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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!

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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…

Each year Liberty Mutual Insurance publishes a report to identify which types of injuries are costing the most in different industries. This is a little different that ranking incidents in terms of number of fatalities or days away from work. What it actually shows is that falls (including falls to lower levels and falls to the same level), overexertion, and struck-by incidents are responsible for 73.8% of all injury costs in the construction industry. Any thoughts?

OSHA began accepting electronic submissions of forms 300, 300A and 301 on January 2, 2025 for records of injuries and illnesses in 2024. Check out the new requirements and learn who is required to record and report in this new course on The Construction Collaborative.

OSHA Recordkeeping and Reporting

I am working on digesting all 13 pages of the newly proposed OSHA heat standard. A few things that jump out at me that I have not heard people discussing (yet) are as follows:

1. This is being issued as a single standard that applies to all industries (General, Construction, Agriculture, Maritime) as opposed to issuing several different industry standards like they did with silica

2. It follows the modern OSHA trend of requiring a written exposure control plan (similar to the newer confined space and silica standards)

3. It (finally) discusses the use of WBGT devices to monitor heat exposure and pegs the levels back to the (very old) NIOSH document that should have been adopted as a standard decades ago (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature)

4. It does not include discussion or suggestions for how multi employer worksites (such as construction projects) should be handled

Check out this article from Robotics and Automation News. Do you think the industry is really here yet? We are definitely at a point where it's feasible, and available, but are we seeing implementation at scale? We definitely have some contractors doing autonomous robotic layout with companies like Dusty Robotics, but to make this really economical, we need mutli-trade layout, which makes sense, but it's far from being the norm. We absolutely have

masonry contractors using machines like the Mule to aid in block placement, but it requires different block that is also packaged a little differently. Remotely controlled demolition robots and even remotely controlled compactors make complete sense as an economical way to get the job done without putting a person in harm's way, but we still tend to default to doing it the way we have always done it. And maybe that's the heart of the issue. Adoption…

Hi, I'm Lee and new to this group. My colleague hosts this great podcast called Construction Trailblazers. Link Here: https://constructiontrailblazers.com/ Please give a like or a comment and let me know if you see this. How active is this community? Who is here? Happy to connect!