Punching Through the Fog

Illustration: Harry Campbell 'Photo/Img credit OVERRIDE

At Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, staff technologists have developed Fieldport, a mobile product to create and process work orders. It is paired with the airport’s geographic information and SAP systems to create work orders in real time, with detailed GIS location information attached.
Photo: Courtesy of Sky Harbor Airport 'Photo/Img credit OVERRIDE

Illustration: Harry Campbell 'Photo/Img credit OVERRIDE

Todd Sutton (left) with colleague and projectcontrols representative Jessie Kassinger evaluate a new iPod screen in hard light. Sutton says a convergence of better hardware, software and cloud services opens up a world of potential for project controls and efficiency gains through field data management.
Photo: Tom Sawyer 'Photo/Img credit OVERRIDE




Image: Courtesy of Zachry Construction Corp.
Punch list drag and drop icons for specific issues by trade. Details in spreadsheet.
Inspectors using Zachry’s 123 Punch List field-data collection system and Bluebeam PDF Revu to collaborate have pallets of issue icons, coded for common notations, by trade, which they can drag and drop onto a PDF of the floor plan in a shared folder. Preferences are set for frequent saving and refreshing over the Internet, so each inspector’s changes show up immediately. A function at the bottom of the screen translates icons into a spreadsheet for creating notifications.
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