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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The Construction Open Software Alliance (COSA) is collaborating on the promotion of standards data exchange within the construction industry. COSA supports the agcXML initiative and will submit schemas that it develops for review and ratification by AGC. In addition it will provide a platform among its members for testing and promoting the use of agcXML schemas in real-life production environments.
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To take part in the exciting, leading-edge interoperability conversation, search for the "agcXML in construction" group on LinkedIn and request to join.
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Building green begins with the commitment to do just that—from design to plan to build. Before electronic plans, subcontractors had little choice but to sift through mountains of project drawings to find something applicable and interesting to them. Construction automation changed the game in the 1990s and again in the mid-2000s.
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The brand new Enterprise Fleet Management Mobile App, a customized mobile phone application for Android and iPhone users, is now available free of charge to all Enterprise Fleet Management customers. Its touch-screen features are designed to add convenience and efficiencies for any business with a fleet of vehicles.
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Q. We are about to begin a project where the owner, architect, engineer and other project stakeholders are located in various parts of the country, and the owner would like us (the CM) to set up and manage the electronic submittal processing and document storage system for the project, rather than the architect.

Can anyone recommend a high-quality submittal processing and document storage software product, preferably cloud-based, or possibly locally hosted?
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