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.
"Data-driven design" suggests an impersonal, robotic process that replaces human creativity with cold numbers. But at our latest BuildIdeas Breakfast, we learned from IBM Watson and Detroit Mercy Hospital that it can mean greater customer satisfaction.
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.
If cities will yield the richest data upon which tomorrow's most consequential decisions will be based, then it is no surprise they were a recurring topic at last week's BuiltWorlds Summit. To see some of the actionable insights that were shared, read on.
Just days after the former First Lady urged architects not to neglect inner cities, she and her husband came home to Chicago this week to reveal their vision for a $500-million community hub that they hope will reinvigorate a long-struggling community.
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.