Tech Brief

The Associated General Contractors of America

April 2013

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ConsensusDocs Celebrates First Anniversary of the Technology Transforming Contractual Negotiations in the Construction Industry

There is a better way to build and ConsensusDocs is transforming contractual negotiations in the design and construction industry with its open and collaborative technology platform. Technology has long been harnessed to improve safety, efficiency and quality in construction – now ConsensusDocs users can take advantage of technology to simplify project cooperation for improved and expedited contract negotiations that will speed the time to construction and fairly allocate risk, while reducing costly contingencies and adversarial negotiations.

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Save the Date for the 2013 AGC IT Forum Conference in Chicago

*****NEW DATE***** Please join us in Chicago on August 14 and 15, 2013 for the 5th annual AGC IT Forum Conference where great peer-to-peer collaboration and networking are central! This year our theme is Strong IT Knowledge Driving Excellent Business Decisions.

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Join the Interoperability Conversation

AGC recently took another significant step forward toward the development of interoperability for the construction industry. The association engaged Burger Consulting Group to work with contractors and construction software vendors to accomplish easy data exchange and integrated systems using agcXML schema. Take part in this exciting leading-edge initiative by searching for the "agcXML in construction" group on LinkedIn and request to join.

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TECH TIPS

Mobile eCMS Available on the App Store

Computer Guidance Corporation, the leading developer of financial and project management software solutions for architecture, engineering and construction companies, recently announced that its Mobile eCMS application suite has been made available through the App Store for iPad® devices.

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FROM THE IT FORUM

Email Archiving

Q. What is everyone using for email archiving? We have used GFI MailArchiver for the longest time and are looking into other software/devices. We are running Exchange 2010 and our current stores are at 900 gb. Do you have a large store? Also, how many mailbox servers do you have?

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Tool and Equipment Management/Tracking

Q. Are any of your organizations using good technology with RFID capabilities to manage their tool and equipment inventory? I’m helping our equipment yard manager research some solutions and thought I’d start here for feedback. Toolwatch and Toolhound are a couple I have heard of but know nothing about.