The Construction Collaborative Group

As I review notes from the recent Bluebeam Unbound conference and try to decide what to write about first, this article from Architosh seems to have done all the work for me! This is an excellent review and perspective with insights from a presser that I was invited to sit in on that surfaced some great insight into where Bluebeam is heading. The two take aways on which I will be focused for now are it's angle on how to implement AI and the moves it has made into mobile access. 

Its implementation of Anthropics’s Claude AI agent and MCP server technology offers some intriguing possibilities. (from the article below) "Anthropic’s MCP technology enables users to tell an AI agent to do things in the software that are possible for the human user to do, but incredibly time-consuming. Instead of the user manually taking a series of actions in Revu." Of all the current…

As I review notes from the recent Bluebeam Unbound conference and try to decide what to write about first, this article from Architosh seems to have done all the work for me! This is an excellent review and perspective with insights from a presser that I was invited to sit in on that surfaced some great insight into where Bluebeam is heading. The two take aways on which I will be focused for now are it's angle on how to implement AI and the moves it has made into mobile access. 

Its implementation of Anthropics’s Claude AI agent and MCP server technology offers some intriguing possibilities. (from the article below) "Anthropic’s MCP technology enables users to tell an AI agent to do things in the software that are possible for the human user to do, but incredibly time-consuming. Instead of the user manually taking a series of actions in Revu." Of all the current…

I think construction is changing faster than many people acknowledge and inwould like to get some input from the group. What type of project delivery method is used most often in your company? Click on the link below to jump to LinkedIn and take the survey. Yes, I know we can create polls here but I have a good start there and would like to keep the data in one place!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rogersjim_construction-constructionishard-activity-7382813485749022720-r0Zv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAGEtr0BoZXcy18DxgNh1KoiC1Uo3jHbHsI

The collapse of the Surfside Condo building was a tragedy and we are only now seeing some actual answers published about what went wrong. There is a great deal of information to digest in this short article. A slab column connection being the point of failure is not that surprising, but the details make it all the more evident that this should have been able to be seen in a structural investigation that should have occurred as a regular part of building maintenance. Also not surprising is that they cited the addition of heavy landscape planters that added unaccounted for loads to the deck. This can be seen in many older buildings.

The real issue here is how this gets solved and avoided in the future. I have always questioned what happens to a mid or high rise condominium when it gets turned over to the condo owners. There…