Despite the high-tech robots and building-size 3D printers being pitched at ENR’s FutureTech Conference on March 14 in San Francisco, one group of building experts presented a vision of the future that involves something a bit more old-fashioned: teamwork and communication.
“We have a lot of great technology and have made a lot of shifts in process, but as an industry, we haven’t made a shift in paradigm,” says Jim Bratton, engineering manager, virtual design and construction with Dynalectric’s Los Angeles office. “We haven’t truly embraced the possibility to squeeze the potential out of all this [technology].”