The Industry Leaders Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers is evaluating submissions to a new contest that is soliciting ideas for transforming the future of infrastructure.
The 2015 JBKnowledge Construction Technology Report states that that less than half of the companies that responded could meet Europe’s soon-to-be-implemented requirement of delivering as-built BIM models of all construction projects. “Companies would have a hard time turning spreadsheet data into BIM,” states the survey.
The year in construction technology saw robots being used on more job sites in the real world, powerful data-aggregation applications adopted to save time and drones at work above many jobsites, despite lagging guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration.
ENR's Editor-in-Chief offers a tongue-in-cheek parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas" that looks at 12 construction trends she believes will be important in the coming year.
Before personal computers, cell phones, emails and texts, we used two-way radios for construction communications. Today’s technology is appropriate for personal communication, and I don’t want to denigrate its efficiency, but for construction, today’s tools don’t have anything like the powerful impact of two-way radios.
With no relief in sight from a Federal Aviation Administration requirement that all drone flights be overseen by licensed drone pilots, a San Francisco-based company that had been developing an autonomous aerial jobsite survey system is adjusting.
In a large conference room in The Venetian in Las Vegas, the chief executive officer and chief technology officer for Autodesk Inc. sat before a panel of reporters and got grilled with questions for an hour. No punches were pulled at this media Q&A at Autodesk University 2015 on Dec. 2. What follows are the highlights.
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