{"id":5012,"date":"2012-12-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/dec\/10\/contractors-would-do-well-to-use-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T14:00:00","slug":"contractors-would-do-well-to-use-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/contractors-would-do-well-to-use-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractors would do well to use the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building contractors were told this week that cloud computing could make a huge difference to the construction industry, especially when it comes to project management. <\/p>\n<p>Autodesk, which develops some of the most influential design software such as AutoCAD and 3DS Max, claimed this week that the construction industry could use <strong>cloud hosting<\/strong> to power remote servers, given the nature of working on a building-site, an essentially rugged environment. <\/p>\n<p>This would enable an industry which has otherwise been slow in taking up cloud technology (mainly due to security \/ reliability concerns) to flourish, changing the nature in which projects are run.<\/p>\n<p>Autodesk senior VP Amar Hanspal thinks that the technology is now ripe for the construction industry to jump on board, just as they did for Building Information Modelling (BIM). <\/p>\n<p>Hanspal said that by using technology such as mobile phones, the work force could be reached and drawings, building models and instructions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building contractors were told this week that cloud computing could make a huge difference to the construction industry, especially when it comes to project management. Autodesk, which develops some of the most influential design software such as AutoC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}