Recently we featured the Uba Dome house that Gabriel Todd LLC is building. During the video shoot we made a stop motion video showing how easy it is to take construction progress photos to share on JobSiteVisitor. If you’ve “Got Construction Photos” be sure to upload them into JobSiteVisitor, keep them organized, and make them easy to share. For more information about the service visit our About Page.

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:

If you’re interested in getting your JobSiteVisitor project profiled contact us.

JobSiteVisitor.com has released its new “Mobile Uploader” which allows users to upload content from any smart phone device or tablet directly into the tagging section of your JobSiteVisitor project. The service is very simple and easy to use, here’s how it works. We provide you with a unique email address for each project. You enter that email address into your phone’s contact list. Then after you take your photo just send it to the email we gave you. The service is very easy to use and flexible so it can be used on any device.

More and more progress photos are being taken with mobile devices but it’s still a pain to organize, manage, and share these photos with your project team until now. With JobSiteVisitor’s new mobile uploader all you have to do is email photos to the address we provide you and the photos will be there waiting for you next time you update your progress photos. Here’s a video showing how the feature works, enjoy.

JobSiteVisitor.com is headed to Vegas for the 2011 CONEXPO-CON/AGG Convention taking place between March 22 – 26. We’ll be joining 2,000 other exhibitors at one of the country’s largest construction trade shows.

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More info to come.

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.