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Tracy Young had enough project smarts and technology vision to create PlanGrid, a now widely used cloud-based platform that has transformed field-document handling and brought an eye-popping buyout price from software giant Autodesk.

Frustrated by the state of sensor platforms for tracking jobsite conditions, Mark Bryant set out to build his own.

Growing up in heavy construction, and running projects for his dad during summers, one thing Gregory Penza says he learned is that the only way to compete in construction is to come up with new and better ways to do things.

Last month, Megan Kreiger spent more than a week at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, 3D printing a 32-ft-long reinforced concrete footbridge.

The successful demonstration of safe operation of an inspection drone by a pilot located miles away and beyond visual line of site will help the Federal Aviation Administration develop rules and guidelines for routinely permitting commercial inspection flights in the future.

Drones provide unprecedented access and new techniques allow extensive analysis, but final decisions still call for a trained human eye

Scott Borduin recently sat down with ENR in Autodesk’s Boston BUILD Space to talk about collaboration, manufacturing, robotics and collecting data with sensors.

In an effort to boost infrastructure project success, Bentley Systems has rolled out several new strategies for improving digital workflows to take projects all the way from concept to operations and even decommissioning, including a new digital twin cloud service dubbed iTwin Services.