TechBrief

At AGC's 97th Annual Convention in March, the AGC IT Steering Committee will hold three presentations on the following topics: 1) 3D Printing in the Construction Industry, 2) Update on UAVs (Drones) and Best Practices to Know, and 3) Use Cases for BIM and Safety on Project Sites. Be sure to catch these exciting and informative sessions!

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Flying cars may not be the norm these days, as predicted in "Back to the Future II," when Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled 30 years into the future and landed on Oct. 21, 2015, but there are many technological inventions in play now than there were in 1985.

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Seeking an extremely secure electronic plan room that could function without Internet connectivity, Balfour Beatty Construction turned to Egnyte while reconstructing and updating more than 2 million square feet in the terminals at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

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Starting in the very near future, Chrome's getting Brotli, a new page compression algorithm that decreases load times. Brotli, which was revealed in September as a replacement for Chrome's outgoing Zopfli algorithm, uses a more efficient data format to improve the compression of scripts by up to 26 percent.

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Have an older generation iPhone? The new iOS 9.2.1 update can potentially make your experience easier, according to a new series of YouTube videos featuring side-by-side comparisons with devices running iOS 8.4.1. Although installing 9.2.1 still causes an iPhone 4S or 5 to boot slower, once in action the software can load apps as fast or faster than 8.4.1 in many circumstances, according to iAppleBytes.

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The Construction Open Standards Alliance (COSA) is a community of construction industry professionals who support open integration standards in construction software. Join the effort today.

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VDC for Design Phase Management & Preconstruction
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 to Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Orlando, Florida

The use of virtual design and construction (VDC) techniques is becoming more widespread in just about every global economy. Governments, such as in the United Kingdom, are even setting targets for required VDC/BIM within the next few years. We would like to explore how the utilization of VDC techniques in the design and planning phase are ultimately impacting our project outcomes.

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Mark your calendars for the 2016 AGC IT Forum Conference, scheduled for Aug 4-5, 2016, in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The IT Forum Steering Committee is currently in the planning phase and working hard to produce another stellar event. Visit http://meetings.agc.org/itforum/ to stay abreast of plans as they develop.

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