If one technology trend in a sea of buzzwords dominated the construction landscape in 2013, it would have to be information mobility, industry experts say—and with good reason.
The foundations of major mobility growth are in place: robust 4G networks to ferry project data around a jobsite, the advance of cloud computing networks to store and process data in the field, and the ubiquity of smarter mobile devices on jobsites these days. Using web-friendly software to manage their project documents in the field, contractors are counting real productivity gains on jobsites, and it's improving their bottom lines.