From the course: Construction Management: Safety and Health
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Identifying hazards on digital drawings
From the course: Construction Management: Safety and Health
Identifying hazards on digital drawings
- If you've ever watched almost any of my other courses here in the online library, you might already know that I'm a huge fan of digital drawings. I think it's one of the biggest advances in the construction industry that we've seen in a long time and I think we're only just beginning to realize it and take advantage of it on a large scale. Even just the ability to carry around a small tablet instead of the heavy roll of drawings has to improve safety. But I'm going to give you one more reason to go digital. On a project that has completely adopted digital drawings, one like I showcased in our construction technology course everyone would be syncing the drawings on their device, their tablet or their laptop or even their phone with the master set being maintained by the project manager. This would be done frequently ensuring that everyone has the latest set of drawings. Now, at a minimum, this helps avoid rework which can reduce…