Tag: Work
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40+ Companies Exhibiting at Work Truck Week for First Time
NTEA has announced that many companies will be exhibiting at the 2025 Work Truck Week and many of those will be at the show for the first time. According to the NTEA: New commercial vehicle bodies, propulsion systems, and equipment are among the dozens of products, technology and services launching at Work Truck Week 2025. Attendees…
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How hard work helped this couple stay within budget on their house extension
Emily and partner Jack had ideas for building an extension as soon as they viewed their east London Victorian terrace. In fact, they sketched out some initial ideas on the back of a pub menu straight after they had visited the property. The house needed extensive renovation work, but that didn’t put them off as…
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Solving Construction’s Productivity Puzzle: Quickbase’s New Work Management Platform
Quickbase has launched the Quickbase Work Management Platform for Construction. It connects teams and streamlines projects from pre-construction to close out. The announcement took place at Procore Groundbreak on November 20, 2024. The platform includes pre-built “Pro App” solutions, AI-powered tools for insights and workflow automation, and access to mobile form capabilities for field teams.…
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How to Make LLMs Work in Construction
During the Building 2030 Week, I hosted three panel discussions, one on AI in construction (pictured). Artificial Intelligence was one of the week’s key themes. LLMs are already delivering value at Jatke Much of the communication in construction is verbal or written and unstructured. Therefore, Large Language Models are perfect for analyzing, summarizing, and alerting…
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Construction Collaboration Today: Making File Sharing Work for You
As construction workflows become digitized, efficient file sharing stands out as a crucial success factor for collaboration. How do you succeed with it? A bit of history The question of collaborative construction file management is not new. My first CAD project was in the mid-1980s. File sharing was simple because the design disciplines worked on…
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Gray Work – When Technology Doesn’t Work for You
Eric Olson, CMO at Quickbase, is Aarni Heiskanen’s guest in this episode of the AEC Business podcast discussing “Gray Work.” It is the work done in ad-hoc solutions to make do and get by when your technology doesn’t work for you. It is in systems that aren’t connected, built on the fly, and not conducive…
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The Productivity Paradox: Insights from Quickbase’s 2024 Gray Work Index
The modern workplace is at a critical juncture. The influx of technology tools intended to streamline productivity is paradoxically making work harder and less meaningful. Quickbase’s second annual “Gray Work Index” delves into this phenomenon, providing a rich analysis based on a survey of 1,923 US and UK workers. The findings from this study are…
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The Future of Construction Work with Mark Ehrlich
In this episode of the AEC Business podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Ehrlich, a veteran of the construction industry from the USA and the author of “The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work.” Our conversation delved into the evolving landscape of construction work and the challenges faced by construction…
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Why It’s Essential to Clarify Your Construction Project’s Scope of Work
Scope of work documents may be only a few pages long, but the information it contains is essential to the success of your construction project. Taking the time to clarify this document can save you time and money, and it can also lead to a better end result. What Is a Scope of Work? A…
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Duuers: Better Proposals with Less Work
Small contractors, consultants, and design professionals have a love–hate relationship with responding to RFPs. Duuers, a Finnish startup, wants to turn this struggle into an inspiring experience. “We followed a day in the life of a hand-picked group of entrepreneurs,” says Paula Viinamäki, co-founder of Duuers. “We were flies on the wall, observing how small…