“Ideas and solutions are the easy part,” says Ricardo Khan, senior director of innovation at Mortenson Construction. It’s “the process” that is the real challenge.
Khan’s midday keynote captured a key theme of the second day of the virtual ENR FutureTech conference—the need to identify the problems in your construction process before you start throwing technology at them. Speakers across the day went deep into the details of digital twin models and scanning jobsites with robotic dogs, but all of them touched on the basic rule that you have to know what it is you are after before deploying new technologies.