How an 11-phase construction sequence sped up design and regulatory approval.
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Web exclusive: View an AutoCAD Civil slideshow of the 11 construction phases required to replace water mains near a floodwall for the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission.
Building information modeling and horizontal assets.
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Although building information modeling (BIM) is a powerful tool on any project, contractors particularly like the ability to include nonstructural elements and further expand what the model can facilitate.
Imagine how much your operations and maintenance efficiency would improve if you had an owner's manual for each facility.
Frequent battery replacements, missed calls, and garbled messages meant just one thing to Albert Brunson, head of public building equipment maintenance for Cumberland County, N.C.: time to update his mobile communications system.
If clarifying a detail is as easy as reading a note on the construction plan sheet, why do contractors make so many requests for information?
Gathering data with geoprocessing technologies such as global positioning systems, virtual reference stations, geographic information systems (GIS), and CAD is challenging enough. Integrating the vast amount of spatial information derived from two or more of these technologies to make critical...
Geographic information systems evolve with each advance in computer and telecommunications technology.
Most of the backhoe-loader manufacturers have been busy lately improving their new product offerings. We take a closer look at: new M Series 2 backhoe-loaders from Case; Caterpillar's E-Series, a three-machine lineup of backhoes introduced at this year's World of Concrete Show; and Terex's TX970B...
Parcel data, regional and community maps, facility as-builts, building permits, and other collected data are the longstanding capital of public works departments. Systems to manage and better analyze these pieces of information, however, have advanced with technology, and public agencies need to be...
I love my Mac. At least I do when it works. Most people are very loyal to their computers, but I'm on a Mac at work and a PC at home. So really, I can go either way as long as the machine does what I want it to do. But computers often require upgrades. We're about to move into Mac OSX here at the...
