I have finished reading the ENR cover story, Ten Electronic Technologies That Changed Construction, and wanted to send my congratulations to the multiple authors for accurately capturing the state of technology in our industry today (ENR 6/21 p. 24).
It is always a difficult task to capture all the details of any subject, let alone such a personal subject like technology. What one person cannot live without, another could care less about. Being that CAD may be critical to one group in our industry, another group may think that using Internet tools is a higher priority. Given the diverse and complex nature of our industry, writing about technology and its usage in an industry context is a formidable task to say the least. This cover story does the best job that I have read in a while of providing a synopsis, taking the temperature if you will, of our industrys true use of technology. I will begin to use it as a baseline.