Day three at ENR's annual FutureTech conference was all about the data. Construction information from crane-mounted cameras and data-recording systems, parametric design programs and of course drones and laser scans are bringing more data to contractors and designers than ever before.

Better data may inform entirely new ways of building, as explored by Kurt Maldovan, global director of digital delivery solutions at Jacobs in his wide-ranging keynote on the state of the additive construction technology, also known as 3D printing.