High-school sprinters were taking part in track-and-field sports on terrazzo and tile, and cheerleaders were shaking their pompons to the scent of cafeteria pasta.
Working with a new construction material is always a challenge. That challenge rises exponentially when the material is part of a showcase building: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s new School of Freshwater Sciences.
While interning at J.P. Cullen & Sons Inc., Pete Scharenbroch brought up to his bosses an idea he recently learned about in a college class: Using new building information modeling or BIM to help manage construction projects.