Problem: Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an excellent way to store and reference capital project information, but its use is currently limited to the desktop computers of architects, engineers, owners, and project managers. Work is being done in the field every day that management would like to see in the BIM model, but the pen and paper process of collecting it in the field and updating it in the BIM model is too cumbersome and time consuming.

Solution: "Our software is already proven to reduce a construction project's time and cost. Adding Autodesk's BIM information into LATISTA and enabling project teams and owners to view LATISTA information in Navisworks only compounds the return on investment for our customers."
- Chris Ramsey, LATISTA Executive Vice President

LATISTA Field integrates Autodesk® Navisworks BIM models and their associated information in the office and on the jobsite. The combined solution allows construction project stakeholders to better track production, materials, and quality and to view progress in the BIM model during the construction process. This solution applies the principles of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in the field, improving the process and tying stakeholders together collaboratively.

For this webinar, LATISTA automation experts will show:

• BIM-linked information can facilitate collaboration and communication between project stakeholders
• Portable, field-ready tablet PCs can access BIM, deficiency lists, materials, and more from the jobsite
• Other innovations like RFID and barcode scanning improve BIM-users' efficiency even further

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Short on time? View this highlights recording of LATISTA customers

If you need a quick overview of what our customers are doing with LATISTA Field, this is a recording of project managers talking about their experiences of using LATISTA Field, in the field.

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Automate Field Quality Management for Heavy and Complex Projects

Oil and gas, energy, military facilities, and infrastructure construction are complex and require technology tools capable of handling complex quality plans, inspections management, and tracking and reporting requirements.

Using mobile tablet PCs, LATISTA has been proven to cut 33% off inpsection times, reduce errors and omissions, and help meet rigorous documentation requirements for owners such as the US Army Corps of Engineers and Eli Lilly & Co.

LATISTA Field improves communications and collaboration both within the project team and to other parties like owners and subcontractors. Improved collaboration reduces communication errors, improving quality and enabling projects to finish on time.

Utilizing mobile tablet PCs in the field and a web-based collaboation environment, LATISTA provides customers with the following:

• Inspections: Set up your workflows and requirements inside LATISTA automation software by system and discipline LATISTA makes quality inspections faster, easier, and more consistant than ever before.
• Instantly synchronize field data on a central database server
• Reporting: Eliminate the hours consolidating the data and creating reports needed to track quality requirements and report the results of inspections.
• Performance Measurement Tools: Track performance of your teams and subcontractors. Sort and report by discipline, attribute, system, and more.
• Inter-departmental Communication: Seamlessly hand off information with other departments tying startup, construction, turnover, commissioning and operations together into one system.
• Collaboration: Work with third parties including owners, subcontractors, engineers and architects over an easy to use web-based environment.

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A 30-Minute Overview of LATISTA's "Visual Punch List" and Subcontractor Management Features

Problem: Project managers, superintendents, and other field personnel spend too much time coding in the field, retyping inspection results in the office, and creating reports. This creates tight time schedules that hinder inspection accuracy, and deficiencies go unidentified and uncorrected. Worse, subcontractors often receive incomplete descriptions of issues, resulting in communications gaps and errors.

Solution: "We can go into the field, put everything into LATISTA, and when we're done, we can get reports within 20 minutes. It's a lot quciker than the pen and paper methods we were using." - Brasfield & Gorrie Project Manager Andrew Bailey

LATISTA's unique "Visual Punchlist" system allows field personnel to:

• Combine electronic drawings iwth standardized, one-click deficiency creation
• Instantly synchronize field data on a central database server
• Automatically generate comprehensive reports with marked-up plans and photos
• Notify managers and responsible subcontractors via email
• Collaborate through an easy-to-use web-portal
• Utilize construction-ready mobile tablet PC offline in the field

Steve Gilbert, IT Operations Manager from Brasfield & Gorrie, joins us to explain how the LATISTA Visual Punchlist process has saved projects time and money.

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An In-Depth Look at LATISTA's Quality and Production Tracking Features

We would like to share with you the relevant experience of one of our customers and the results they have achieved with our total quality management mobile and web solution. In the following example, you will learn how Clark Construction implemented LATISTA on the Navy's Pacific Beacon housing project to finish weeks ahead of schedule with zero deficiencies or punch-list items, saving Clark and the Navy millions.

Scott Widmann, Project Engineer, Clark Construction, will be joining us for a webinar for industry executives scheduled for Thursday, February 19 at 3 p.m. ET. Scott will share his experiences as to how Clark Construction benefited at the project level by implementing a mobile and web-based quality assurance and control solution and how LATISTA’s software made it possible. Given your important role in the industry, we would like to invite you to join this discussion with Clark Construction and LATISTA.

We are excited that Clark Construction joined forces with LATISTA two years ago in the effort to streamline their construction punch lists processes, enhance their field reporting, and collaborate better with their subcontractors, owners, and other parties. Clark has implemented LATISTA Field mobile and web-based back office software in aggressive pursuit of its goals of total quality management (TQM), resulting in reduced costs, liability, and construction time.

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"Our inspectors have probably saved 20 hours a week on retyping alone. It's a lot easier to keep electronic records rather than shuffling papers," says Barton Malow Project Engineer Mickey Meredith about LATISTA Field, the construction automation system implemented on the Western Maryland Health System (WMHS) project. Barton Malow began using LATISTA to help streamline their punchlist processes, enhance field reporting, and improve collaboration with owners, subcontractors, and other parties.  They then used the system to track and install thousands of pieces of valuable medical equipment with photos and documentation needed for turnover.  The web-based and mobile software solution has not only saved inspection time but has also helped reduced costs, liability, and construction time.

Meredith shares his experiences as to how Barton Malow benefitted at the project level by implementing the LATISTA Field mobile and web-based field automation solution on WMHS, where quality and accuracy were critical to project success.  This implementation is interesting as well from a collaboration standpoint as Barton Malow will hand LATISTA and several tablet computers over to WMHS to use for building maintenance once construction is complete.

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30 minute webinar on how LATISTA Field integrates with TEKLA Structures BIM models.  Includes a walk through of the use of items and statuses for QA/QC, Materials and Production Tracking.  Information from the BIM model is ported into LATISTA Field for tracking and inspections and statuses are ported back into the BIM model to show visual progress of production.

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A 60-Minute In-Depth Look at LATISTA's "Visual Punch List" and Subcontractor Management Features from the Project and Enterprise Levels

As a construction professional you need to know how Brasfield & Gorrie is paying for automation and making money on their general conditions budgets alone!   By using the unique “Visual Punchlist” method, Brasfield & Gorrie has used Latista Field to cut time in the field spent on inspections drastically by 33%.  In addition to this, you will save significant time in the trailer creating reports and managing subcontractors which results in further time savings and reduces rework significantly.

We are excited that Brasfield & Gorrie joined forces with Latista two years ago in the effort to streamline their construction punch list processes, enhance their field reporting, and collaborate better with their subcontractors, owners, and other parties. Brasfield has implemented Latista Field mobile and web-based back office software in aggressive pursuit of its goals of total quality management (TQM), resulting in reduced costs, liability, and construction time.

Steve Gilbert, IT Operations Manager at Brasfield & Gorrie, will be joining us for a webinar for industry executives scheduled for March 25 at 2 p.m. ET. Steve will share his experiences as to how Brasfield benefited at the project level by implementing a mobile and web-based quality assurance solution. He will also introduce the concept of "Visual Punch Listing," which uses LATISTA software to illustrate construction issues with photographs for clear documentation and communication. Given your important role in the industry, we would like to invite you to join this discussion with Brasfield & Gorrie and LATISTA.

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Problem: "Part of what makes government work so unique is some of the blast requirements that are put on the buildings. In this case we had steel tubes in the building's exterior skin, blast-proof windows that faced the street, and other reinforcement requirements." - Project Engineer Scott Widmann

Pacific Beacon, a public-private condo partnership between the Department of the Navy and Clark Realty Capital needed to automate quality assurance and production tracking on its jobsite. The project team faced unique challenges as the four, 18-story towers had to meet not only the rigorous attention to quality that Clark gives all its projects, but also the military and government specifications for defense features like blast resistance.

Solution: Clark implemented LATISTA Field mobile and web-based automation software to save time and improve collaboration with the Navy. As a result, Clark finished the project 60 days ahead of schedule and turned over the first building with zero defects. To learn more, please join us for an informative webinar.

For this webinar, Project Engineer Scott Widmann will describe how Clark:

• Used LATISTA Field Production Tracking and QA/QC modules on mobile tablet PCs
• Consolidated information on the project's progress and quality with LATISTA Web
• Pinpointed and resolved issues early, increasing production rates and ensuring quality