Flickr Friday! Valley View Casino Hotel
Check out our Valley View Casino Hotel Flickr set! Today’s Flickr Friday features Valley View Casino & Hotel, San Diego’s favorite casino featuring 2,000 slot machines, 26 exciting table games and seven delicious restaurants recently upped their ante in the gaming industry with the addition of a fabulous new boutique hotel. The new tower was built using the latest in innovative technologies and practices in the construction industry by General Contractor Swinerton Builders San Diego. The hotel tower was constructed on a steep hillside and the entire site for the development had...
Read MoreAn Interoperable Edge
Swinerton detailers and field crews gained similar advantage from the Tekla Structures/LM80 Handheld Software connection on a college campus renovation project in Grass Valley, California, located about 60 miles north of Sacramento. HMH Concrete Services (a member of the Swinerton Family of Companies) looked to demonstrate the power and potential of a new link between BIM and the Trimble Total Station on the college campus upgrade/renovation project in Grass Valley. The HMH Concrete Services team prepared the column bolt templates for the foundation within the Tekla Structures 3D model. Bolt...
Read MoreBIM Transitions to the Field in Honolulu
Our Waikiki Shopping Plaza Expansion project in Honolulu includes a brand new four-story addition that ties into the existing Waikiki Shopping Plaza, which must remain operable through the length of construction. Within the tight space, construction crews must add a 60-ft high, three-story steel building with curtain wall and exterior stone cladding and metal wall panels. The team is self-performing all concrete and providing layout and control for all major activities. Working with their subcontractors they created and coordinated the structural model using Tekla Structures. From that model,...
Read MorePushing BIM to the Field
Our Virtual Design and Construction team has applied VD&C technologies on 162 projects totaling more than 49.9 million square feet and a combined construction value of over $11 billion. We’ve adopted BIM technology and techniques extensively in the planning and design phase. Now, we’re working to realize the same value in the estimating, construction management and operational aspects to minimize duplication of effort and increase efficiency and accuracy between the office and the jobsite. The key for us in this transition is the move to Tekla Structures BIM software and Tekla...
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