While cloud computing and the abundant project data it provides have transformed everything from construction management to conceptual design, preconstruction estimating remains stubbornly unchanged
Ground Penetrating Radar Systems recently released a mobile app for SiteMap, its cloud platform that can bring GIS and BIM project data together in one workflow.
Originally known as Bid2Win when it was founded in the 1990s, B2W has grown from an estimation and field tracking tool to a cloud platform for heavy civil contractors that includes equipment maintenance and management, scheduling and electronic forms to its list of tools.
Dublin Airport is pursuing a $1.8-billion capital investment program digitally, with more than 140 projects being delivered using the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform.
If contractors knew the best way to capture site data for each kind of job, whether it was using laser scans, drones or their own smartphones, it would certainly solve some problems up front.
Autodesk is working on an AEC-focused cloud collaboration platform, and says it will continue to push the industry to change its workflows and processes to be more data-centric and less process-centric.