Visual Building - Editing roof wood construction

This tutorial video demonstrates how in Visual Building you can examine and edit the wood construction components within the roof.

This video is applicable to: Visual Building Lite, Visual Building Basic, Visual Building Professional, Visual Building Premium and Visual Building Solar Designer.

Visual Building is a building / house design software application, that will enable you to design your own home producing quality floorplans and 3D Visualisations.

Visual Building is a building / house design software application, that will enable you to design your own home producune qualty floorplans and 3D Visualisations.

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Published By

Arka Roy

www.quantity-takeoff.com

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World's Longest Sea Bridge Construction

An engineering marvel the Jiaozhou bay bridge has finally opened up after four years of construction. The 26.3 miles long bridge links the port city of Qingdao to the island of Huangdao.

The road bridge, which is 110ft wide and is the longest of its kind, cost nearly £1billion to build.

A bridge over misty waters: The immense £1billion structure which is supported by more than 5,000 pillars stretches for 24 miles along China's eastern port city of Qingdao to the offshore island Huangdao.

It took four years to build the bridge, which is supported by more than 5,000 pillars across the bay, and it is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder - the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

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Published By

Arka Roy

www.quantity-takeoff.com

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Cost Estimate Spreadsheet - Extension/Renovation

Brief tutorial on how to use the Cost Estimate Spreadsheet for Extensions and Renovations - use it only for Ballpark Budget estimates for initial feasibility.

The form allows a contractor to come up with a total estimate after breaking down the costs of materials, equipment, employee cost and more. You are able to customize the form to fit your business by using Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word also allows you to edit your form and even add your company logo to it if you wish.

 

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Published By
Arka Roy
www.quantity-takeoff.com
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Estimating with Excel for the Small Contractor

In the video I will teach you how to use Excel to build a worksheet for estimating projects for the small contractor. The end result is a very basic, but usable estimating template. I hope to make additional videos to expand on this template and build a complete system of estimating, proposals letters, tracking your hours and materials and invoicing the job. All your information about the job is in one worksheet. I am not selling a product and I am a contractor just like you. I just wanted to teach other contractors how to use Excel in estimating. If I get some interest in the video then I will continue to make more of them. If no one is interested then I'll just stop at one video.

  

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Published By
Arka Roy
www.quantity-takeoff.com
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Trimble accubid enterprise estimating

The recipient of the 2013 Constructech Top 50 Products Award, Trimble® Accubid Enterprise is a server-based, spec-driven estimating platform designated for electrical, industrial mechanical, and ITS contractors. As a multi-user platform, employ the strength of the prosperous assembly and material databases useful for minimizing overabundance as well as inaccuracies for quick and authentic estimates. This leads to more precise and complete bids.

Trimble® Accubid Enterprise applies rational business regulations to imitate and optimize the project lifecycle from bid to completion. The software will facilitate the process to develop bids containing specifications, assemblies and item libraries. The users can also be benefited with the instinctive and customizable takeoff pad. After completion, the project managers will be able to apply bid data to enumerate changes applying the same method.

  

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Published by 
Arka Roy
www.quantity-takeoff.com
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Construction with Quadrotor Teams

Teams of quadrotors autonomously build tower-like cubic structures from modular parts. Work done by Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay Kumar at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

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Published By
Arka Roy
www.washington.quantity-takeoff.com
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iPhone and iPad Applications Best Suited for Construction Professionals

With the changing trends in construction industry, use of IPhone applications is gaining pace with due course of time. Various IPhone applications are available that with innovative solutions for all related professionals.

Apple's IPhone is leading in introducing applications and solutions for mobile phones, yet there are other smart phones like Android and Blackberry that are also getting construction apps in their systems. Mentioned below is a list of some of the popular IPhone/IPod and IPad apps that are highly recommended for quick access:

SmartBidNet: SmartBidNet consists of bid management systems that allow creating as well as tracking bid process with subcontractors and companies. In a most secure and reliable way, this application provides you with accessible information to make bid projects easier and timely.

GoBIM: With GOBIM application you can navigate 3D BIM models and their associated data easily as BIM applications are widely used in the construction industry today. The size of the model handled by GoBIM depends on three factors- number of parameters, number of triangles and number of materials.

FingerCAD: FingerCAD is a CAD application for technical drawing with fingers assisted by computer. Through this application, the final design is saved and can be sent via e-mail or printed.

Architect’s Formulator: Architect’s Formulator includes over 200 formulas to help you on electrical, carpentry and plumbing calculations. Besides, this application includes concrete and excavation formulas that help in estimating the concrete and bricks required. It also contains formulas for steel design, swimming pool and parking area designs.

Carpenter's Helper: Carpenter’s Helper aids in the calculation of roof pitch, stair lengths, rafter lengths, etc. The application has a graphical interface that calculates roof, stair and floor projects.

Builders Helper App: This IPhone application calculates several constructions projects like rafters, columns, stairs, roof, drywall, concrete, painting, decking, flooring and various others.

Fast Concrete Pad Calculator: Fast Concrete Pad Calculator calculates the required quantity of concrete and rebar for the next project. It also calculates the cost of waste materials, concrete and rebar.

Drywall Calculator: Drywall Calculator calculates how many drywall sheets will be required to finish the input area properly.

Roofing Calculator: Once the area to be worked upon is decided, Roofing Calculator calculates the number of roofing shingles, number of bundles and number of squares for a given job. Cost per bundle and a waste overage percentage can also be incorporated in the calculation.

Procore: Procore application helps in creating and managing access contact data, punch list items, share and store project photos, log time card entries, etc. Apart from this, construction schedules, submittals, RFI's, change orders and various other processes can also be managed.

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Published by Tuhin Maity
CAD Drafter & Designer
www.quantity-takeoff.com
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An exclusive e-books on cost data titles by RSMeans

RSMeans, a wing of Reed Construction Data and North American based key supplier of construction cost information, has just introduced the availability of  the new digital e-books. These books are added to the huge lists of cost data titles. 

The various estimating professionals will now be able to access the most authentic information from several gadgets in the office or on the job site. 

RSMeans provides an entire library range containing cost data titles which will be very useful for construction professionals for making cost estimates for various types of projects like commercial new construction, facilities maintenance and repair, renovation as well as sustainable construction. The cost data titles include an unlimited range of materials, equipment and labor costs to provide most updated regional construction costs Informations  for owners, developers, architects, engineers and contractors.

Presently RSMeans is giving a 25% discount on all cost data eBook titles all through July 2013. To avail this opportunity the construction professional should apply the promo code epdf-2013. 

For getting more updates, go through http://rsmeans.directfrompublisher.com.

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Published by Rajib Dey
Content Writer

www.quantity-takeoff.com (A well know overseas company for construction estimating)

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