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iBlueprint For Apple devices, this has a new user interface that lets users create and export custom floor plans and lets contractors access blueprints on jobsites.

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360 Panorama Allows not only panorama shots, but actual 360 degree views of the user’s surroundings.

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PlanGrid A free construction app that lets contractors and architects collaborate with all their project plans, specs and photos on the iPad. Upload your PDF drawings to plangrid.com and they will

automatically sync to all your teams iPads in real time! Any markups you make can also easily be shared with everyone on your construction project.

Construction MasterPro The app offers a range of calculators for

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smartphones and iPads, including feet-inch- fraction math calculators, and a version that can be used to estimate materials needed for stair railing and fence projects.

Stud Find An iPhone application that uses the device’s built-in magnetometer to find metal studs, screws, nails and anything metallic in a wall.

Price: $24.99 (Pro)

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Crit Designed by Morpholio, this app allows designers to communicate by texting imagery. It provides pop-up notifications and texting interface and retains the discussion thread

Quikrete This app provides professionals distinctive paths to the relevant information they need for a specific job at the right time. With one touch, contractors can access a product’s technical specifications, calculate product quantities, and

between users. Users can import photographs from their smart device’s image library, camera, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Morpholio account and then send messages to other users without sharing cell phone numbers.

even find the closest store to a job site.

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Fieldwire A planning app that makes it easy for foremen, project managers and superintendents to collaborate while they are in the field. The organizational app lets crews look at the latest set of plans and share critical information such

BUILD YOUR OWN APP Many companies are customizing apps in-house or hiring outside developers. Tailored apps can provide greater customization based on type of work done, specialty services offered or function as tools to enhance already-established workflows. Gilbane (Providence, RI), a construction management firm, designed iBuild, a proprietary system of mobile and web-based software that manages projects. Gilbane also integrates mobile apps into end-of- project materials, giving clients catalogued digital files that can be integrated into mobile 3D modeling tools.

as photos and punch lists.

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