An industry consortium founded 10 years ago in Texas had a straightforward goal: to connect capital facilities owners and builders with the most promising emerging technologies for the improved delivery of their work.FIATECH begins its second decade with a sense that its mission is succeeding.
The name, coined in 2000, stands for Fully Integrated and Automated Technology for Construction. The organization has based its efforts from the start on coordinated research, pilot tests, demonstrations and implementation. It is seeing the effort pay off with individual trials connecting more and more often into systems, like open-source data-exchange standards and supply-chain management tools that are being adopted by the construction industry.