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How Southland Industries Seamlessly Connected Its Projects & Reduced Inefficiencies
Article | Construction Business Owner
We went from being a $300 million company to a $1 billion-dollar company. It was becoming unsustainable to really work with the data without some type of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution for engineering applications - Israel Sumano, Senior Director of Infrastructure Services
US contractor reaps the rewards of BIM cloud migration
Article | BIM +
The decision to migrate its BIM design teams to virtual workstations in the cloud has saved the major US engineer and contractor Southland Industries hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware and set up costs, said senior director Israel Sumano.
Government Facility Design
Article | Consulting Specifying Engineer
According to Mid-Atlantic Envise Branch Manager Jody W. Baldwin, “Technology integrators will in large part agree that one of the biggest trends affecting their scopes of work in the federal market is the trend to migrate away from proprietary automation systems toward agnostic or open products, protocols and platforms. A principal factor forcing this trend is the significant growth of technology and its incorporation into virtually every aspect of a built environment.”
National Engineering Firm Becomes Far More Agile With VDI via GPU Workstations
Article | architosh
“For our engineers and detailers to handle their workloads they needed to be local,” says Israel Sumano, senior director of infrastructure at Southland Industries, a design-build MEP firm that also does fire suppression. Sumano is making the case that proximity to construction sites is hugely beneficial for not just a design-build MEP firm but any firm. “Being able to go directly into the field to observe a situation or problem has great advantages,” he says.
Right Process Makes It Easy To Use 3D Modeling In Fabrication
Article | For Construction Pros
“Because we have design and constructability under one roof, we thought it was important on the construction side. With Revit, all of our people are working from the same system and the same model and the same source material,” says Judd Fuoto, lead solution analyst for Southland Industries.
How Long Before 3D Printing Disrupts Construction?
Article | Building Forward
“3D printing allows people to put something in their hands that’s tangible,” says Julio Saenz, senior manager of construction technologies at Southland Industries.
$1.5B healthcare project pushes envelope on lean practices, offsite fabrication
Article | Construction Dive
The 1.5 million-square-foot Penn Medicine Pavilion is the most comprehensive project on the East Coast to use an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach, which emphasizes collaboration among owner, architect and builder during design and construction.
2019 MEP Giants
Article | Consulting Specifying Engineer
Southland Industries was recognized as one of Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE) magazine’s 2019 MEP Giants. Southland was ranked #20 out of the nation’s top 100 firms providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection (MEP) engineering services.
Moscone Center Receives LEED Platinum Designation
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco’s Moscone Center, a Southland Industries project, recently received platinum certification from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the most widely used green building rating system in the world.
More Construction Firms See the Value of Lean
Article | Construction Dive
The drive for excellence means lean is a never-ending practice, said Southland construction manager Rob Delawder. “It’s called a journey because it’s a continual process.”