October 2021

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Welcome to Tech Adoption Week 2021

Welcome to the first annual Tech Adoption Week! Over the next few days, we’ll be exploring fresh ways to help you navigate change and ease tech adoption at your organization.

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Tech Adoption Week 2021
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Bluebeam User Group Meetings Go Virtual

  • Technology & Innovation
With COVID-19 halting in-person gatherings and events, Bluebeam’s passionate user community isn’t missing a beat—in fact, it’s taking BUG meetings to a new level entirely
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The Benefits of Meditation in Construction

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
Meditation, particularly “mindfulness,” has become more prevalent in the workplace. Here’s why construction workers should consider the practice—if they haven’t already
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Jobsite Safety During COVID-19: A Moving Target

  • Health, Safety, and Compliance
Many construction sites are adopting augmented schedules and social distancing to protect workers from COVID-19, but the uncertainty surrounding the virus has made standardized safety measures a moving target.
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BUG Buzz: Meetings Go Virtual

  • Technology & Innovation
Bluebeam User Group brought enhanced attendance and engagement across the globe even as meetings shifted to virtual environments in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Working Remote Sessions: Jennifer Timmons

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
Here’s how Davy Architecture’s Jennifer Timmons is staying productive with Bluebeam while working from home full-time amid the COVID-19 pandemic
The Basic Economics of a Construction Project

New to Construction? Welcome to Industry Econ 101

  • Construction & The Economy
Where does an owner get money to build? How do contractors get paid? Here, we answer these basic questions someone new to the industry may have about the economics of a construction project
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Cottee Parker Goes Paperless on Queen’s Wharf

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
The Australian architecture firm transforms its operating structure with Revu to design one of the biggest construction projects on the continent in three decades
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Working Remote Sessions: Gautam Shenoy

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
How are industry professionals adapting to working from home in light of COVID-19? We caught up with Gautam Shenoy to learn more about his experience
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Is It Time for a New Look at Tilt-Up?

  • Technology & Innovation
The method is often maligned for its perceived incompatibility with complex, innovative architecture. Recent projects are challenging that notion
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Which Employment Laws Apply to COVID-19?

  • Health, Safety, and Compliance
The outbreak has put many small construction, design and engineering firms in crisis mode. Keep these employment law implications in mind.
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How to Work From Home With Revu

  • Technology & Innovation
Construction, engineering and architecture professionals can stay on top of their work with these tips
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Helping Women Advance in Tech

  • Technology & Innovation
A panel event at Bluebeam’s HQ aimed to support local women working in the technology sector
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Inside Suffolk’s L.A. “Smart Lab”

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
The contractor has spent the last two years investing in burgeoning technology, headlined by the instillation of seven “Smart Labs”
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Meet the New, Modern Public Library in Austin

  • Building, Design & Architecture
The new library in Austin, Texas, shows how architects and builders are re-thinking the traditional public institution to include aspects of modern life
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A Revu Guide for Civil

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
Bluebeam Revu isn’t just for the vertical built environment. Here are ways civil engineering and project teams can take advantage of the software
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Hilson Moran Moves Tech Adoption Forward

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
An executive with the global environmental engineering and design consultancy talks with Bluebeam about the benefits it has seen from digitization
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How to Build a Bridge Underwater

  • Technology & Innovation
The recently re-built Tappan Zee Bridge in New York demonstrates the process of underwater construction
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Reality Capture: Surveying 2.0

  • Technology & Innovation
Surveying as-built conditions is a big expense. But reality capture technology is both lowering the cost and improving accuracy and efficiency of the process.