Visual Q&A

Now Apricon launches the Visual Q&A on a broad front. The cooperation with Skanska has resulted in a effective solution for management of issues and decisions when working with Visual design. The Visual Q&A has been tested in a number of projects for Skanska and features have been developed in close dialogue with their users. The service is now offered to all customers and several projects are already up and running.

The objective for the cooperation with Skanska has always been to create conditions for fun and effective meetings where the focus is on issues and decisions. With the Visual Q&A in Apricon meeting participants add their questions prior to the meeting. At the meeting itself, there is a clear flow for working with old issues, new issues, key issues and decisions. After the meeting taken decisions are documented in the decision log.

The latest version has new features to attach or link documents as well as a nice filter function which makes it easy to search in the question log and the decision log. This makes the digital benefits even better with clear communication and increased availability as a result.

Block Trollhättan. Illustration Yellon

Block Trollhättan 7 in Malmö is one of the projects using the Visual Q&A today. The Office building, which is about 12 000 m2 lettable floor area will be built at Universitetsholmen, close to the main train station and with a very nice view of the harbor. The buildings are built in brick with inspiration from old port warehouses.

Anna Björklund

“I have been working with Post-it notes for a while now and like working that way. But the fact is that the Visual Q&A is just as interactive and provides several advantages. You are able to write complete answers and attach files to the question which improves communication. At the same time, you get good documentation that is always available and that can be presented in different ways. ” Anna Björklund, Project Manager, Skanska Öresund AB

Brf Beach Promontory. Illustration T

Skanska is developing a new and exciting area in Tullholmsviken near Karlstad city centre and at the same time with a scenic location on the shore of Lake Vänern. Apartments in Brf Strandudden are planned to take advantage of the contact with water. Interest in the project has been very high from the start and all the apartments were sold quickly.

Fredrik Rydberg

“It’s very easy to get started with Visual Q&A, everybody understands right away how it works. No questions are lost and with the ability to attach files where you specify what is being requested makes the communication very clear compared to indicate doodles or explanations on tiny Post-it notes. It also saves a lot of time when the participants prepare their questions in advance. The analog version requires a lot of administration both before and after a meeting. ” Fredrik Rydberg, project manager for construction production, Skanska

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New Hospital Malmö. Two new health care buildings (green), new service centre (orange), placement for replacement facilities (yellow). Lines show the culvert system.

Over the next eight years Region Skåne invests six billion in the hospital area in Malmö. The goal is a modern hospital that is well prepared for future health care. Malmö Medical Center will get two new buildings, a new health care building, a new service centre and an extended culvert system under the ground. With the modernisation of the hospital area conditions are created for a high-quality and safe health care in the future. Development takes place in close work with the City of Malmö.

Skanska has signed cooperation agreement with Region Skåne in respect of the construction of the new health care building at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. The project places great demands on coordination as it consists of several different parts and to ensure that the day-to-day operations in the area will be affected as little as possible.

Staffan Andersson

Hospital building in the middle of ongoing operations is a challenge. The needs of the hospital staff, patients and visitors is extremely important to us. We want to build a hospital of the future without disturbing the daily activity in the area.
– Staffan Andersson, Project Manager for the New University Hospital Malmö, Skanska

Illustration of how the hospital area in Malmö may look like. The final design will be made by White Architects.

Apricon is used in the New University Hospital in Malmö. The project uses the feature in Apricon called  Linked projects to get increased availability and can seamlessly communicate new information across multiple projects.

Patrik Lambeth

Apricons easy user interface, the ability to control the design process effectively as well as ease of access for the production to obtain the correct documents makes Apricon the obvious choise.
– Patrik Lambeth, Project Engineer, Skanska

The Visual Q&A streamlines the design through focused meetings and minimal administration.

Jesper Bengtsson

With the Visual Q&A we get an effective design process with better coordinated actions and documents.
– Jesper Bengtsson, Project Leader, Skanska

Read more on Skanska’s home page
Read more on Region Skåne’s home page

The Visual frågetavlan can adapt to your way of working.

Now five pilot projects from Skanska have used our Visual Q&A for some time and the response has been very positive. One of the projects that switched over from the analog board to our digital variant is Kv. Norrland in Helsingborg. In doing so, they achieved more flexibility in the project and are not dependent on a specific meeting room. In addition, the design meetings are much more effective with meeting participants who submit their questions before the meeting’s start.

Jonathan S

The main advantage of using the Visual Q&A in Apricon is that the design leader saves time in managing the issues that come up during a design meeting. When meeting participants are required to prepare their questions before the meeting almost no administration at all is nessesary for the design leader.
-Jonathan Skoglund, Design Leader, Skanska

KV. Norrland is drawn by Jaenecke Architects.

Kv. Norrland is part of an urban renewal project in Helsingborg making the South side to extend even further South. Skanska has been commissioned by Magnolia Home to building the project which has modern architecture and includes 327 rental apartments spread over four buildings. Common to the four houses is the concept with an enclosed courtyard and loft resources due to tough sound volume demands with the Malmöleden and the Oljehamnsleden close by. The high requirements puts high demands on the design process and the project benefits a lot from the advantages of the Visual Q&A.

Apricon now offers the new module to all customers and several have already started using the Visual Q&A. This allows the development to continues at high speed and new applications will be presented during the year.

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The dialogue is something to take note of when you are signed in to Apricon. It will not create a nuisance emails in your Inbox, but each one can follow the discussion at their convenience. There is a function to display the latest posts on the home page so that everyone sees when written anything new. For important information that must reach out quickly, we recommend that you continue using notifications for “communicating”.

We know that the dialogue will be welcomed by many users. Some will be more involved with the creation of posts while many will benefit from reading them. It is also easy to comment on a post and initiate a dialogue-don’t miss the button at the bottom right-hand corner of each post!

It will be exciting to see how the feature is received and we’d love to have your comments.

In addition, the home page will be extended with support for dialogue, activity feeds and project information. These new features will work as tabs on the home page. The first tab will be launched, “dialog” that acts much like a “Facebook feed” for the project where everyone has the opportunity to write posts and comment. You will also be able to view the latest posts from the diary directly on the home page.

Another more social feature is the “my contacts”. Here you can collect contacts from your project and create a “shortcut” to those who you communicate with frequently. By creating a personal list of contacts, you can also keep them after the end of the project. All users will also be able to choose whether they want to be searchable outside of their projects. This will mean that you can search for people by name, company, city or profession.

We hope these new features will be appreciated by our users. Moreover, we are convinced that the new design will give a better first impression and enhances your experience of Apricon.

An important feature of the development will be to extend the user profile with a personal image that will be used in the contact list and in upcoming features. Below, you will get a sneak preview of our upcoming contact list.

So in the near future “appears” we in Apricon. The more profiles with picture all the more enjoyable!

On the contrary! We do this because we believe that you deserve our commitment and that you are going to have every opportunity to be heard.

The Web has become an integral and ever present channel of dialogue for many of us, precisely because it is also natural for us to be present! Of course, we will focus on what we can best and write a lot about what we are doing. Sharing our knowledge is our main goal with this blog.

Our hope is that you will find here if you want to know more about the project network, Web based document management and how you can simplify your project work. This will be available from the General reasoning of working methods to practical tips about our products.

Best of all, you can reach us with questions, comments or tips please do not hesitate to comment, like, please email or call for that matter!

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