Dive summary:
- PlanGrid, an application that keeps construction teams on the same page by storing drawings in the cloud, is tackling the problem of call-out boxes getting orphaned.
- The software's latest version will use an algorithm to learn which boxes come from specific parts of the plans and will update them at the same time, though it will offer users an approval option to make sure it has made the right connection.
- Drew Westling, a senior project manager with Matt Construction Corp. in California and a beta tester for PlanGrid, says the new software almost never makes a mistake with the call-outs, and it's a self-teaching program that learns from the mistakes it does make.
From the article:
"The supers love it – and they aren't tech-savvy at all," says [senior project manager Drew] Wesling. ...