Design firms and construction companies absolutely should become technology companies, but becoming a tech company is much different than becoming a software company.
Construction firms that adopt technology to accelerate delivery can achieve real efficiency but if they aren’t also gaining insight from project data, they’re missing a major opportunity.
Educating staff about not opening themselves up to spearphishing and hundreds of other people-based threats, and also making sure that software and the equipment employees use that's connected to the 'net means today's construction IT departments must fight two very different security wars.
The top specialty contractors in the Midwest collectively performed nearly $10 billion in business last year, according to a preliminary version of our ENR Midwest Top Specialty Contractors list.
President Obama has nominated Maj. Gen. Todd T. Semonite to be U.S. Army chief of engineers and commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, according to military communications and industry sources.