Announcing SmartBidNet Integration with Barryhund Online Plan Services

COLLEGE STATION, TX (PRWEB) April 05, 2012

SmartBidNet construction bid software, a product of JB Knowledge Technologies, Inc., recently announced its latest industry alliance with fellow solutions provider, Barryhund Online Plan Room Services(OPS). Over 45 plan rooms across California, Montana, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and Washington use Barryhund’s OPS platform to distribute details of over 45,000 projects per year to general contractors andsubcontractors subscribing to each plan room. The integration between Barryhund and SmartBidNet, launching this summer, will connect project news from Barryhund’s plan rooms across the United States with private bidding in the SmartBidNet system.

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18 handy tablet apps for AEC professionals | Building Design + Construction

The SmartBidNet Construction Bid iOS App, a product of JBKnowledge, made a recent Building Design + Construction list of helpful AEC industry tablet apps for everyday design, construction, BIM/IT and LEED processes. 

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Cool Technology of the Week | JBKnowledge | Self-Assembling Structures

Not only does MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits have an awesome name, he also has an awesome vision, shared this past September at TED. He points out that while skyscrapers take an average of 2.5 years to complete, DNA can replicate rougly 3 billion base pairs in about an hour. Skylar believes the future is in our learning to manufacture such replication and self-guidance, so instead of building things, like DNA, we let them build themselves.

"There’s new possibilities for self-assembly, replication, repair in our physical structures, our buildings, machines. … Imagine if our buildings, our bridges, machines, all of our bricks could actually compute."

He explains that by decoding the complexity of our assembly processes, learning to program those sequences into materials, linking this system to an energy source for continuous operation, and having  a feedback system for error detection - we can create materials that construct themselves. In the video at the link below, he even shows some of the reconfigurable, programmable robots they've already managed to have do just that.

His explanation of gates and sequencing may make your brain hurt, but the implications of "self-assembly" are staggering to think about...

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The Jobsite of the Future | Construction Executive

from SmartBidNet.com - a product of JBKnowledge

Construction Executive Magazine | January 17, 2012 

The Jobsite of the Future  
By James M. Benham  

Thirty years ago, construction projects involved a great deal of snail mail, phone calls to landlines, stacks of blueprints and a few Rolodexes. Today, microwave-sized desktop computers are a fading memory, and customized project management software comes to the rescue at least once a day. There’s also a 40 percent chance readers will view this article on their smartphones.  

The construction industry wasn’t always so progressive. During the last 10 years, industry professionals started to see the benefit of paperless plan rooms and automated systems. Now imagine what technology will be used in the next 50 years. From holograms to self-sufficient robots, developing technology suggests what a construction site of the future might look like...

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SmartBidNet App Listed in ENR's Top Paid and Free Construction Apps

ENR asked Apple to query its developer community in a quest to help idenfity the most popular construction apps in the App Store. It was a tricky call...

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Construction Superintendent Showcases SmartBidNet & Cloud Takeoff Integration

from SmartBidNet.com

Constructech Magazine Discusses JBKnowledge's SmartBidNet Software Version 11

Building Your Bid
November 15, 2011
Bidding technology is evolving. Technology providers are adding new functionality in the software in order to provide both general contractors and subcontractors with more features to enhance the overall bidding process...

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JBKnowledge's SmartBidnet Software Awarded Construction Marketing STAR Award for Print Ad Campaign

Naperville, IL
November 1, 2011
The Construction Marketing Association (CMA), sponsor of the annual CMA STAR™ Awards and CONSTRUCTION MARKETER OF THE YEAR™ Awards, announces 2011 award winners.

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November Speaking Events - JBKnowledge President James Benham

Our President travels North America speaking about technology and its role in today's construction industry. Find out where he'll be speaking this month.

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October Speaking Events - JB Knowledge President James Benham

Our President travels North America speaking about technology and its role in today's construction industry. Find out where he'll be speaking this month.

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September Speaking Events - JBKnowledge President James Benham

Our President travels North America speaking about technology and its role in various industries and medias. Find out where he'll be speaking this month.

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Mobile Technology in Construction

The two most well quoted predictions in the mobile device industry are:
1) 50% of American mobile users will own a smartphone by Christmas 2011
2) One in three of Americans will own a tablet PC by 2015

comScore statistics from June 2011 show that with only a few months left until Christmas, the amount of smartphones users is only at about 34%. And we’ll give prediction 2 at least a year or two before cross-examining, but note that as of June 2011 still only 8% of Americans own tablets.

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