With demand for construction equipment running high amidst a busy few years of construction, the hunger for new machines was visible at the triennial CONEXPO-CON/AGG trade show, held March 14-18 in Las Vegas.

In a recent webinar, construction experts from IFS and Bryden Wood discussed how converging technologies can deliver: cost and time savings, the ability to meet the modern challenges of construction and a sustainable way of working.

Automation is transforming the way AEC professionals work. Learn about three ways to improve productivity, cost control, and safety with automation.

With a tight labor market and construction still booming in many regions of the country, one category of worker that has felt stretched thin has been equipment operators.

The COVID-19 health crisis has changed the way most businesses operate. For those in construction, it’s underscored the need to maintain safe and efficient operations under anything but typical conditions. 

Contractor will jump from pilots to full deployment of a jobsite robotics platform developed with robotics startup NeXtera.

The pandemic has created new challenges. But it’s also accelerated the adoption of technologies that are helping AEC companies work safer, faster, and smarter. Read on to learn some surprising ways robotics are being used on the jobsite.

“Ideas and solutions are the easy part,” says Ricardo Khan, senior director of innovation at Mortenson Construction. It’s “the process” that is the real challenge. Khan’s midday keynote captured one of the key themes of the second day of the virtual ENR FutureTech conference—the need to identify the problems in your construction process before you start throwing technology at them

Boston Dynamics’ autonomous dog-shaped robot, Spot, is known for its ability to traverse complex terrain and is now being used by construction companies for inspections and LiDAR site scans.