

Identify the most important pro-active field procedures you want done the same way every time on every project by every foreman, superintendent or project manager. Then sit down and create a system to make sure everyone will do those things exactly the same way you want them done.

[APP] Connect Field Staff and Office with FieldAccess Construction Web App

Web-based application allows any field staff with a mobile device and web access to stay in sync with the office and upload data to ERP systems

With FieldAccess, time cards, payroll data, billing and materials usage are instantly added to the ERP/accounting system eliminating multiple entry and even improving accuracy.

Labor & Workforce Development

8 Skills of an Effective Construction General Manager

As contractors face a future that includes their own retirement or retirement of senior leaders, the general manager role might be one that, if not already in place, could provide a nice alternative or option

For some construction companies, the need to have a single overseer of the operations is critical, and a general manager could fill that role.

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