Yesterday, DEWALT, accompanied by Procore, announced their new WiFi Mesh, which promises to increase wireless connectivity on the jobsite. We talked to two DEWALT executives about the new product — here's what they had to say.
Estimating Market Manager Walter Davis explains how 5D BIM is speeding up the work of estimators, why it still hasn't caught on entirely, and how Sage's own software addresses some of the pain points associated with it.
BuiltWorlds' own Walker Thisted recently traveled to New York City, where he caught up with Roger Krulak,founder and CEO of Full Stack Modular, whom we first saw at the BuiltWorlds CEO Tech Forum back in 2016. We catch up with him to see what he's up to.
Want to decrease financial risk? BuiltWorlds contributor, Nate Budde, suggests to increase stakeholder visibility on your projects. Having access to this information, he says, will help solve these issues. Is it time for the industry to change its mindset?
Enterprise tech company FotoIN gave BuiltWorlds the exclusive story on some recent, exciting news -- their visual documentation and data capturing system received a United States patent! Find out what this means for the company, their users, and others in the industry.
Cofounder and CEO Walter Davis describes his company's software as "Slack meets Google Earth," with job-site data gathered from both aerial imaging and smart phones and sensors on the ground.
As the data center construction market is projected to grow to nearly $75 billion in the next four years, we explore what makes data center construction unique, trends in the industry, and the likelihood of keeping up with the exponentially increasing demand for these systems.
Innovations in drone, wearable, sensor, and machine-learning technologies are helping workers cultivate smarter data and create smarter approaches to issues ranging from safety to quality to productivity.
Taking its cue from the likes of Google and Apple, two-year-old, machine learning-based Smartvid.io is bringing speed and accuracy to the collection, management, and retrieval of field images—with results that have caught the eyes of Procore and Skanska USA, among others.
We asked executives from some of the top drone solutions firms: Where do you see the technology in three to five years? How will it improve? Change? Here a few of their answers.
There's a desperate need for upgrades and expansions at airports across the nation. Dwight Pullen, senior vice president and director of the Aviation Center of Excellence for Skanska USA, reveals some of the ways his firm's keeping pace with the increased amount of work.
The release of President Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan is still "up in the air" as the president's team strategizes on how to present it to congress. If the plan does go through, here are the five biggest projects in terms of investment on the administration's priority list.
The young company has created collaborative software that makes the Choosing by Advantages decision-making process—already popular with construction firms such as The Boldt Company and DPR Construction—easy and easier to explain to others.
Look, up in the sky! Since last June, there has been an unprecedented surge in the registration of commercial drone pilots. So, get ready. The FAA predicts the next five years will see a spectacular proliferation in the use of drones, on and above, jobsites.
In anticipation of our upcoming “Rise of the Machines Conference” on April 6, we take a look at a few of the participating firms working to mechanize and simplify the building process through a variety of innovations.
Estimating is one of the most tedious and revision-heavy aspects of the construction process, but a few new solutions, including model-based estimating, VR, and generative design, offer potential ways to speed it up.
Jack-of-all-trades Tim Sinclair is the new chair of AGC's Specialty Contractors Council. We talked with him about the group's growth and what he sees as a healthy surge in collaborative pre-construction between general contractors and subs nationwide.
Rob Simon, a finish lead at Lithko Contracting, talks to us about tackling high tolerance floors, which require a different technique to conventional slab placements.
At only 25 years old, Kari Hogeback has been able to rise through the ranks at a rapidly growing concrete contracting firm, Lithko Contracting. While we received many high praises from her colleagues, we gave Hogeback the chance to tell her own story.
The development of project management software, time-keeping applications, and bid-management programs has changed the way work gets done on the jobsite. We talked to Lauren Lake, co-founder of mobile punch list app Bridgit, about her impact and dedication to the industry.
An updated version of SAM100, designed by Construction Robotics, can lay bricks at a rate of 350 per hour, more than twice that of the original. It can also achieve configurations such as soldier courses.
While other young girls were playing with Barbies, Jen Suerth was designing the dolls' homes. This VP of technical services at Pepper Construction has always had a passion for design and building, and, through her experiences, she's become passionate in technology, specifically when it comes to leveraging it for the industry.
As you travel alongside vast, open plains, and giant turbines spread as far as the eye can see, have you ever considered how those wind farms are constructed? For you built environment vets, my guess is probably yes. For this National Women in Construction Week feature, Alexis Chastain spoke with Utopia Hill, Director of Project Management, Procurement and Construction at Invenergy.
To kick off National Women in Construction Week, BW reporter Alexis Chastain speaks with Silvana Lara, Fluor's global advanced work packaging and workface planning manager, about her dedication to her work, her team, and the industry overall.
President and CEO Tony Ragucci and Vice President of Product Development Victor Palmer talk about creating a tool, BIMtrace, that could revolutionize project workflow by allowing workers on job sites to link photos of the sites to BIM models to make direct comparisons and note issues.
A full 75% of respondents to a recent Dodge Data & Analytics survey have been slapped with a dispute claim in the past five years. Here are some suggestions on how to avoid one.
The BuiltWorlds team headed out to Las Vegas for World of Concrete 2017. If you've ever been, you know there's a vast array of things to cover. However, this year, we noticed the two big trends stemming from the tools and tech categories.
Since 2006, Charlotte Fara Francis has seen a world of change as CIO for the Associated General Contractors of America. We recently chatted with her about her unique role in helping to steer old-school contractors onto the information superhighway.
There's a lot of buzz around "Internet of Things." Where are we seeing it in practice in AEC technology today? Here are three examples.