We love seeing the companies we've featured and worked with in the past (even since 2014!) roll out new updates and exciting news. Here's this week's community news round up.

BuiltWorlds recently chatted with Fifth Wall Ventures, the largest commercial real estate-focused venture fund to date, who can name industry heavyweights as investors. Here's why we shouldn't be surprised to see more big venture funds in the built world in the very near future.

We're capping off this week with another round up of news and announcements from members of the BuiltWorlds network. This week: PlanGrid, Procore, DEWALT, Caterpillar, CBRE, Mortenson Construction

A year after announcing plans to construct a city within in a city in Chicago's South Loop, Related Midwest begins to home in on potential uses to bring the mammoth project to fruition, with offices retail, multi-family housing, hotels, cultural venues, green space and a riverwalk figuring into the mix.

To cap off each week, we'll be rounding up news and announcements from members of the BuiltWorlds network. This week, see what Ozinga, Lithko, Triax Technologies, AECOM, and SoloInsight are up to.

Despite wavering venture investment, the clean energy market is still growing from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Here, the annual Clean Energy Trust Challenge gives us a welcome opportunity to check in on multiple, vibrant efforts to implement power innovation.

We collected more of the top soundbites from day three of BW Summit 2017. Click through for comments from thought leaders at Moderne Ventures, MetaProp NYC, Buro Happold, and more.

Our heads are filling up with all sorts of new ideas here on day two of BW Summit 2017. Check out this roundup of thought-provoking soundbites from just a few of the speakers sitting on our panels.

If Stan Pepper hasn't technically seen it all in the AEC industry, he has certainly seen more than most. We caught up with the Pepper Companies CEO for a preview of his opening keynote next week at the BuiltWorlds Summit 2017 in downtown Chicago.

Industry firms are frequently held accountable for issues because they can’t find the information they need to defend themselves. Between disputes and document discovery, these companies are often spending millions. Newforma's Tyler Ferguson offers a three-pronged approach to mitigate project risk.

When Amir met Roger... The two CEOs both spoke at our first BuiltWorlds Summit a year ago. Over dinner, they struck up a relationship that may soon merge the worlds of 3D mapping and modular construction, with benefits that may stretch much wider.

In a helpful infographic, Lendlease's Burcin Kaplanoglu reveals the questions he often asks himself when analyzing new technologies and opportunities in AEC and real estate, and he points out some of the challenges that tech companies face today.

What's changing? WiFi is a must, microgrids have yet to establish themselves — at least in Chicago — and ridesharing is emerging as a major disruptor, Kamin says.

After four hard-fought rounds of head-to-head voting, Construction Robotics, GRIT Virtual Construction, PlanGrid, and Zlien have emerged as the four construction startups who will get the chance to pitch their ideas to investors.

A pitch competition sponsored by Caterpillar Ventures, among others, awarded cash prizes for innovations ranging from automated permitting to autonomous vehicles. 

The delivery method contractually puts owner, designer, and builder on equal footing, requiring shared financial risk and reward while promoting collaborative decision-making that shaves schedule and budget.

Those who attended our first annual summit last spring need no persuasion. But this year's iteration of our signature event, returning May 3-5, will be even more compelling. Read on to see who will be here, why you should join them, and how to make that happen.

Sometimes, it's not the message, but the messenger, that turns heads. Such may be the case with new research from the World Economic Forum that highlights cutting-edge innovation and makes policy recommendations, all part of its Future of Construction Initiative.

As firms gather in Las Vegas this week for the 98th annual AGC Convention, for the first time they can stay on for a one-day Technology Summit. That simple addition is just one more example of how tech staffing and leadership are gaining leverage.

It isn't just glittering high-rises. In addition to Bechtel, other US-based, multinational firms are flocking to the Middle East to work on projects such as canals, oil fields, airports, and mega tourist attractions.    

During Pat Allin's time leading Textura, he partnered with Lex Greensill of Greensill Capital to create Early Payment Program, a supply chain financing solution for the construction industry. Now, as chairman of Greensill Capital, North America — USA, Allin provides us insight on how supply chain financing works and how he sees it progressing in the future. 

Carl Bass, the genial 3D-graphics pioneer who this century played virtually every leadership role in the Silicon Valley-esque soap opera at Autodesk, has resigned as CEO. SVPs Amar Hanspal and Andrew Anagnost now share that role as a full-on search begins. 

After detecting water intrusion and stress on electrical raceways, city inspectors have indicated that a permanent engineering solution is required for San Francisco's Millennium Tower. In the meantime, the building's homeowners association has hired a celebrity lawyer to take the developer and others to court. 

Funding for the Raiders' proposed $1.9 billion new stadium in Las Vegas has fallen through. In the meantime, the San Diego Chargers are proceeding with plans to co-locate with the Rams in a new $2.6 billion stadium in Los Angeles's Inglewood neighborhood.

When the Dow Jones topped 20,000 this week, it only confirmed what many in the AEC sector were already seeing: bullish optimism. Here, Brick & Mortar Ventures' Curtis Rodgers and others explain how that is helping to fund even more next-gen technology.

The $300 million deal demonstrates wider adoption of high technology in a sector that has been slow to embrace it. 

Disruption comes in many forms, and in this industry, investments are accelerating all of them. Here, Lendlease's Burcin Kaplanoglu offers an exclusive snapshot of the last two years in AEC tech funding and how that has fueled a continuing tech revolution.

Airbnb for construction equipment? That simple concept has continued to catch on among margin-wary contractors who are increasingly turning to each other to rent heavy rigs. Impressed VC firms are now betting big on that trend to really take off.

Lowry hopped over from the engineering side of Caterpillar, and now he's the transaction manager for Caterpillar Ventures. He sat down recently for a conversation about the investment group's strategies as part of a larger corporate entity.

New reports on Russian hacking and the safety of the US electricity grid have given an unsettling cyber start to 2017, leaving many cities, utilities, AEC firms, and others nervous. Here, we take a closer look at fear versus reality.