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I just toured the newly built headquarters of a financial corporation. Our guide, a M&A specialist, boasted that they have completely removed paper from their offices. Could paperless construction become feasible any time soon?\u00a0PaperLight<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a portable smart board that could replace paper drawings on many occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rollout, Inc.<\/strong>, the developer of PaperLight, says that 90% of contractors still use paper plans. AEC firms spend, on average, $1600 per employee on printing annually. Over 37 million construction drawings are printed every year. Finding a usable solution that reduces these numbers makes economic sense. Even more so if you consider all the costs of errors that result from using outdated paper drawings.<\/p>\n Some contractors already use tablets, but they are typically personal devices. PaperLight is a portable smart board that has a touch-enabled projection display. It projects the image on a 32 by 24-inch surface. The device connects to your laptop so that you can -among other things- draw sketches, make new designs, and view, markup, and share AEC drawings and models. The image is large enough for team viewing. You can also project the image on a wall.<\/p>\n PaperLight picks up changes made with styluses or fingertips. You can zoom in and out with your fingers, just as you do with a tablet. It allows you to work with any software, e.g. Photoshop, Autodesk AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Revit. Coupled with cloud-based communications it allows real time collaboration.<\/p>\n The device is shatterproof, water-resistant, and portable. It weighs 20 lbs and uses It uses a regular 100-240V, 50-60 Hz power supply, so you don\u2019t run out of power during an important meeting.<\/p>\n Rollout Inc. has launched a crowdfunding campaign<\/strong> that ends on May 7, 2016, at 6:00PM CDT. If you want to support, do it now at https:\/\/www.spurstartup.com\/paperlight!<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a video that demonstrates the capabilities of PaperLight: