Mobile Devices Are Key to BI in Construction Stats: Construction Industry Dead Last in IT Spend Gartner Research: Big Data Trends How to Avoid e-Discovery Disasters With Big Data Tools (subscription only) Linked Data Working Group Website Dig into the master schedule on any major construction project and you will likely find plenty of examples of big data.
Construction IT Managers Eying Microsoft Surface Pro Release Mobile Devices Are Key to BI in Construction Gartner Stats: Big Data Trends in 2012 Construction companies with less than $250 million in revenue invest about 1.6% of it on information technology, according to Gartner Research. Meanwhile, construction firms with $10 billion in revenue on average spend only 1.1% on IT. The construction industry is dead last in IT spending compared to 14 other industries measured by Gartner.
Courtesy of Trimble Trimble's new touchscreen tablet allows users to type, pan and zoom with fingers, a stylus or heavy gloves. Related Links: ENR Mountain States: Trimble HQ ENR Mountain States: Tablet Technology Trimble, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based advanced technology systems maker, saw a record 3,500 attendees from 80 countries during its sixth annual Dimensions event held Nov. 5-7 at The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The conference consisted of 480 sessions focused on increased field and office productivity through Trimble hardware and software in a variety of applications from heavy civil and building construction to mapping and surveying.Among
Related Links: ENR Mountain States: BIM Use ENR Mountain States: Optioneering Use of building information modeling has grown from 28% to 71% in the construction industry in the last six years, and the profile of BIM users has also seen a major shift in the last three years, according to a recent McGraw-Hill Construction survey. In the first and second BIM SmartMarket Report research studies, published by McGraw-Hill Construction in 2006 and 2009, architects led the industry in BIM use by a substantial margin. In the most recent study conducted this fall, not only has the gap between players in
Photo Courtesy of Bentley Systems Related Links: Trimble and Bentley Strategic Partnership Press Release Winners of Bentley's Be Inspired Contest A software vendor's sustained focus on collaboration is paying off for infrastructure developers across many sectors with the evolution of a collaboration ecosystem built on common tools and philosophy.Bentley Systems Inc., Exton, Pa., presented a bevy of new product and acquisition announcements and project awards at its annual "Be Inspired" conference in Amsterdam on Nov. 12-16. The event is for invited power users of Bentley's array of infrastructure design and development software. While most announcements focused on specific sectors—ranging from
Related Links: Gehry Tech Launches Latest BIM Collaboration Tool Gehry Technologies Website Tallest Residential Tower in NYC Is Frank Gehry Demystified (subscription only) As chief technology officer of consultancy Gehry Technologies, Dennis Shelden spends a lot of his time talking with clients, design professionals and students about the profound changes that technology innovation is bringing to the computation and design disciplines. He would know. Shelden holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Design, a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Ph. D. in Computation and Architectural from MIT, where he also teaches design and computation.But even
As ships get bigger and faster, their wakes are putting increasing stresses on moorings of nearby vessels, causing some to break free—with potentially disastrous consequences. Now, an international group of organizations has gathered in the Netherlands to develop software to calculate and mitigate wash effects of passing ships to improve port design and operations.With the three-year Research on the Passing Effects of Ships (ROPES) project now two-thirds finished, engineers in Rotterdam plan to validate it with a final set of full-scale ship trials later this month. The Port of Rotterdam is one of 26 organizations— including design firms, other port
E-mail courtesy of Curtis + Ginsberg Architects E-Cards: Firms communicated their status by sending out mass e-cards to their clients and business partners. Related Links: AIA Disaster Assistance Program Temporary Facebook Page of Perkins + Will With NYC Tower Crane Secure, Plan Shifts To Recovery Many design and construction companies affected by Hurricane Sandy harnessed the powers of technology to serve their clients and remain operational in the aftermath of the storm.Investments that paid off the best were virtualization tools and cloud-based private networks, say some firms. To communicate, most firms rerouted e-mail, sent out mass e-cards (see example at
It fell to me this fall to update ENR's business continuity plan, and, as I needed to leave our New York headquarters and head to coastal North Carolina in late October to deal with some family matters, I was intent on finishing before I left. It turns out to have been a very good thing because all hell broke loose just as I drove away.Hurricane Sandy caught us with a devastating left hook that kicked ENR out of its midtown Manhattan office during press time, sent server teams scrambling to rescue our operations as the scattered members of the editorial,
Photos for ENR A graphic of a crowd-sourcing model is used to find solutions to industry problems by asking creative thinkers from other industries. A group of Ph.D students in Great Britain and a Canadian construction company both launched separate global crowd-sourcing tools in late October. Both sponsors define crowd sourcing as the harnessing of knowledge that people from different backgrounds and professions can share on social media to leverage problem-solving solutions. "We can advance the industry a lot further and faster and have a lot more volume of innovation if we embrace the crowd," says Chris Zakrajsek, web application
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