In 2018, EPC contractor TGE Top Down delivered a $112-million, 10-story, 621,000-sq-ft office building in Bangalore, India, using a patented top-down building system.

Top-down construction—assembling the floor of a building on the ground and lifting it into place—has long presented a possible alternative to the labor-intensive process of building steel frames, floors, walls and all components at height.

Aerial reality capture SaaS platform DroneDeploy has agreed to acquire StructionSite in order to strengthen its ground game. 

Autodesk explained the rationale for its new separate cloud services at its user conference, while a number of the company's technology partners unveil new integrations for their services.

Autodesk is working on an AEC-focused cloud collaboration platform, and says it will continue to push the industry to change its workflows and processes to be more data-centric and less process-centric.

As drone photography, reality capture and site scanning continue to grow in importance for contractors, so have the skills of the pilots.

When the city of Lenexa, Kan., this spring opted to move forward with a test pilot of “smart pavements,” it represented a vital step forward for electric vehicles.

Construction and technology often intermingle. One technology executive explains how he went from the former to the latter.

With $111 million in capital raised in 2022, reality capture startup OpenSpace is taking its 360° imaging technology to a global construction market.

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.