New Crowd-Sourcing Platforms Offer Cash For Solutions to Construction Problems
A group of Ph.D students in Great Britain and a Canadian construction company both launched separate global crowd-sourcing tools in late October. Both sponsors define crowd sourcing as the harnessing of knowledge that people from different backgrounds and professions can share on social media to leverage problem-solving solutions.
"We can advance the industry a lot further and faster and have a lot more volume of innovation if we embrace the crowd," says Chris Zakrajsek, web application manager, EllisDon, Mississauga, Ontario, whose construction company funds Uprising, a website and new mobile application that presents challenges to the construction industry and offers cash for usable solutions.