Tag: Process
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High Performance Pavement: A Process Driven Business Paradigm
While at the 2024 IGNITE Construction Summit, which took place at the Renaissance Esmerelda Resort in Palm Springs, CA, I sat at a breakfast table with Andre Neidich, CEO and Co-Founder of Pothole Heroes, and his dynamic COO, Zach Young. Far from our original introduction, we first met at the 2022 IGNITE in Clearwater, FL,…
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4 Honest Lessons I Learned from the Other Side of the RFP Process
A year ago, I began a quest to completely reimagine our website for Horst Construction. Knowing this would be a costly endeavor in terms of both time and dollars, I diligently researched partnership options and referrals. I worked to clarify our goals and gather input from the team. After a few weeks, I was ready…
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How to Prepare for the Escrow Process
Navigating the escrow process can be one of the most critical—and sometimes daunting—steps in a home renovation or purchase journey. This phase serves as a safeguard, ensuring that both buyers and sellers fulfill their obligations before the transaction is finalized. At Sweeten, we’re experts at all things general contractors. Here’s how Sweeten works: We pre-screen…
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RAVA3Pro and Solibri Collaborate Toward a Digital Building Permitting Process in Finland
Finland’s building permit process is set to revolutionize with the new construction act, making it BIM model-based. This transition is made possible by the model specifications and inspection rules of the RAVA3Pro project, with Solibri as the lead executor. While design in the construction sector has been digitalized and BIM, Building Information Modeling, is gaining…
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How Product Identifiers Can Enhance Your Building Process
Have you considered the significance of a product’s bar code when you shop at a supermarket? The 50-year-old invention contains a standardized product number essential to the operation of the whole value chain: the retail store, the distribution center, the transportation company, the warehouse, the vendor, and the producer. Standardized numbers also allow us consumers…
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Designing the Process to Deliver Zero-Carbon Construction – Computational Design in Practice
Computational Design is generating increasing interest in the construction industry as well as a certain amount of confusion. It is not parametric design; instead it takes parametric design to the next level. It is a set of methods that will define how we design structures over the next decades. With Computational Design, you don’t design…
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Tietoa Launches an Online Platform for the Review Process for Architectural Competitions
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Digitalizing the Building Permit Process
In this podcast episode, Aarni speaks with Francesca Noardo and Rick Klooster who gave presentations at this year’s first WDBE pre-event which took place in Tallinn, Estonia. The event was about BIM-based Building Permit Process Automation. The WDBE pre-event took place on the 20th of February 2020 and was hosted by the Estonian Ministry of Economic…
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Digitalizing the Hospital Design Requirements Process
Decisions made at the early stages of a hospital project can have a huge impact on its life cycle value. To make sure that a hospital will be a good investment, its future users should be involved in helping set out the design requirements. A Finnish team of experts wanted to see if they could…
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IoT: Take Guessing Out of the Concrete Drying Process
Flooring, tiling, or painting on a concrete surface that is insufficiently dry can end up being a disaster. An experimental project recently used IoT sensors and AI to determine when it is safe to start finishing concrete surfaces. Haste and Imperfect Conditions Lead to Failure To successfully first cure and then dry concrete requires specific…