Construction companies face the same challenges as technology companies and must be willing to embrace new delivery means and methods for their services... just as Netflix embraced streaming over mail-delivered DVDs.

The focus of IBHS outreach in 2019 is calling out details of landscaping, construction materials, and the assembly of decks, roofs, siding, soffits and vents as ignition-point risks when seeded by wind-blown embers. It also is looking at the fire resistance of manufactured lumber, versus natural materials.

Despite advances in recent years in bringing digital data to projects management and oversight, a new report from Dodge Data & Analytics with Viewpoint Construction Software shows there is still a great deal of work to be done.

The latest Autodesk University user conference, held in London in June with an estimated 2,000 attendees, showcased some of the recent achievements in the automation of design and construction.

The Spot-R tag from Triax Technologies can monitor when a worker experiences a sudden fall and alert supervisors. Now its compatible with site access control technology for a clearer view of where workers are on the jobsite.

ENR’s annual conference draws a crowd looking for better approaches to data security and sharing, with an eye on cost

There’s a saying: “What gets measured gets done.”

In a bid to speed work on projects in remote sites and cope with labor shortages, Mortenson has  announced an agreement with tech start-up Built Robotics to expand the contractors deployments of fully autonomous construction projects on renewable energy projects.