Saw a new apartment building going up in Boise and the site office was just a tablet on a tripod

I was walking my route over by the Bench neighborhood last week and they're putting up a big four story complex. What got me was the site office, or lack of one. It was a small trailer, but the door was open and inside, instead of a huge desk covered in rolled up plans, there was just a single rugged tablet mounted on a metal stand. A foreman was tapping on it, checking something, and then he held it up to show a guy in a hard hat what looked like a live 3D model of a plumbing stack. He zoomed in, spun it around, and they both nodded. No paper at all. It made me think about how much stuff we still move by hand at the post office, and how that one screen seemed to hold the whole job. Has anyone else run a full site off just a tablet like that? What software even lets you do that without a full trailer of computers?

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grantm5712d ago

Honestly, what happens when that tablet battery dies or the internet drops out? Tbh that's a lot of trust in one piece of gear.

aarons3612d ago

Read a piece about pilots having paper backups for their flight plans, seems like a smart idea.