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Contractors setup and manage new projects by creating a poster with a project QR code with your company logo and check-in instructions. Employees, subcontractors, vendors and visitors will scan the QR code poster or use a personal QR badge and a tablet when entering or leaving. Daily log and project management updates are automatic.

Safe Site Check In is a web app accessed using any device without downloads or installs for paperless site management. Affordable monthly subscriptions are by jobsite for an unlimited number of users. Free trials and volume discounts available.

Experienced jobsite superintendents, project, safety, personnel and cost managers are hard to find and keep. SSCI’s paperless digital automation saves them hours a day and allows them to be builders, not bureaucrats or paper pushers:
1. Field operations -- Field operations managers all need to know who's on site, why, for what reason, for how long, and approved by whom. SSCI automates field operations data capture, distribution, archival and integration for a savings of at least 2.50USD per jobsite check-in.
2. Daily log creation and archival -- Paper records are terrible for operations and compliance. SSCI eliminates daily log data entry and makes compliance archival and retrieval automatic.
3. Worker onboarding, badging & initial training – The time spent by field managers to onboard workers adds to overhead and distracts from construction. SSCI makes onboarding employees, subcontractors and vendors mostly self-service. 
4. Worker profiles – Jobsite workers can be employees, subcontractors or vendors but field managers rarely know their employers, skills and legal employment status. SSCI makes worker profile data, images and documents available to field managers. 
5. Jobsite security – Security and safety plans require jobsite access controls that prevent unauthorized access. Theft losses are up, untrained workers are a safety risk, and publicly funded projects like schools often require background checks, and more and more states are requiring proof of all workers' legal employment status. SSCI enhances jobsite security control by alerting superintendents of check-in screening failures and/or the arrival of new or unauthorized workers.
6. Remote jobsite monitoring -- Not all jobs are big enough to need full-time onsite superintendents and safety managers, and managers can't be everywhere at once.  And superintendents can’t be onsite everyday anyways. SSCI makes remote & multi-site jobsite management possible by automating so many management tasks and making the data available in real-time with costly travel between sites.
7. Project management – Project management software needs timely jobsite workforce updates to assure schedules are on track. but superintendents are overburdened and dislike data entry tasks.  SSCI makes daily project plan updates mostly automatic and easy for superintendents and field engineers.
8. Subcontractor management – Jobsites are staffed by workers from multiple companies and all such workers need to comply with the project, safety and security plans. SSCI makes onboarding in the field easy and subcontractor compliance verifiable.
9. Safety screening -- Safety plans require training before building begins and frequent reminders as construction proceeds. OSHA expects evidence that training was delivered and safety plans enforced. SSCI makes jobsite safety requirements, reminders, change notices and visitor waivers an automated part of every check in. 
10. Safety training – Safety plans require training in the field and proof it was delivered. SSCI tracks who viewed safety videos and attended field training (aka “tool talks”).
11. Safety alerts – Safety plans require jobsite emergency communications if there’s an incident or accident. SSCI can notify everyone checked-in onsite what they need to do.
12. Safety reference documents – Safety plans require documents at every jobsite describing how to handle or treat hazardous substances. SSCI makes paperless Safety Data Sheets available to everyone on all jobsites.
13. Wage and invoice validation -- Wage and invoice overcharges or false claims can add up if timesheet data cannot be validated and only relies on a superintendent’s memory. Having a second source of data helps with prevailing wage cases too. SSCI makes hourly pay validation possible by providing a comparison to timecard data which is often not entered everyday at the end of the shift. SSCI also captures subcontractor or vendor attendance making t&m invoice processing easier.
14. Safety and incident claims – Safety and risk management plans require workers to notify management immediately after any incident, and management needs good contemporaneous data to defend against claims. SSCI makes both possible by requiring workers to “check-out without incident” and recording all their screening questions and answers.


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tvs design

The Cadalyst piece delves deep into the nuances of conceptual design automation, underscoring how forward-thinking architecture firms like TVS are collaborating with software developers to integrate automation into the conceptual design phase. This integration not only reduces the hours spent on mundane and repetitive tasks, but also empowers designers to channel their energy into more creative “high impact” moments. Adoption of software like Skema presents a win for both firms and clients, allowing for more rapid prototyping of different layouts and configurations, and faster iterations in a project’s early stages.

A standout mention in the article is TVS’s collaboration with Skema, an innovative software developed by Atlanta-based Blue Ocean Sustainability. Skema isn’t just another design tool; it’s transformative. By harnessing data from past projects, Skema offers a dynamic platform to accelerate the conceptual design phase, and is on the cusp of some major updates (we’d share them, but we’re sworn to secrecy!). With industry veteran and Revit pioneer Marty Rozmanith as CTO, Skema is set to redefine how architects and interior designers approach design, doing so in a way that seamlessly integrates into existing workflows. By providing a conceptual design environment coupled with a BIM automation engine, Skema enables the generation of editable BIM data that can be easily used downstream in the design process – in other words, it fits into the way we already work.

Learn more: https://www.tvsdesign.com/tvs-forays-into-design-automation-with-skema/

TVS Forays into Design Automation with Skema

Skema is an AI powered Design Assistant built to elevate the quality and trust in BIM models generated from schematic design workflows—helping teams move from concept to coordinated, engineering-aware BIM designs without the frustrating rework and remodeling.

Skema is designed for architects, engineers and contractors striving to explore constructability as early as possible, particularly in building typologies that benefit from unitized and/or modular design approaches.

Unlike other AI automation solutions, Skema is pre-trained to interpret your firm’s previous design data into unitized design catalogues, so they can be leveraged by our no-code generative design capabilities, without risking your precious intellectual property.

Skema can easily capture and reuse previously proven design elements created and resolved by your people during previous projects enabling you to generate higher-quality BIM deliverables that stakeholders can trust.

Skema focuses on repetitive work in an architectural practice, offering designers easy-to-use tools that run on a web browser. The significant reduction in time Skema achieves in delivering a LOD350 BIM model gives architects a major advantage in driving the shift to modular construction across the industry’s highest growth segments. 

***Data Integrity***
In Skema, the work performed during conceptual and schematic design isn't lost or discarded. Instead, once the process moves into Design Development and Construction Documents, a boost in production is realised with zero data and time lost to the process.  

Our customers are saving weeks and months of rework because of the Skema workflow.  

***BIM Reuse***
There are elements of BIM that lend themselves to AI & automation, specifically the highly repeatable design elements that have been well-defined in past projects. Even the most complex designs have highly repeatable interior elements. 

Modern building methods are forcing architects to provide more and higher levels of design detail earlier in the process. 

The Skema workflow produces high integrity models that owners, builders, and developers can trust. 

Skema

Vizcab has deployed a security and continuous improvement system in partnership with Cogedim:

LCA campaign on more than 12,000 homes and 40,000 m² of offices
A series of regional training sessions to disseminate feedback from the campaign and make it easier to learn how to use the tools
Deployment of a series of Vizcab tools customised for Cogedim:
Vizcab Library integrating Cogedim's library of building systems (macro-components + regional scenarios) developed by its technical department
Vizcab Explo to estimate the carbon performance of a project at an early stage
Vizcab Exam with a personalised alert system in the event of an anomaly in a study at an advanced stage
Vizcab Analytics to visualise and monitor the organisation's carbon trajectory
Inies Explorer for real-time access to industry data to guide large-scale decarbonisation choices
And regular exchanges to share knowledge and ideas.

Cogedim : Ensuring the environmental transition of its organisation

We are the leading 360° Building Carbon Platform, focusing on the embodied carbon impact of materials and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), offering comprehensive solutions from carbon budgeting to regulatory accounting and reporting. Our services benefit the entire construction value chain, with a primary focus on empowering developers to formulate high-ROI carbon-to-cost strategies. Vizcab harnesses an ever-expanding building carbon data lake encompassing 12 million square meters of construction, simplifying data science and machine learning. We prioritize collaboration and cooperation, exemplified by our API strategy connecting the entire construction ecosystem to our cutting-edge technologies.

Vizcab

BIMWERX

We provide a wide range of comprehensive and integrated BIM services to meet our Client’s needs.

BIMWERX currently have 25 projects utilising ReviCheck to improve their services to their clients.

At BIMWERX, are committed to providing clients with the best possible services. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the key to improving the construction industry, and they are constantly looking for new ways to use BIM to deliver better results for clients. One of the ways that have been able to improve our services is by using ReviCheck. ReviCheck is a cloud-based software solution that helps construction teams ensure that they are always working with the latest versions of their drawings. This is essential for avoiding costly mistakes and delays. ReviCheck works by using QR codes to identify each drawing uniquely. 

BIMWERX: How ReviCheck Helps Us Provide Better Services to Our Clients

ReviCheck is a game-changer in construction document management. It seamlessly integrates QR code technology with Autodesk Revit, ensuring all stakeholders access the latest data. The problem of outdated drawings, which plagues construction sites with 25% of drawings being out of date, is solved through real-time document status checks using the ReviCheck mobile app.

ReviCheck Tutorial 02 - Web Portal Settings

ReviCheck Tutorial 03 - Revit Plugin Tutorial

Revit Plug-in that Saves Money - ReviCheck Revit Plug-in Tutorial

ReviCheck

Autodesk Revit is a building information modeling (BIM) software used by architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, NEP engineers, designers, and contractors. 

Revit

he Precinct Development application by Archithera's Bayo Windapo. His app allows you to shape precincts seamlessly, starting with the surface parking layer and the capability to define regions or structures and landscaping. This is followed by a comprehensive suite of input options offering extensive control over parameters for parking allocations, circulation pathways, building zones, and green spaces.

Archithera - Precinct Development App

VIKTOR.AI: Automate Engineering Workflows with Custom Web Apps
VIKTOR.AI is a low-code platform designed to help engineers streamline their workflows by creating, integrating, and sharing powerful web applications using Python. By automating repetitive tasks and improving collaboration, VIKTOR enables teams to focus on solving complex engineering challenges while increasing efficiency and accuracy.

Key Features
- App Creation: Convert Python scripts, Excel files, Grasshopper models, and Dynamo scripts into fully interactive web applications with intuitive user interfaces. This enables engineers to centralize their tools, enhance usability, and make domain-specific knowledge accessible to a broader team.

- Software Integration: Seamlessly connect with industry-standard software such as CAD, simulation tools, and data analysis platforms. This eliminates manual data transfers, reduces human error, and optimizes engineering workflows.

- App Distribution: Deploy applications securely within an enterprise cloud environment, ensuring easy access across teams while maintaining centralized control over updates and permissions.

- Collaboration: Store and manage project data efficiently with built-in version control. This ensures that team members can track changes, manage documentation, and minimize miscommunication.

- Security & Compliance: Enterprise-grade security features, including single sign-on (SSO), user access management, and regional hosting options, provide organizations with the control they need to protect sensitive data.

Development Tools
Command-Line Interface (CLI): Streamline app development, install dependencies, and run tests across Windows and Linux environments.
API & SDK: Automate workflows, extract data, and integrate custom applications using the REST API and SDK, allowing engineers to tailor solutions to their specific needs.
Community & Support
VIKTOR offers comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and an active developer community to support users in building and scaling their automation solutions. With dedicated technical support, teams can ensure a smooth development experience and maximize their productivity.

By automating the tedious, VIKTOR empowers engineers to focus on innovation, creativity, and solving real engineering challenges.

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J.P. van Eesteren is a constructor of mostly large buildings. In their words ‘the construction sector is at a watershed moment in its history’. Their vision is their way to prepare for what the future brings: Making buildings smarter. To facilitate reaching this goal, they developed a Cloud-based parametric design application that can be used to generate the optimal design for residential towers at the push of a button.

Parametric design tool generates the optimal residential tower

The VINCI Construction development team Synaps'Up specialises in building tools that make the work of their engineering teams easier and more efficient. In search of a new deployment solution, they stumbled upon VIKTOR. Now, they are using the VIKTOR platform to automate the calculation of over 200 crane foundation designs every year. Alexandre Cousin, Head of Generative Design at VINCI Construction in France: “Our goal is to calculate crane foundation designs in 15 minutes, whereas this would normally take anywhere from 3 up to 5 days.”

How VINCI automates their crane foundation designs. 

Arcadis

Global design, engineering, and management consulting firm Arcadis is increasingly transitioning into a more digital company, adopting and developing all kinds of new technologies to optimize its engineering processes. For example, in the field of structural engineering where many still experience a significant lack of suitable tools for automation. As a solution, engineers at Arcadis started to develop their own tools to increase productivity and sustainability and save resources, such as the Building Structural Design tool on the VIKTOR platform.

How Arcadis develops next gen structural engineering tools with VIKTOR

Digital initiatives such as cloud-based Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence are vital to improving internal engineering processes in the international Engineering and Construction firm McDermott. According to Mina Ya-alimadad, AI Projects Manager & Academia Partnership Lead at McDermott, the vision of the AI team at McDermott is to develop AI-based products to automate repetitive engineering tasks. In order to host their in-house applications they started using VIKTOR at the end of last year, including a web app referred to as ReCo tool that uses image recognition to identify mistakes in Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs).

McDermott leverages AI to save valuable engineering hours with user-friendly VIKTOR apps

This client came to us looking for a multifunctional space where they could entertain and host family. Our 350-square-foot Mighty Studio checked every box. Plus, the floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding glass doors would mean that they could take full advantage of the California sunshine.

Mighty Buildings is committed to environmentally-friendly design. Our units are sustainable and energy efficient. This client also opted for the solar panel upgrade, which means that they can reduce their carbon footprint even further.

Read more: https://mightybuildings.com/projects/studio-livermore

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Parametric design tool generates the optimal residential tower

How VINCI automates their crane foundation designs.

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