Cover Story:
Model Methods
By Robert J. Hartung, DBIA
Consider the benefit achieved when a specialty contractor, working with a manufacturer, provides design information into the process at the early stages: Fabrication information in the form of shop drawings may begin for the specialty contractor at the design development phase, and the principal designer has enough information to avoid costly conflicts that usually become change orders and claims if found during the construction phase.
Collaboration Technology
By Carl Azar
With continuing innovation in construction technology and design goals such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification, the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) industry is experiencing rapid increases in design complexity. Firms are grappling not only with how to address traditional concerns of raising productivity in the face of this and worker shortages, but also how to collaborate effectively under a proliferation of project delivery methods.
D-B IN 3-D
By Mark P. Shambaugh, P.E., DBIA
Little technology was involved when Teresa Marzetti wanted to start a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, in 1896. The Florence, Italy, immigrant just wanted to serve good food and did.
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