Construction Document Search Archives

4 Ways Your Business Causes You to Miss Project Information (and How to Fix it)

February 11, 2022

Missing project information, especially important updates, is a major culprit of project rework. One that is so common that trade contractors often...

Leveraging Document Search Towards Your Project’s Cost Control Efforts

March 12, 2021

If you saw the title of this article and thought, “What does document search have to do with my project cost?” I want you to keep reading. Messy...

DADO Intelligent Search Tackles Lean Construction

February 18, 2021

Intelligent search is a new paradigm reducing waste of time and effort to provide greater project value. If you are familiar with lean construction...

Is Intelligent Document Search like GPS? DADO Debates.

February 2, 2021

During a recent conversation with a VDC Director from a large general contractor based in California, he compared DADO to GPS. Disputing the merits...

3 New DADO Product Features to Kick Off 2021

January 22, 2021

We are so relieved 2020 is in the rearview mirror. In spite of it all, there’s a silver lining to last year’s craziness, DADO is able to kick off...

DADO Document Search Gains Traction with Contractors in 2020

December 17, 2020

At Autodesk University 2019, DADO launched its search engine for construction to the community at large. Since then, it has been a topic of...

Student Interview Provides Valuable Insight on ConTech Possibilities

December 10, 2020

At DADO, we’re interested in learning from students across the construction industry. Whether they’re entering the industry out of high school...

The Biggest Problem with CTRL-F Part 2

November 12, 2020

In Part 1 of “The Biggest Problem with CTRL-F,” we walked through some of the reasons CTRL-F often stops short of giving us the search results we...

Meet the Sergey Brin of Construction Document Search

November 5, 2020

In this post, DADO's Emily Heppard interviews Ryan Grimm, DADO’s Head of Architecture and “Search Wizard.” Read the conversation below to get insight...

Your Worst Nightmare About Document Search Comes to Life

October 29, 2020

Picture it. It’s 8 pm, a pitch-dark night, and the wind is howling outside your construction trailer. Everyone else went home hours ago. They’re...

Effective Electrical Document Search Requires Identifying the Problem

October 1, 2020

If you caught our last blog post, you read about the ways in which CTRL-F can fail us when we’re trying to locate the documents we need. It can be...

The Biggest Problem With Ctrl F And How You Can Fix It

September 27, 2020

Search is second nature for us when we’re on the internet. Google has reinvented the way we access information- we don’t head to the bookcase for an...