Today we released a number (9 in fact!) of new tips & tricks videos for a variety of applications including Trimble RealWorks and the all-new Trimble ProjectSight. To check out these new videos, along with the rest of our tips and tricks library, head over to our dedicated Tips channel on YouTube by clicking below.
It’s amazing how just increasing the last digit of the calendar by one integer can lead to so many changes each year. And while BuildingPoint can’t do much to help with goals to visit the gym more often, or eat more vegetables, we more than happy to help with your construction technology initiatives as the new year kicks off. In 2017, BuildingPoint is excited to continue pushing the envelope when it comes the construction process, and the improvement of specific areas by applying technology that is straight-forward and easy-to-use. In addition to many of the services and solutions you’re already familiar with, the New Year is a great time to take a look at several cutting edge technologies that are already changing the construction project for the better.
Understanding the crew resources on a project is becoming more important as efficiency and planning continues to become a more prevalent concern. More than just site access control, Trimble CrewSight offers a comprehensive solution for contractors and owners looking to accurately and reliably manage and report on job site personnel. This detailed data can be used to better identify resource discrepancies, and also greatly aid in scheduling and even location-based estimating for future projects.
Drawing sets, change management, and project-wide visibility are a key to a well thought out and implemented document management process. With the all-new Trimble ProjectSight, contractors finally have a document management tool that is simple and easy to use, while also offering the powerful markup and visualization tools that bring the entire value of the project’s drawings and models to the users that need the information everyday. And as a next-generation project management solution, ProjectSight is easy to get up and running, you can even get started with a free trial today!
A tape measure, digital camera, and field book remain the industry’s most popular method of capturing existing conditions on a current or future project. For companies that are looking to improve their as-builting process, Spatial Scanning Services is a uniquely powerful option in the contractor and designer’s toolkit. With Spatial Scanning Services, you can have exact representations of your project whether in model, plan, or point cloud form, in days rather than weeks or months.
As your local construction technology partner, BuildingPoint is committed to helping you succeed in 2017. To learn more about any of these technologies, or to simply discuss your company’s New Year’s resolutions, contact your BuildingPoint team member today, or simply give us a call at (813)280-0655.
If there’s one consistent thread within the AEC industry over the past 10 years, it’s the incredible value and visibility that BIM affords throughout the entire project lifecycle. And to be sure, a completely coordinated and federated model allows all stakeholders to leverage and realize a tremendous advantage throughout the entire construction process. But what happens if you don’t have a fully constructible model? Is there any value to utilizing high precision construction layout tools, such as robotic total stations? In this episode, the Foundations team sits down with Alex Reitsema of BuildingPoint West. Spending his entire career within the construction layout space, Alex discusses some unique capabilities and deliverables that can be realized, even without a fully coordinated VDC model.
When it comes to understanding your space, either before, during, or after construction, BuildingPoint Spatial Scanning Services provides a perfect snapshot of your project. By completely documenting through point clouds, imagery, and 2D drawings or 3D models, a Spatial Scanning devlierable is the perfect tool for understanding and describing your space. One of the most comprehensive and cost-effective scenarios for this type of documentation is within the scope of as-builts for renovations. With this workflow, contractors and designers can easily achieve a number of benefits when compared to traditional as-built documentation, while also increasing the collaboration and visibility on the project, even before production begins. When considering options and alternatives for your next renovation as-built, BuildingPoint Spatial Scanning Services provides the following benefits, and gives you a significantly more complete understanding of your space.
A Complete Holistic Snapshot
Point cloud data? Check. 360 panoramic images? Check. Floorplans and 3D models? Check and check. Spatial Scanning offers the complete view of your renovation project, perfectly documenting the existing conditions that are present in your scope. Highly precise 3D point clouds form the backbone of what is a powerful and insightful site-wide capture of your space as it sits today. This is the perfect foundation for beginning your construction process.
Quick, Actionable Data Acquisiton & Turnaround
Generally speaking, the higher the resolution and detail of the as-built, the slower the acquisition and turnaround time. With Spatial Scanning, data acquisition and detail is largely irrelevant, as least as it pertains to the on-site capture and point cloud delivery schedule. In most cases, point clouds are captured in a single day in all but the largest of projects, and point clouds are ready for consumption one day later. This streamlined turnaround gets the data in your hands, where it belongs, so you can begin making more informed and accurate decisions.
Keep Stakeholders On The Same Page
Project collaboration and visibility is a huge buzzword in the AEC industry today. With technology changing the way that stakeholders collaborate, having a single unified as-built dataset can greatly reduce the headaches and frustration that is associated with remote, web-based team correspondence. As a unified source of as-built data, your team now has the ability to trust a single authoritave dataset that represents the actual conditions on site.
Easy Visibility Into Progression
And speaking of actual conditions… One of the added benefits of having an extremely efficient data acquisition process is being able to replicate and meaure progress throughout the project schedule. As your project progresses, or as conditions change, Spatial Scanning can be used to re-examine and/or document changes to your project, providing further visibility to remote teams and stakeholders.
Spatial Scanning represents a truly powerful tool that can be used throughout the design and construction process. This turnkey, yet customizable deliverable provides a true advantage to design and construction teams looking to elevate their visibility, documentation, and efficiency on renovation projects of all sizes and scopes. To learn more, contact your local BuildingPoint representative today, or head over to our Spatial Scanning web page by clicking here.
Laser scanning offers some fantastic deliverables, allowing contractors and designers to measure, evaluate, analyze, and document their existing conditions with a resolution and fidelity that is simply unmatched using more traditional methods. But one of the greatest benefits of laser scanning is the ability to analyze and review the data set long after capture, often looking at elements and scope that was never intended when the data was captured. In this episode, the Foundations team discusses this powerful ability to scan now, and analyze later.
Just a reminder that this unique and insightful discussion is happening tomorrow, December 14th, beginning at 2pm EST. To learn more, or to register for this free webinar, simply click here.
Document management and collaboration between the office and field can be a challenge, if not the biggest challenge contractors face in the construction process. With Trimble’s revolutionary ProjectSight, stake holders can tear down and eliminate the data silos that can rob productivity, visibility, and efficiency from your project efforts. Trimble ProjectSight can easily scale from the smallest to largest of projects, with a custom-tailored and intuitive interface that works exactly the way you would expect it to. And getting started with this powerful application couldn’t be easier, or cheaper.
In fact, you can easily get started today, with a no-cost evaluation. This evaluation unlocks all of the power and capabilities of ProjectSight, with no time limits, and three full users/collaborators. With this capability, you can easily put ProjectSight to the test on your next project. To get started with a free evaluation, here’s all you have to do, in three easy steps.
Cloud-based file sharing has made life immensely easier of construction stakeholders. File sharing platforms have grown exponentially within the industry marketspace, and for good reason. With easy mobile access, and visibility for any number of users, file sharing has changed the way construction projects share files.
But all of this power and capability does not come without risks to consider and trade-offs to evaluate. Register today for the ENR Webinar “Getting Rogue File Sharing Under Control”. In this webinar, an expert panel will discuss many of these challenges and opportunities, as it relates to file sharing, as well as how you can select the file sharing platform that best fits your project and your processes. To learn more, check out the ENR overview here.
Project closeout is a topic that can strike fear in even the most season construction and project managers. Project closeout is one of those tasks that can require inordinate amounts of time and resources to complete and deliver. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this episode, Foundations is joined by BuildingPoint Florida’s Dan Bentil. With more than two decades of construction management experience, Dan discusses both the all-too-common scenarios surrounding tough and protracted project closeouts as well as the more preferable streamlined closeouts that fit within the schedule and budget.
Over the past month, one of the most common questions we receive regarding our Spatial Scanning Services is around the idea of “What exactly is a spatial model?” And that’s a perfectly valid question. Let’s jump into what exactly a spatial model is, and how it can help you on your project.
At a high level, a spatial model is a generic spatial representation of your existing space or project. As humans, we live and experience life in a 3D space, though historically, we’ve built structures based on 2D plans. And while this is certainly a solid workflow, 3D perspectives can give us a truly powerful viewpoint with which to understand a space or structure. And that’s precisely what a spatial model provides, is a 3D perspective, that is tied to the actual conditions on-site.
As a component of Spatial Scanning Services, BuildingPoint is able to provide a spatial model that reflects the actual space of the area that has been scanned. This lightweight model is accurate in dimension, volume, and area, and provide a truly unique starting point to understand your existing conditions. The spatial model provided by BuildingPoint also conforms to typical conventions and best practices with respect to families and components making it easy to “Level Up” this spatial model to include or encapsulate systems or detail assemblies as the contractor or designer sees fit.
Being a low-detail representation, the spatial model is perfectly suited to be consumed on a wide variety of platforms including laptops, desktops, cell phones, and tablets. IFC-compliant exports can easily take spatial models to the field for collaboration and RFI applications, regardless of whether 3D coordination models are being used for production roles. This creates a powerful middle ground between the 2D plans still widely used on construction projects and 3D models used in pre-construction and/or cost planning functions. Some examples and views of spatial models can be viewed by clicking here.
Taken together, the spatial model is a fantastic, lightweight, easily understood tool within the contractor or designers toolbox that can greatly simply and/or enhance the collaborative elements of a project. To learn more about both low and high-detail modeling services, click here to download our modeling white paper.
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