by AF1013 c3 — October 16, 2009—The Blue Book of Building and Construction has announced a new, free service designed to help advance the bid communication process for construction professionals. Vu360 is a universal digital document viewer that enables users to easily view plans, specifications and other documents in .TIFF and .PDF formats, take measurements and add comments to the documents. Markups can be shared among the project team, facilitating viewing and response to RFIs (request for information).
Vu360 works with any online plan room (that supports .TIFF and .PDF files) as well as “offline” with files on a CD or saved to a computer. The Blue Book designed and developed this complete document viewer specifically for the commercial construction community. Vu360 is integrated with The Blue Book’s search tools so that users can easily find and spec products, materials and equipment as well as message vendors. Allowing users access to the Web directly from within their takeoff tool enables them to simultaneously look at a blueprint, examine a spec page and review a product Web page to determine if they want to bid the project and give direction to their project team all within their current workflow, notes the company.
For more information on Vu360, visit the Web site.
