At Facebook Inc.’s sprawling 57-acre campus in Menlo Park, Calif., construction professionals met with Silicon Valley technologists in mid-November to discover ways to improve the AEC industry, all in one weekend. Though a first for the construction industry, this kind of innovate-or-bust meeting is popular in the tech world and is known as a "hackathon."
“This is a starting gun for innovation,” says Paul Doherty, who co-founded AEC Hackathon with Damon Hernandez, a 3D web, virtual and augmented reality developer.