St. Anne’s Episcopal School in Denver, CO just finished the construction on their Lower School addition. The construction of the new two story addition was designed by Hutton Architecture Studio and built by GH Phipps.  Durring the construction process a time-lapse camera was placed on the roof of their existing building to capture a time-lapse of the construction. The following video shows the entire construction process from start to finish:

Out door motion cameras like the Stealth Cams are a great product to use for capturing time-lapse construction progress. They are relatively affordable, durable, and simple to operate. For more information on how to set up a Motion Camera on your project along with some tips check out my previous post about = Motion Cameras.

During construction the school also shared updates of the progress with their faculty and parents. This was a great way for everyone to get progress updates. = Lower School Construction Photos
Congratulations to all the project team members for a great project and wonderful new school. (more…)

The Colorado School of Mines has been using JobSiteVisitor to organize, manage, and share their construction progress photos for the Brown Hall addition they are building. We recently created a short stop motion video showing the process of taking construction progress photos and the time-lapse that is created. Enjoy…

Our good friend, Devin Blea over at Gabriel Todd LLC, is currently building a great underground dome house in Denver. Devin’s been using JobSiteVisitor to share the construction progress photo updates of the construction with his client. Below is a link where you can view the latest progress photos that have been uploaded. Be sure to enter your email address in the “Sign up for Email Updates” box if you want to watch the construction as it unfolds.

Dome House Progress Photos

The geothermal aspect of this house and the unique underground construction makes is a great project watch.  We’ve selected it as a featured project.  Here’s a quick video with more info:

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There was a great article in Fast Company a while back talking about McDonald’s Makeover

Basically, the giant clowns and fiberglass booths are being replaced with things that are modern and relevant over at McDonald’s. They’ve decided to allocate at least $2.4-Billion dollars to make over 1,600 restaurants and build another 1,000 more modern restaurants.  That’s a lot of remodeling and construction work! Weather you love McDonald’s or hate it, there is no denying that it’s a money making machine.  The executives over at McDonald’s know a good thing when they S$$ it. Here’s what happened, over in Europe franchise owners were integrating modern design into their restaurants. These more modern stores were experiencing 6-7% higher sales compared to other traditional stores. One example was the McDonald’s built in Paris next to the Louvre. As you would expect not all of the french were pleased with the Louvre’s new neighbor, especially the art historian (read about it here). Regardless, this store was making money.

When building this McDonald’s the franchise owner focused on two important things, #1 Provide a better food selection and #2 Building a modern looking Restaurant. Even though there was a lot of protest against this store, it’s been experiencing better sales than other traditional stores. It also helps that France is McDonald’s biggest market outside of the states, but don’t tell that to the Louvre’s Art Historian. They secretly love their “Royale with Cheese”.

With these more modern restaurants making more money than traditional stores McDonald’s decided to do a little testing in LA and New York and found out that Americans also like eating in nice restaurants and spend more money per transaction in stores that have good food and a modern look. This shouldn’t be a huge surprise but it was probably a good idea to do a little testing before dropping $2.4Billion on renovations across the world.  McDonald’s experience with Chipotle also helped provided some assurance that modern looking fast food restaurants can be profitable.

It’s good to see large companies other than the federal government investing in infrastructure. It’s probably been 10 years since I stepped foot into a McDonald’s. After reading Fast Company’s article I noticed that the McDonald’s up the street had just undergone its make over. I thought I’d try it out and I must say that the 1/4 pounder with cheese did seem to taste better in the modern looking restaurant.

On a business note, if you pick up one of these renovation projects or new stores and want to share some progress updates using JobSiteVisitor.com let us know and we’ll get you set up with one of our Free Subscription packages. Happy Meals Trails.

We’ve recently helped the City of Denver share progress photos with the general public on their Central Park Blvd. Project. The city has integrated our photo hosting platform into their existing website resulting in a simple easy to use service that helps them organize, manage, and share progress updates. The city is able to provide current updates on their new project with-out the hassle of updating city pages every so often. The service gives the construction mangers on site the ability to upload progress photos into the system. These same photos are then made available to the public through project links on the city’s site.

The City has provided a link from their website over the progress photos that are being managed on JobSiteVisitor.com. Try it out, click on the city’s website to the left and select the JobSiteVisitor.com icon. It will take you right into the progress photos over on our site. It’s that easy, with just one site update providing a link to JobSiteVisitor, progress photos can be updated and maintained during the entire construction process without spending time and money on a web developer.

One of the other great things about our service is the advertising feature. It allows users to give ad space to the project team. These are not random ads that you can’t control. These are specific ads and logos that you want displayed next to your project. It’s a nice way to give an owner, investor or contractor some recognition.

The city has also elected to make their project available to the public so our Twitter and Facebook links appear in the lower left corner. This allows users to share updates through their social network. The project has already uploaded 36 weeks of photos and its proven to be a very easy way for the city to track and monitor their project’s progress from start to finish.

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