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Cloud Computing

The air is so filled with clouds these days--cloud computing, cloud services, public clouds, private clouds, internal clouds, managed clouds, fake clouds, hybrid clouds--you would think a storm is brewing. This webinar featuring construction industry experts on the subject will help you find your way through the fog.

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Engineering-News Record Presents a Complimentary Webcast: Top 400 Contractors

The Top 400 Contractors list, published annually in May, ranks the 400 largest general contractors, both publicly and privately held, based on construction contracting-specific revenue. Paul Bonington, publisher of Engineering News-Record, will moderate a panel of executives from the largest general contracting firms as they discuss the results of the 2011 Top 400 survey and where they see opportunities for future business. During the webcast ENR’s senior editor and survey manager, Gary Tulacz, will unveil the results of this year’s ENR Top 400 Contractor survey and discuss the list.

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Architectural Record & Engineering News-Record Presents: BIM for Small & Medium-Size Firms

The benefits of a BIM-enabled office are obvious for large architecture firms working on mega projects. But does investing in BIM software make sense for smaller firms with less complex projects? This webinar will explore that question with three architects from firms with fewer than 20 employees and a consultant that helps design professionals implement BIM technology. Topics to be covered include: cost/benefit analysis; the pros & cons of using BIM on small commercial buildings and single-family homes; the importance of establishing office modeling standards; and training.

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Digital Signatures: Designing new levels of efficiency and collaboration

Available: November 3, 2011, 2:00 - 3:00PM ET

AEC firms face increasingly fierce competition over projects as clients are demanding better, faster, and cheaper results. Digital signature technology gives firms the speed, control and competitive advantage to win much needed projects, and deliver on time and on budget.

Digital signatures replace slow and expensive paper-based approval processes with fast, efficient, and fully-electronic ones. Furthermore, digital signatures allow each engineer's contribution to be uniquely attributable and sealed from changes, thereby binding the liability to its source. This enhances internal and external collaboration among geographically dispersed engineers who can securely and compliantly sign, seal, and route drawings and other documents in minutes, rather than days. The result is enhanced quality through collaboration, faster project turnaround times, and significant savings from eliminated printing, mailing, and archiving costs.

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Top 400 Contractors

Available on Demand

A panel of executives from the largest general contracting firms will discuss the results of the 2011 Top 400 survey. During the webcast ENR's senior editor and survey manager will unveil the results of this year's ENR Top 400 Contractor survey and discuss the list.

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How McCarthy Continues to Sustain Growth in a Competitive Landscape Utilizing Oracle Primavera

May 12, 2011
11:00AM PT / 2:00PM ET

The need for robust scheduling and resource planning is crucial in an industry with tight margins and tighter deadlines. In this webcast, you will hear the story of how one company made the transition from disparate systems to world-class scheduling through investment in process, investment in tools and investment in the people.

At any given time, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. (McCarthy) will have hundreds of construction projects in process; each project consisting of a few thousand schedule activities up to projects with over 100,000 schedule activities. In 2008, the company realized that getting enterprise views of schedule activities and labor resources across the enterprise was not possible using the system the firm had used for over ten years. Following a thorough review, McCarthy went live with Oracle's Primavera P6 platform in 2009. Moving to a central database allowed users to have greater visibility of project dates and resources. The web-based system further allowed real-time updates of task completion by employees working on the project, as opposed to waiting for a scheduling department to update and maintain. The result was a 500% increase in number of people with access to schedule and resource plans, providing a true and complete picture of resource activity nationwide and ultimately greater control of schedules.

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Beyond ERP: How Project Based Solutions Provide Improved Benefits to the Integrated Project Lifecycle

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Project centric organizations have struggled for more than a decade to reap the kind of benefits the manufacturing industry has experienced with integrated ERP systems. The primary obstacle has been that traditional ERP systems were developed to support short, repetitive production cycles tied to a master schedule, whereas project centric companies generally have custom, Build-to-Spec projects. While ERP systems could support many of the corporate functions of a project centric organization, these companies were often forced to develop in-house applications, or modify their ERP solution in order to support their more complex business processes. Enter the Project Based Solution, which combines the integrated enterprise benefits of ERP, but are designed specifically to support the complex business processes associated with engineering, construction, EPCI contracting, fabrication, engineer-to-order, equipment installation and other more project centric organizations.

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ISO 15926 in Action: CH2M HILL's use of Bentley's OpenPlant tools

Available on Demand

Hear how the ISO 15926 schema and the new OpenPlant tools are allowing CH2M HILL to easily exchange information on large and small projects and deliver better projects for their customers. The presentation will include catalog and spec management, exchanging PID and piping information and other downstream information exchanges. This eSeminar will also enable those who attend to ask questions directly to Rob Brawn, Director of Automation Systems Integration and Karen Osier, CAD Manager as they share what ISO 15926 means for their customers and their experience using the new OpenPlant Modeler application.

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BIM and Automated Machine Guidance for Faster and More Accurate Project Delivery

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In this webcast you'll hear about two industry developments-global positioning system (GPS) machine control and building information modeling (BIM). While designing in 3D is becoming more prevalent as important part of the BIM process, 2D plan sets are still the most common way that contractors receive plan documents. Join us and learn how common heavy construction workflow problems are addressed with Autodesk heavy construction solutions - allowing engineers, contractors, and surveyors to automate much of the construction process, dramatically improve productivity, accuracy, and complete heavy highway and site construction projects faster and more profitably.

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