Working Together: Compressed formats and interactive Webcasts speed digital document review

摘要

The word collaboration means "to work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort." As indicated by a recent Adobe survey (www.cadalyst. com/daily 110806), the AEC industry's use of digital collaboration tools may have waned somewhat in the past two years, and CAD files are reviewed in paper format more often now than they were in 2004, The article suggests some reasons, including security concerns, Regardless, I believe that the number of adopters and users of digital collaboration products will increase at an exponential rate in the near future, because transport of paper and people is becoming prohibitively expensive.