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At Esri’s Infrastructure Management and GIS conference, held in Palm Springs, Calif., Oct. 28-30, large utilities such as PG&E showed off how they were using geographic information systems when working with contractors and design firms as consultants to help them manage maintenance and asset needs.

As construction technology providers continue to invest in artificial intelligence-enabled workflows, contractors continue to demand greater interoperability between the cloud platforms they use as well as integrations into jobsite-focused hardware and software.

Largest-yet deployment of startup firm's autonomous excavators helps with operator shortage on 130-acre manufacturing site.

Start-up aiming to build massive pneumatic guns to launch payloads into orbit plans to build working prototype at Nevada site.

$1.7-million USDOT grant bolsters efforts in Colorado and other states to bring autonomous vehicles to road crews.

Employees with access to ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot have already built hundreds of AI-based agents to improve company workflows

Procore new terms of service ban buik downloads of construction data from its platform for training artificial intelligence large language models. Trunk Tools says it was not allowed into Procore's new marketplace despite changes in data collection. 

Kiewit, Black & Veatch and Aecon picked as design-builder for first four units, estimated as $2B project, with AtkinsRealis as owner’s engineer.

Purchase of workforce, safety and productivity management platform Genda will expand new parent's data tracking offerings.  

While other companies have AI capabilities integrated into browser-based design tools, Bluebeam uses its position in PDF-based environments to build AI automation onto stamp and signature-based workflows.