Industry publication, December 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

TRAINING president of marketing for LASER SCANNING Marinsoft Inc., San Rafael, INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC Calif. Preger says he and his TAKESAN EDUCATION MODELING THE LADY partners helped plan Auto­ With intelligent transporta­ desk’s building mechanical tion systems beginning to ; A TEAM FROM ■■■ I which is product, saw the niche and proliferate, systems engineer­ i Texas Tech ■HH I doing the filled it. “Its clearly not re­ ing is becoming a hot skill in ; University, HHH I work for the quired to have a Windows cal­ transportation planning— ; Lubock, is I park service’s culator when you can get a and online educators are , processing I Historic cardboard one for $6, but the right behind. ' data collected I American way it interfaces with the An online course offered I in late sum- I Buildings Autodesk products makes it by the Consortium for ITS I mer from I Survey pro- unique,” Preger says. Details Training and Education called Applied Systems Engineering : laser scans of ' the Statue of II Hill says are at www.marinsofi.com.

for Advanced Transportation I Liberty to ere- I the 110-ft-tall HARPWARE Projects, was new in June, , ate the monu- I statue and its upgraded in September, and ! mentis first as- I 150-ftped- TOUGH NOTEBOOK only requires a browser and a ; built drawings 9 estal was shot GRABS ATTENTION $325 fee. I of the exteri- I with 48 scans Intended to complement ; or, even as I from 13 sta- the Federal Highway Admin­ experts worry I tions. Now istration’s “Introduction to ’ about security |M|H I the team is Systems Engineering,” the i for the high- a I merging the course is designed to lead stu­ : profile structure. point clouds around sur­ dents through a logical se­ i Lady Liberty was still veyed references to create a quence of operations; discuss ; closed in late November, 3-D model, eight elevation planning, design and imple­ almost three months after line drawings and sample mentation processes; and ; the Sept. 11 attacks. During cross sections at 1-ft inter- integrate with legacy systems. I the assault on the World vals. The accuracy of the It includes a mix of participa­ Trade Center, the second of model is within X in. tory activities such as simula­ , the two hijacked airliners Without scaffolding, and tions, self-study quizzes and passed over the statue on its with a budget of only One of the happier vendors exercises. CITE is composed way into the south tower, $60,000, the team had to at the Computers for Con­ of universities, associations : witnesses report “It went work from the base. Areas struction trade show in Phil­ and private firms providing right over the statue,” says that could not be scanned adelphia in mid-November comprehensive ITS training Diana Pardue, chief of the will be filled in by airborne had to be Bill Patterson, a and education. 'Visit www.cite- museum service division on scanners or cameras. Scan­ sales director whose rugged consortium.org to register on the island. The event has ners were provided by Cyra notebooks were not only line or get further informa­ raised the significance of Technologies Inc., Oakland, drawing attention, but buyers tion. ‘ the project Calif., and surveying equip­ as well. ii HAWPHELPS “There was a dedication ment was provided by Cyra’s before, but now the sense is parent company, Leica The Hammerhead, which WalkAbout Computers Inc. there will be more fund- Geosystems, Norcross, Ga. A has been selling to utili­ CUSTOM TOOLS ing,” says Glenn Hill, direc- project Website can be ties and municipalities, costs FOR THE JOBSITE tor of Tech’s environmental found at http://www.arch.ttu- $5,000. It is wireless-ready, has Competition among vendors visualization program in the .edu/diptal_liberty. a 10.4-in. touchscreen, 256 MB selling data acquisition prod­ ; College of Architecture, By Tom Saioyer SDRAM and up to 20 GB hard ■ ucts for handheld devices is 1 . _ drive. It is offered with vehi- intense, but one product in­ for an introductory $99, but SOFTWARE cle-mounted or desktop docks g troduced at November’s Com­ requires a server module and and is built in cases milled puters for Construction trade licenses for the system that DUCT SIZING from blocks of aluminum in g show in Philadelphia had an will bring the tab to about PROGRAM FITS NICHE the WalkAbout’s own Singer unusual sidekick in a product $2,500 for a functioning set­ Software that calculates duct Island, Fla., shop. § line for building and deploy­ up. It is the platform for Pen- sizes for HVAC design and in­ The company only recently | ing custom mobile applica­ cel’s own Job Tracker, which terfaces with Autodesk’s Build­ approached the construction § tions. was introduced at the show. ing Mechanical product, but market, but response has been | I also works as a stand-alone strong. One customer was at | Kinectivity is a mobile data Job Tracker has formats for application platform and reports on daily activities, product in Windows, is now the plant the day after the s workshop from Pencel Corp., timecards, equipment usage, available on the Web as a free show ended to buy 10 units, | Overland Park, Kan., for installed quantities and job 30-day trial, with a purchase which it plans to lease to con- s drag-and-drop developing of progress. Price is based on price of $29. struction customers. See applications for the Palm sys­ number of users. Information “We’re going for volume,” www.walkabout-comp.com for g tem. The studio product sells is at www.pencel.com. explains Allen Preger, vice more information. g For more on Information technology, visit our Website, enr.com. DECEMBER 3, 2001/ENR 109

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