Second only to commercial real estate’s addiction to the fax machine, is the construction industry’s addiction to blueprints…

Enter PlanGrid. From a recent TechCrunch article:

PlanGrid is a cloud-based service that delivers blueprints as PDFs directly on the tablet; then people working in the field can use these instead of paper-based versions. When a modification needs to be made, that can be directly noted on the plan, in the app. That is subsequently updated into a new version. PlanGrid’s technology makes the rendering and scrolling of those blueprints significantly faster, too.

Product features include:

• Always have the current set with you, no matter where you are
• Page based versioning of drawing revisions
• Easily upload project files to your PlanGrid cloud account
• Calibrate and takeoff linear measurements
• Markup your drawings with the annotation suite
• Share your markups instantly with your project team
• Filter your drawings by system, revision, or however you’d like
• Take progress photos and pin them to your blueprints
• Attach 8.5×11 pdfs to each sheet for RFIs and specifications

Download the app: iPad